If anyone is of the view that the odd flooding incident might be a normal event, scroll back through tweets from @volcaholic to see how it is now a truly global phenomenon. We need an urgent programme of adaptation, including large-scale Nature-based solutions.

Another boring bit of pasture but so much alive in it and hard at work! Waxcap mycorrhizal networks, dung full of beetles, worms building casts and meadow ants filling their nest with vegetative matter, all actively improving the soil and in turn feeding other creatures! Bliss!

This is a reminder to include crab apple in your hedge planting mix She's a spiky lady so works well in a thorny hedge. This one was so thorny &dense its where the only nest in the hedge was Great layed into the hedge itself or left as a hedge tree Blossom🌸✅️ Fruit🍎✅️

Hebden Bridge is flooding 😢 if ever there was an example of why not to damage, drain and funnel water from gigantic hilltop peat bogs down into a valley - this is it. Really feel for all the small business owners and homes.

Nestled in the stunning Yorkshire Dales, Wharfedale Rugby Club is sporting nirvana—breathtaking views, a warm welcome, and rugby played the right way. 🌄🐏 #WharfedaleRugby #YorkshireDales

Enjoyed hosting Environment Agency - Yorkshire & North East Defra UK #fisheries #biodiversity #geomorphology #policy staff on tour of The Wild Trout Trust recent projects, incl @WoodlandTrust #Snaizeholme, #UpperAireProject @ Malham Beck and Otterburn Beck Funded via #FIP Salmon & Trout Conservation WY #KnowledgeExchange

Join us at the Citizen Zoo Rewilding Conference this January to hear from Benedict Macdonald and Peter Cooper on nature restoration and species reintroductions. 🎟️ bit.ly/3ByozA4 #rewilding #restorenature #naturerestoration #nature #environment #biodiversity

Need a Boxing Day break? Join us in Settle as the Foresters and 3rd team face North Ribblesdale's 1st & 2nd teams. Expect competitive, hard-fought action! 🟢🐏 #BoxingDayRugby #GreenMachine #WharfedaleRUFC

For hedges, capital grants cover: Planting Laying Coppicing Fencing Gapping up All of which are essential, all of which are currently on hold with the capital grants freeze. It's my biggest hope for 2025 that these are re-instated ASAP to reduce the wider damaging impacts: A🧵

Gylly's 2024 as my woodland creation assistant instagram.com/reel/DEkORjpNI…

A great day at Scroggs Bottom, Wensleydale, installing raptor nest baskets & a wild bee log as part of a #WoodlandCreation scheme! These will boost biodiversity by providing vital habitats for wild bees & birds. All paid for by the @WoodlandTrust's Grow Back Greener grant.

Fish are strong indicators of the health of freshwater ecosystems, with their populations responding directly to changes in water quality and quantity. 🐟 Read the full article by our Ecology Director here: bit.ly/4htqrJw #wetlands #fish #floodplains #ecology #nature

In Littondale & the Wharfe today, The Wild Trout Trust #AdvisoryVisit(s) for anglers & farmer. Brooding light, lots of oystercatcher ready to pair up, plenty of good as well as bad but not too much ugly to discuss and find solutions for.

With the announcement last week that RESTORE are teaming up with Wildwood Trust to launch the Native Invertebrate Recovery Centre (NIRC), now seems the perfect time to introduce our Species Ecologist, Peter Cooper. #naturerestoration #speciesreintroduction #ecologist #nature

Top end of another #Ure headwater looking to replicate The Wild Trout Trust project w/ #WoodlandTrust on #Snaizeholme wildtrout.org/wttblog/snaize… Huge opps to #SlowTheFlow by tipping whole trees into the beck, creating habitat & diversifying the channel #Wensleydale @YorkDalesRT #NFM

RESTORE’s Species Ecologist Peter Cooper was recently invited onto The Bearded Tit podcast to talk all things invertebrate reintroduction — a complex but often overlooked area of conservation. 🔗 spoti.fi/4jmWn3x #nature #environment #invertebrates #conservation #ecology