Rare chalk specialities side-by-side. Left-Tuberous Thistle, flowerhead base with hairs like spiders' webs and leaves with few spines. Right-Cirsium x medium, hybrid Tuberous/Stemless thistles with jointed plus a few spidery hairs & spiny leaves BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

A "pollinator garden" has appeared outside the Basingstoke branch of Tesco - with plastic flowers and artificial grass. Has someone missed the point here? #TwitterNatureCommunity #TwitterNaturePhotography

'Don't Visit Faroe': Campaign launched to boycott island over controversial whale and dolphin hunt #DontVisitFaroe euronews.com/travel/2023/07…

Flower heads of white umbellifer species can seem confusingly similar. Use seed/fruit, and in this case, leaf shape to hone ID. This is introduced and naturalised Longleaf Falcaria vulgaris BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Gold-of-pleasure is a fast-germinating, delicate brassica whose seeds are a source of vegetable oil. Look for it on the margins of fields where eg Flax is grown or, as here, as a component of birdseed.

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Colourful rockpool finds at Kimmeridge- seaslug Facelina auriculata (L) & polychaete worm Eulalia (R) DorsetWildlife Trust Naturetrek

Stunning display of sunflowers at The Rotherwick Patch near Basingstoke, alive with nectar-gathering insects. Stark contrast to the plastic 'pollinator garden' monstrosity in nearby Chineham

Thanks Phoebe Weston for inviting me to participate and for your thoughtful work, bringing these wildlife crimes to a much wider audience. I still smile when I think of you seeing your first hen harrier - what a moment! theguardian.com/environment/au…

Expect more of this thanks to government plans to relax water pollution laws, and appease the house-building developer lobby bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… Judge other political parties by their reaction to this news

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Housing developer Redrow and Basingstoke made the back cover of today's Daily Telegraph. For all the wrong reasons. Basingstoke Council

Labour-led Westminster Council Declares Ecological Emergency - Westminster Labour westminsterlabour.org.uk/issues/2023/09… maybe Basingstoke Council could learn a thing or two from Westminster

More bad news for Cufaude Lane's Common Toads - yet more proposed development nplsecondnature.com/2023/11/01/156… via Paul Sterry

More bad news for Cufaude Lane's Common Toads - yet more proposed development nplsecondnature.com/2023/11/01/156… via Paul Sterry

More bad news for Cufaude Lane's Toads in the Hampshire borough of Basingstoke Basingstoke Council Chris Packham

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