Petition: The UK should ban the importation of Shark Fins. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3005… EU law allows individuals travelling to Europe to carry 20kg of dried shark fins for personal consumption. Our departure from the EU allows us to stop this #bansharkfinUK

Like a lost #farmland meander this little #marlpit #pond at Manor Farm, Briston, #Norfolk has inspired so many farmers to look after their own wetlands. We must not fill in any more ponds & for those that are left we need to cherish them #2020ponds

New preprint "Soundscapes predict species occurrence in tropical forests" We show soundscape features can be used to accurately predict occurrence of a wide range of bird and frog species (without knowing what they sound like! 🙉) biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

New paper out by HEEG UCL Anthropology!

Thrilled that some of my @kneppcastle field recordings of #nightingale & #turtledove appear on new album 'Rewilding' by the incredibly talented Richard Durrant Thoughtful & inspiring #music, a modern Tubular Bells for #nature! Details/tracks here: richarddurrant.bandcamp.com/album/rewilding Pls RT

My very first blog about the perils of plastic lawns...

Seasonal Tweet of some local mistletoe in it's natural environment... sadly no berries showing though.

Rewidling just got a spin on BBC 6Music, Radcliffe and Maconie. Nice one guys - glad you enjoyed Aurochs! You can find the sumptuous, limited edition vinyl and hi-rez audio files here: richarddurrant.com/product-catego…

Ask the Prime Minster to take direct action to stop houses being built on essential wildlife corridors including one linking one of the UKs most ecological sites @KneppSafaris with St Leonard's forest and beyond savewestgrinstead.eaction.org.uk/action Boris Johnson Robert Jenrick Horsham District Council

The #PinkHawthorn just across the drive is looking rather fabulous at the moment!

Under the new DEFRA metric brambles, ragwort and thorny scrub indicate degraded land. Much of Knepp would barely register for biodiversity. Something wrong there. Natural England @KneppSafaris

New biodiversity algorithm ‘will blight range of natural habitats in England’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Usually, people want to remove #wasp nests in their garden. Left mine alone & had lots of wonderful #hornethoverflies about this summer. Their larva live in wasp nests, eating up waste in return. Without wasp nests, no hornet hoverflies! ❤️ecology #lovewasps #givewaspsachance

Still time to get involved in the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household plastic waste by Greenpeace UK & Everyday Plastic! Count the plastic you throw away for 1 week (May 16th – 22nd), sign up here: bigplasticcount.com/sign-up Pls share!

Interested in #bioacoustics and #biodiversitynetgain? Apply for this PhD with Baker Consultants - Ecology and Ecoacoustics alexbush and Tom August envision-dtp.org/2022/deliverin… #PhdChat Lancaster University UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

How it started: installing acoustic recorders in Hainich National Park on a very rainy day in 2017 vs How it is going: new OA paper by Richard Beason on use of acoustic indices to study effects of tree diversity on bird species richness is out! 🌳🌲🎤🐦 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Four years ago, 261 contributors in 35 countries collected soundscape recordings to monitor local acoustic changes in urban areas during Covid. Very happy to announce our publication in Nature Scientific Data this week: nature.com/articles/s4159… Congrats to all #SilentCities team!