Nowadays, according to the Latinobarómetro survey, Venezuela's share of evangelical Christians is larger than Brazil's. Thus, it is not surprising that the Maduro regime has courted these churches and its networks before the 2024 presidential elections 🧵

Lapwing, once a familiar sight, birds breeding in spring sown arable and wetlands.

UK officials and institutions desperately in need of environmental training and capacity building are “unable to establish that the issues have crossed the threshold of a statutory nuisance”. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Just back home to a review copy of the new WILDGuides 'Larger Mammals of South America' from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s—that's still 420 species larger than cavies / smaller opossums. Impressive effort to fill a vacant field guide niche. Princeton Nature #PUPintheWild

The dawn chorus in #Cambridge is strikingly quieter this year. How is it where you are? I share some thoughts on what might be going on in this piece for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

An auspicious start to the week. Just below freezing with a hard ground frost. A pair of Stonechat and Shoveler seem to be looking to nest. And the first garden Willow Warbler for two years, now a passage migrant rather than (formerly) breeder.

If the current trajectory continues, the era of 'semi permanent' snow in Scotland would be over. We will be looking at an era where snow persists occasionally: a 180 degree flip to how it was just a few decades ago. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. (4/4)

I've only ever heard despots, authoritarians and reactionaries use the phrase 'the will of the people'. And now this conspiracy crank. His is the only account I've ever blocked, but I still can't avoid my feed being tainted by his puerile musings.

Like most matters surrounding Johnson and Maduro, this stinks. I would start asking hard questions of the people at the Aspinall Foundation.

Have you seen this bird? Curlews that were headstarted in 2021, 2022 and 2023 might be returning to Norfolk and surrounds to breed! 😃Please report any Curlews you see with yellow leg flags 👉 curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk/report-a-sight… #Ornithology #BTOScience #Tracking #ConservationScience #Curlew …

A really good overview of net zero & energy policy crammed into about an hour. Refreshing to hear someone pointing out that biodiversity loss is at least as important—politicos just don't seem to get it. We should be clear that one can be hopeful without being optimistic.👏👏👏

Doing ecological studies during a biodiversity crisis is difficult. In 2002 I began studying Marsh Tits in an ancient woodland to see how a functioning population worked. After 10 yrs I realised I was now documenting their slide towards local extinction:

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A very clear response from Tony Juniper and Natural England about their role in this process. The process is quite clear, it's based on statute. And by the way Norfolk County Council have known about the bat issue for 10 years....

Why faith-based politics is a bad idea...

There is some really interesting research about Swift in the link below. This species has declined markedly across the UK in recent years. It declined by 62.3% between 1995 and 2021.

Having signed a letter attacking Natural England, I suggest my MP George Freeman MP FRSA might like to apprise himself of the facts and issue a statement in support of our statutory institutions. Constituents have grown weary of such party political shenanigans. twitter.com/TonyJuniper/st…