It's the first of the month so we #PickUpOne bit of #litter for TommyPicsUpTrash , or one bagful is also good! This vintage-looking whistle cleaned up well - but only whistles if I put my finger over his nose while I blow! #strangestfindMay

Happy #InternationalDayoftheDandelion ! Share your pics of this pollinators' paradise wildflower with the hashtag to take us into gorgeous #NoMowMay 💛🌼🐝

Great example of how decomposing garbage fr. yesteryear continually aids shoreline erosion.

Deep chasms are created under aquatic plants that are loosened up with every tide cycle.

The vegetation collapses & the past returns to the present to show us the future.

#FraserRiver

1/2: A tiny sailor washed in with the waves...
He's not plastic, as he first appeared, but made out of a ceramic material, and was once painted; he looks 20th C in style to me. Does anyone recognise him?

Astounding find, Nationally scarce Four-spotted Carrion Beetle Dendroxena quadrimaculata. Lives life Quercus canopy hunting Lepidoptera larvae via scent trails. 2 County records last 30 years, real privilege to see one in SK17 Silphidae Recording Scheme Ashleigh Whiffin Marian Hill #CarrionBeetles

It's nearly #InternationalDayoftheDandelion #internationaldayofthedandelion depending on your penchant for capital letters in your tags 😁. Wouldn't it be lovely to turn social media dandelion yellow in support of this and all other wild flowers? Are you ready? Sunday, 5 sleeps.

Apparently wild strawberry flowers feed 50 different species of bees especially in early spring.
Very good reasons to grow many more of them 🍓

Did you know that there is an open letter demanding a Global Plastics Treaty? Check out who signed it, and who hasn’t yet…

Sarah’s Garden 🌱 I’m sure you know probably this already, but info for others too. Please wait a few months before dismantling any sheds etc as many fox dens are often accidentally disturbed resulting in orphaned young cubs. At the moment we’re in peak cub season.
#Fox

📢 Recruitment update! 📢
We are now looking for FIVE seasonal POs in various locations across our project area. The latest position to be added will work across the Dee & Don catchments and be flexibly deployed in other areas. For more info & to apply: invasivespecies.scot/join-us

Jings! Look at those salmon - just bare bones and flesh, they've been skinned alive by the sides of the pen, due to being rammed into over-full fish pens. And to think these get labelled 'responsibly sourced' and 'rspca assured'😮😱💀

Poisons, banned for use, are still being used illegally to kill wildlife. Since 2009, 64 birds of prey have been illegally poisoned in NI. Please help us to make the legislation stronger so it's illegal to possess chemicals which have no legal use. Sign chng.it/mmvS78Zv7M

This #WildlifeWednesday we are shining a light on the #OilBeetle !

☀️ With the warm sunny days we’ve experienced recently (in between the named storms, rain, flooding, hail & snow!) reports of oil beetles are appearing across social media.

🧵/1 #OilBeetle Hunt

“Everything in the sea has benefited from the ban on industrial salmon farming,” says Mendez The Guardian “The whole ecosystem was saved, from the crabs to the seaweed; they all depend on a healthy Beagle Channel.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Email addresses to complain to Natural England North West about their planned destruction of SSSI saltmarsh in the Wirral are in comments below Josh's short video explainer. If you share my disgust, please tell them so!

Pacific islands chiefs grant whales and dolphins ‘legal person’ status.

Giving ocean creatures rights in the same way as people is a vital conservation step, says Maori king.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

To sign this petition to get this man punished for torturing a wolf cub, if you are in Britain you will need to use a zip code instead of post code. You can use 90210. There is a space to put your true country of residence, so I think it is ok to replace the postcode.

What goes up must come down.
I've picked up so many torn muddy balloons or half deflated balloons with horrible plastic string tangled in the seaweed.
Balloons float out to sea and kill our precious wildlife.
Just stop buying balloons.

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵

Do I NEED to say? Vote for the wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp! Wasp!

Why? They are nature’s pest controllers, pollinators, decomposers; they’re as clever, useful, impt & interesting as bees but MORE GORGEOUS, diverse & extraordinary !!

#VotesForWasps