This is perfect! Thank you Malvern Hills District Council! Malvern Hills DC Worcs Wildlife Trust Little Green Space 🦋 Joshua Styles Biodiversityloss

Finally: RSPB founder Emily Williamson is given her own half hour on BBC Radio 4 - and it felt pretty amazing sitting round the table with two other women, discussing her life.

Emily Williamson, BBC Radio 4 #GreatLives nominee: RSPB founder 1889, calling out ‘murderous millinery’ one feathered hat at a time. Saving the world’s #birdlife from the rapacious plumage trade. I’m so chuffed to have brought her story to light & taken part in this. Listen!

We're on a precipice. He's right. Watch this with yr head and yr heart. Resilience. The work he describes is essential and we need more of it, not less. And we'll go badly backwards without enough public funding to make that public good possible Steve Reed MP Rachel Reeves

A quick reminder that gardens can make such important spaces for biodiversity. 4 years on and things have come quite a way for me… - over 30 marsh and spotted orchids ✅ - rocketing wildflower species richness ✅ - huge abundance of pollinators and other invertebrates ✅

June brings a whole new line-up of brilliant butterflies and moths to spot in your gardens and local green spaces 🦋🌻🌿 Discover more species and tips on how to attract them with our free monthly e-newsletter 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/enews #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

Moving, passionate & convincing: the case for wildlife friendly farming - that would feed our country

Happy World Swallowtail Day! 🦋 The spectacular Swallowtail (Papilio machaon Britannicus) is our largest native butterfly, but also one of our rarest, confined solely to the fens and marshes of the Norfolk Broads. butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/… 📷: Sophie Hall, Sarah Punter

Excellent news from Steve Reed MP Defra UK today on plan to end the hugely destructive practice of #BottomTrawling in England's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) A very important step that will, finally, give a chance for nature to start to recover in English seas #ThankYou

We’ll take this one for you, David Lammy: Roughly 90% of all the nature that the UK Government is responsible for is in the UK Overseas Territories. Cutting funding would put irreplaceable species at risk and shred the UK’s credibility on nature.

Bottom trawling tears up fragile seabed habitats & harms the life that depends on them. Today’s UK Government decision to ban it in 40+ Marine Protected Areas offers hope: a chance to let our seas recover & life return. 🌊 Let's see Marine Protected Areas live up to their name.

“it’s in the Conservatives’ hands. If they are the nature leaders they claim to be, they can ensure swift bricks become law.” - me 🏡🧱Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England | Planning policy | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

I know swifts get the attention but swallows deserve a puff. They are currently nesting in our basement - the acrobatics involved are spectacular. We are honoured that they have chosen to live with us. #swallows

Molly Sasson was a WW2 spy whose remarkable service has largely remained in the shadows. From examining enemy correspondence to extracting information from wounded German soldiers—she risked everything to gather crucial intelligence on SS units. This is her wartime story: (🧵)

Here to help, Keir Starmer: You said you would ‘restore and protect our natural world’ but we see planning protections being weakened and funding for nature-friendly farming threatened. 1/6 species in the UK risk extinction. Time to act!

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…) theguardian.com/environment/20…

I confess I’m not v keen on the idea that Classics & other humanities disciplines teach you how to THINK (they may or may not). They do however teach you how to READ & argue responsibly on questions to which there are no right answers. I believe these are v important civic skills

Grateful to Laura Parker for this wonderful full page review of #GhostsoftheFarm Chelsea Green Publishing in countrylife.co.uk 8 Oct. ‘The author is at her best when immersed in rural detail… Mrs Chester has found something truly haunting.’

Tragic. Preventable. Final. The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch. We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind. Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews David Gray

Did you know that non organic bulbs (and seeds and plants) will often be treated with systemic pesticides that last so long that they can poison the visiting bees and insects once the plant is in bloom?