How to manage farmland habitats for wild #pollinators. Here are pollinator-friendly management guidelines for 17 farm habitat types, written by experts from across Europe Super B published today in Journal of Applied Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloa…

From a local farming group, a farmer asking his MP a question,the response is shocking.

Freeholder 'devastated' by management firm's £13k bill bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Artificial Lawns are spreading at a worrying rate, fuelling an even more rapid decline of biodiversity. Until Government make these dreadful plastic landscapes illegal, we'll need to work to help people make more informed decisions in their garden. Please share far and wide

Climate and Nature cartoon of the day: Wash Your hands! @mackaycartoons

For decades, we've got health wrong, thinking it's all about individual inheritance and responsibility. Trillions are spent on health services and yet billions remain unhealthy. Why? Because health is how we adapt to our environment, and our environment is becoming uninhabitable.

Wild bees and other pollinators are in decline. One way gardeners can help is by planting garden flowers that provide forage for a wide variety of pollinating insects. Learn about ten great pollinator plants for the garden with @Bostock4Helen for #BeesNeeds Week 🐝 Defra UK

It was a lovely sunset in Torridon last night but I just didn’t feel like getting out of the tent to take photos. BBC Highlands

Unbelievably there is a loophole that allows people coming into Britain to bring with them 20 kilos of shark fins . The petition below thinks we should close that loophole - I do too . #BanSharkFinUK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3005…

Without doubt, my favourite birds in flight image ever. I've spent many hours watching Swifts feeding overhead, and their screaming flight is indelibly inked in my memory - but this glorious realisation of their flight patterns is something else entirely.

This is terrifying. I know so much is terrifying, wrong, downright inept & hopeless-feeling at the moment, which is why nature, having a healthy environment around us, has never been so important. This is OUR home too. Fight for it.

Incredible explosion of gold from a 1400 year old Ginkgo tree Photography by Han Fei

Depressing but important report on State of Nature in EU published today. Shows how bad the UK is in conserving nature! eea.europa.eu/publications/s…