Campaigners for a change in the rules to require all new buildings to include swift boxes have been puzzled by the govt’s failure to act. 

Almost everyone supports the measure as it is so cheap, easy, popular and also crucial for the survival of this much loved and admired…

Having been out the country last week, the #BestDayOfTheYear was a little late this year, but yesterday I saw my first #Swift of 2024. Immediate mood lifter right there. 💚 Now where's those mandatory Swift bricks Michael Gove? Please act & show your commitment to saving nature.

Calling all cormorant connoisseurs! Check out the 'Great Cormorants: Best on the Nest' workflow Seabird Watch (tinyurl.com/a6ttvdmh) and get clicking! All your efforts will contribute to monitoring productivity and phenology in a very under monitored #seabird ! 1/

Great work from Dominick Spracklen and other colleagues at University of Leeds Earth and Environment at Leeds and the organisations listed below.

Delighted to see our U.K. moorland burning paper has been published in Remote Sensing in Ecology & Conservation today.

Paper is OA and can be found here - doi.org/10.1002/rse2.3…

A great experience working with some fantastic RSPB Science folks. David Douglas

As we often point out to visitors to Hardknott Forest, we have our very own 'Mart Crag', where pine martens would have had a den in the past. They were once our second most common carnivore, but became virtually extinct in England. Let's get them back to Cumbria!

1/3: Hot on the heels of Campaign for National Parks #NationalParks Health Check, which highlighted that just 6% of National Parks are well-managed for nature, great to see that nature recovery has come up as the top priority for the Yorkshire Dales National Park National Park. cravenherald.co.uk/news/24259981.…

Moorland burning can be environmentally damaging, especially on peatlands
We used satellite imagery to map the extent of burning across Great Britain and the overlap with sensitive habitats

Read more: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie…
Full paper: …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rs…

Excited to be working with such great partners to help restore nature across Yorkshire & Cumbria Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Woodland Trust🌳 Forestry England National Trust WWF UK UBoC Natural England Restoring Hardknott Forest

Fab job vacancy alert📢: RSPB Scotland is looking for a new Senior Policy Officer - Protected Areas & Nature Recovery. For more info and to apply see: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Caree…

This is a great listen on how the Bass Rock’s gannets are regaining strength and numbers after avian flu wiped out many thousands of them, and how North Berwick’s been affected by storms. Top work from Martha Kearney, Maggie Sheddan and Scottish Seabird Centre.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Meet Alex: He's traded life in bustling South London for the wild and rugged Outer Hebrides – where he has let nature ‘move in’.

Hear his thoughts on swapping city-life for farming 👇

#SaveOurWildIsles

SWIFTS ARE ARRIVING HOME!
Celebrate your first swift sighting by posting on here and tagging me & Michael Gove - if he knows how many of us are DELIGHTED by their return, maybe he will act & greenlight the ready-and-waiting proposal to secure their essential nesting habitat!

Saw my first swifts of the year today. Michael Gove why won't you agree to simple legislation to help these magical yet critically threatened birds?

#Bass Sitting checking the camera cables watching this unfold . If it dropped the stick it would have managed more . Loved the thought process. Notice how few nests in background. Still early given recent weather Scottish Seabird Centre

🚨 EU challenges UK sandeel fishery closures 🚨

This is a direct threat to our struggling seabirds.

Sandeels should end up in Puffin beaks, not hoovered up for livestock.

We need the UK Government to stand firm. The closures must remain!

All had a great time.
Even time for a lie down in the interval 😁

Thanks everyone Delfont Mackintosh Theatres Hamilton who made it extra special for Amaia

🎉 And the winner of the #IBISbestECRpaper 2023 is...

Eamon C. Corbett's The mechanistic, genetic and evolutionary causes of bird eye colour variation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…

Huge congrats Eamon!
bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-best…

Thanks to Leica Nature & Birding for the prize!

#ornithology

Scope it’s great you have made this list./resource. scope.org.uk/campaigns/lets…

You have Meanwood Park as green, could you help encourage them to reintroduce the bucket swing that got removed. It doesn’t really warrant green rating without it.

Meanwood Park Playground Fabian Hamilton Alex Sobel MP 🟣 Meanwood Matters did anyone ever find out what happened to the accessible swing?

It did feel a bit like the kids who would use it weren’t considered very important when no one ever followed up

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