Please keep your dogs on short leads to protect young Redshank, Curlew, Skylarks, Nightingales... as you walk through nature reserves, countryside and farmland. Thank you so much! 💚🙏x

THIS! All the public (voters!), conservation NGOs&cross-party politicians led by Zac Goldsmith are asking for is THIS. Our home is their home. Michael Gove this isn’t rocket science but it is urgently essential.

#lekking is past its peak and we're excited to start the nest searches next week, not as excited as #ruffs when they see a female and a satellite approach ❤️‍🔥

The modern world in old Ladybird books.
Eating on trains, 1974.

Artist: Frank Humphris

Golden Plover chicks are some of the most beautifully coloured wader chicks, perfectly matched to their hiding places up on the high mossy plateaux in the Arctic tundra and other palearctic areas

[📷 Camilo Carneiro]

A very pleasant visit to RSPB reserve at Ouse Fen. Fantastic habitat developing in the wake of sand & gravel extraction, with more to come. Many great birds, with this singing Great Reed Warbler a highlight (sound on to hear snippets of song rarely heard in Britain).

This is Griet Nijs, a hero. She is, with a small team if volunteers, single-handedly saving curlew in Belgium. Thank you Griet, your dedication, passion, personal sacrifice and warmth are so inspiring. Curlews still hanging there because of you. 💚💚🇫🇷

Only around 20 curlew chicks fledged in Belgium last year, so fantastic to see this 11 day old, and it had a sibling. ⁦Curlew Action⁩

First Sheffield curlew chicks Ive seen this spring. Two. Fingers crossed they survive. Curlew Action Mary Colwell

A thundery, magical night in Belgium, warblers, waders and singing frogs. Tomorrow we visit curlew sites. 90% decline in 40 years, almost zero productivity. Are Belgium’s curlews doomed? With Ellen Bradley and Griet Nijs. Curlew Action

“Sweet and lyrical music belongs to the sun, but the night-time has claimed the weird, the marginal and the alien as its own.” Mary Colwell is rewarded by a trudge in the dark through a nature reserve in eastern Poland thetablet.co.uk/features/2/243…

In the village of Sirmione on lake Garda, Italy, there is a cafe covered in bougainvillea

'It's not just Devon: Map reveals faeces contaminated tap water has been detected in TEN areas of England and Wales as experts warn that ongoing cryptosporidium outbreak could spread.'

Is there anything that this industry can get right, anything?

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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘May in South Devon’
Whitbread calendar 1971
Artist: SR Badmin

% land cover of protected sites in England is 8%. The European average is 27.3%. UK having the second lowest % of area designated in Europe

There has been no change in the area of favourable condition of SSSi since 2016

We have to do better than this!!

🤞🏻this is 5⭐️

Insect-eating bird population ‘drops by 40% in decade’. Terrifyingly obvious here in Somerset where sightings of house martins in particular are few and far between… ⁦Phoebe Weston⁩ ⁦BTO⁩ ⁦RSPB News⁩ ⁦Somerset Wildlife Trust⁩ theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Rare Enhydro Quartz contains over a hundred moving bubbles, each in a tiny cavity filled with ancient water.

Formed in a hydrothermal solution, water in some specimens have been preserved within crystals for millions of years,

📹Rocks for the Spirit

Lovely afternoon in a dingy chalk pit. I think this is the best butterfly photo I've ever taken and I'm quite proud of it.

Just been served the worst cup of tea not just of my life but since the advent of agriculture.