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Contact your local bat group - Support Bats - Bat Conservation Trust There are more than 80 bat groups in the UK. They are made up of many dedicated volunteers and are the mainstay of bat conservation across the country, ...

🦇 There are more than 80 bat groups in the UK, all run by volunteers and all on the front line of bat conservation. To find your local bat group and get involved see:

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Happy Halloween!

What better day to highlight brand new The Genius Bat by Yossi Yovel? A fascinating read on the mysterious bat and the people who study them; their biological feats and the important ways they contribute to a healthy planet!

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a grid of pictures of nature books on insects with the words incredible insects: the best books on insects and creepy crawlies. recommendations by the little green bookshop.

Love insects?

We have a whole shelf of our favourite and recommended books on insects, whether you want to know more about the hive-mind of ants, identify a weird bug in your garden, or understand the way insects make our environment liveable!

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The Wonder of Insects by Ross Piper is a new illustrated hardback exploring the fascinating worlds of 70 #insects. Incredible creatures who have evolved into peak forms with such innovative and remarkable adaptations. A real eye-opener!

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Hedgehog eating food at night

Be careful if building a bonfire this Halloween and Bonfire Night. Hedgehogs love to hibernate in piles of sticks and branches – so build a bonfire on the same day you plan to burn it, and check it carefully for hiding wildlife.
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A jellyfish-like light explosion in the nights sky in pink and orange, forking lines headed down towards the earth

Incredible photos and atmospheric phenomenon all the way through.

Check out the book if you want to find out more about what THIS is!

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Storm by master stormchaser Hank Schyma is a beautiful new title from DK that's the best kind of informative photography coffee-table book: stunning, and full of science and first-hand accounts of epic weather events.

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A photograph of a Common Inkcap fungi that is seen among beech tree leaf litter. It is fairly young with an almost egg shaped cap that appears to be made of silky buff coloured threads with a slightly frilly end. Its stem is white and is leaning slightly to the right as viewed. The leaves that surround it blur out in the background in to the darkness. Taken in the UK

It might be Common but this Inkcap seemed perfect to share for #WildFungiHour 🍄 It really was shouting 'look at me' on the dark woodland floor! 😊 📷 🌿

Good evening everyone ✨👋

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State of Gandhi behind bars with a security man standing in front.

State of Fawcett behind bars, close up from face to torso.

State of Gandhi behind bars from behind with Parliament in the background.

State of Mandela behind bars, close-up from head to torso.

🚨BREAKING: Activists have imprisoned DANGEROUS TERRORISTS Mandela, Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett statues in Parliament Square.

They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.

The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.

After the Unb**** disaster, I'm so relieved to see this republished by @swiftpress.bsky.social.

The first book I wrote where I said "Fuck it, this time I'm doing exactly what *I* want to do, and not trying to please a marketing department or anyone else." 2017. The real start of my writing career.

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21st-Century Yokel by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social is a charming & funny exploration of how we are all linked to our landscape, through folklore, family history, and wild places.

Cox always writes in a way that draws you in and plants you in the landscape 🌳💙📚 Get your copy here: buff.ly/QvbJIUC

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

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Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing ‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

Those who seek to impose their will on others through military might and genocide, like Putin and Trump, are also those who will kill off whole ecosystems for profit.

The connection is direct and uncoincidental.
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BBC Radio 4 - A Carnival of Animals, The Ostrich Katherine Rundell explores wonderful stories of 20 astonishing but endangered animals.

If you're needing a moment away from stuff, this is a wonderful little dose of loveliness, and Katherine Rundell's voice is as divine as her writing ... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Happy publication day to @dominicmhinde.bsky.social, his book 'Drifting north: Finding a sustainable future in Scotland's past' is out now, available from all good bookshops & online.

Past & future collide in this engaging journey through Scotland, and the struggle for a sustainable world. #booksky

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Every Last Fish by Rose George is an incredible journey into commercial fishing, its devastating impacts, & the traditional fishing communities fighting to survive. A whole ecosystem under threat that most of us barely think about!

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Creatures of Darkness is a brand new book by Dani Robertson which explores the mysterious night-time hours when so many unseen creatures emerge to live their lives.

Told through 100 nocturnal animals from across the world & their adaptations. Eye opening & luminous!

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The cover of Avidyā by Vidyan Ravinthiran, a gorgeous, riotous array of plant, animal, flowers, greens and colours

The cover of Wellwater by Karen Solie. A forest green background with three light green to turquoise images of metal measuring tools one above the other.

Pick up Avidyā by Vidyan Ravinthiran here:
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And Wellwater by Karen Solie here:
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A photo of Vidyan Ravinthiran with a picture of the book cover for poetry collection Avidyā, and text announcing the prize

A photo of Karen Solie with a picture of the book cover for the poetry collection Wellwater, and text announcing the prize

Congratulations to @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social and Karen Solie, joint winners of this year's @forwardprizes.bsky.social for best #poetry collection!

Both contain gorgeous evocations of landscape, place and nature 💚 A very well deserved prize!

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When Randal Plunkett inherited his ancestral estate of Dunsany Castle he chose a different path and stepped away from farming to let nature rewild the estate. His new book Wild Thing is a memoir of risk, hope, sustainability, and discovery.
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Incredible numbers of people joining the Green Party at the moment, looking for a political movement that champions green issues and human rights, and stands against fascism and inequality.

Could you be one of them?

Undammed by @taralohan.bsky.social explores the effects of the thousands of dams in the USA, and how removing them + restoring rivers is a huge boon to environment, safety, and human needs. A hopeful account of a nature restoration movement that's growing worldwide!
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📣 "Civil disobedience, even when disruptive, is protected under international human rights law" ⚖️

In The Circle of Ancient Trees is a new hardback collection telling the stories of 10 #trees through their rings and environmental history, each chapter written by an expert and illustrated with wood- engravings and tree-ring infographics 🌳💙📚

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I love maps so I'm giving away TWO signed paperbacks of my psychedelic/folkloric novel Villager each with these fantastic maps my dad illustrated of the fictional village in the book.Just repost this/reply below for a chance to win.

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Rats have a terrible reputation, but they are intelligent adept survivors, and their history is inextricably entangled with our own. @joeshute.bsky.social's Stowaway explores this history and unpicks the myths surrounding this fascinating tiny mammal 🐀 💙 📚

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The Tree Hunters by Thomas Pakenham tells the tale of the aristocrat-adventurers & scholars who brought species from around the world back to Britain for their collections & transformed the British landscape. Crime, rivalry, passion & exploits! 📚💙

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Blue jellyfish on a cream cover

Biological #metamorphosis is an amazing thing, and Oren Harman's brand new book Metamorphosis explores the science, array of creatures, processes, and the way it's obsessed humans as an idea in poetry, fiction & philosophy.

Out now in hardback:
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UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business

This is so exciting - and follows the example of many other countries that already have recognition of nature rights in their constitutions. It’s time to give Nature a voice in law! @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social