Love nature

Seabirds are vital indicators of ocean health. Yet the UK seabird indicator shows a 37% long-term decline, driven by mounting pressures

Further declines in the short-term demonstrate the need to protect our seas now in order to secure our seabirds' futures

This book has so many brilliant ideas I could hardly put it down!

Great choice! PKD explores reality in such a unique way. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." What’s your favorite PKD twist? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Valis

Great to see the University of Aberdeen doing so well in this!

Scrunched up plastic bottle and tin can

Why? Do people use the countryside as a rubbish tip? Our garden is next to a country park, in the middle of beautiful countryside. Yet almost daily I have to clear rubbish from our drive and garden, often fast food packaging empty bottles and tins. Harmful to wildlife This is today's...please stop!

A clear stream winds through lush, green woodland, flanked by mossy tree trunks and overhanging branches. The kind of precious habitat that could be lost without strong environmental protections.

This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.

Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.

If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️

I have always thought that flowers are a language that everyone can speak and intuitively knows:
They can say I love you,
They can say I'm sorry,
They can convey happiness,
They can express sadness,
And to me, they also represent peace, and can bring joy to
the soul just by looking at them...

Love these authors!
#cymera

I love these authors, such imagination! Looks like great fun too.
#Cymera

Caterpillar eating my plum tree leaves, but will be eaten by the birds...if too many I will drop a few on the ground but far better to let nature take its course and so I encourage all wildlife to the garden to ensure predators and prey abound. #nature #gardening

Just became a member and already learning so much! Great citizen science here too. Make a difference

The Mallards have successfully hatched 6 chicks. Fingers crossed some will survive. We leave this big pond to nature, lots of places they can hide. It is so lovely to see them swimming around their Mom.
#nature
#ducks
#mallards

This one is for Welsh 🏳️‍🌈 ! Honestly, couldn't be more grateful to be working with @elianjmorgan.bsky.social and the excellent Canelo.

#ThoughtForTheDay

There is not a single person on planet Earth that needs an Elephant tusk except an Elephant.

🇨🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵 ~ Ivory is not a trinket nor is it fake medicine! 🚫

This is why you should let your lawns grow long, more grubs, and worms for the birds to collect. #Birds #food #lawns #garden #wildlifegarden #nature #leaveyourlawn #CheshireUK

I love our universe!
#Astrophotography

The daffodils and forsythia do complement each other well I think. And a few pollinators around them. Spring joy.
#garden

Why can't they just enjoy watching them and allow others to do the same? How about a photograph instead? Where is the skill in shooting like this! So sad.

The Camelias are starting to wake up. Along with the wild cherry plum, lesser celandines and all sorts of more native plants. Isn't nature beautiful 😍
#gardening

12 million light years away and we can now use computers to help us photograph in the back yard. Technology can be brilliant. Our universe is so amazing, we are lucky to have evolved enough to do this, let's try not to destroy our planet though...
#Astrophotography #universe

It’s #NationalButterflyDay - can you help protect them?

Last year, a Butterfly emergency was declared. Numbers hit a record low. A big reason? PESTICIDES!!

Please Sign & Share the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition at
action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-our-...

#Nature #Butterflies 🦋

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay

I think this quote from the wonderful Dame Jane Goodall is very appropriate...

'What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.'

One of the many reasons I enjoy reading novels is the mind and person inventing the story. I also recognise how much hard work goes into a good work of fiction. I don't want to read what a computer has produced thanks, and don't want hard working writers cheated upon.
#booksky

Item 5 on the what to do list is vital. Most of the recent financial problems are due to government changes in student visas. They do not understand the value of our HE sector and the contribution students make. The collapse in international student numbers will hit research too. And sadly, jobs.

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

This is a depressing list of United facing shortages and, calling for staff redundancies with courses closing. You cannot fix the economy without a healthy university sector. 🧵

Ricky Gervais holding his adopted cat Pickle with a quote about being kind to animals.

#ThoughtForTheDay from @mrrickygervais.bsky.social.

"Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors. We are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them."

There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER!!

⬇️ Ricky with his adopted cat @pickliciousf.bsky.social ❤️.

As I mentioned earlier, I will never understand how anyone can derive so much pleasure from killing beautiful creatures?!?

Biodiful Etude de la perception humaine de la biodiversité. Studying human perception of biodiversity.

Do you want to contribute to research on plant aesthetics? Take this quick, anonymous 5-minute survey:

www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en

This will help to explore how people perceive plant beauty in urban spaces! 🌼🌸🏵️

#plants #research
Please SHARE the survey 🦋 tag @biodiful.bsky.social 🙏💚

Zombie spiders! Found these 'cellar spiders' in our woodshed. Most already dead. It's a fungus that turns them white whilst eating away at them like something from a horror movie. Possibly Gibellula fungus. I need to get a microscope 🔬..
Isn't nature amazing.
#fungifriends
#spiders

uk residents over 18 please consider taking part in a major health research programme. I completed the tests on Sunday (my choice) and filled in the questionnaire. All straightforward.
#ourfuturehealth

ourfuturehealth.org.uk/get-involved...