Piers Meynell

A Eurasian lynx with a focused expression, framed by text: "October 2025, Rewilding Wins of the Month," and "Rewilding Britain" logo. Photo credit: Andyworks/Getty images/Canva

Your October #RewildingWins are here 🍂

The weather may be getting colder here in Britain but the rewilding successes continue to hot up!

Scroll down to read all about them👇

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Seriously! This little guy is determined to destroy the camera! @pinetencolin.bsky.social

Where the wild things are - a Pine Marten in a ravine on the west coast of Scotland.
#pinemarten
Well worth a listen:
"Sometimes a wild god comes to the table.
He is awkward and does not know the ways
Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver"
Tom Hirons
soundcloud.com/tomhirons/so...

Labour to pursue a ban on trail hunting "early next year" A big update for you on the campaign to end hunting with hounds.

BIG UPDATE - Public consultation on hunting with hounds scheduled for early next year..

protectthewild.substack.com/p/labour-to-...

Disability is a minority group you can join at any time

Many of us were “young & otherwise healthy” when we became ill

We were working & couldn’t imagine being unable to earn a living

We didn’t plan to become disabled. We didn’t plan to stop working

It can happen to anyone

Pine Marten leaping over another.

In total we were visited by three Pine Marten, a mother and two cubs. There were some brilliant interactions between the family including a couple of jumps. #mammals #photography #nature #wildlife #wildlifePhotography #UKWildlife

Beaver observatory approved in Welsh national park Elgan Hearn – Local democracy reporter Visitors to a Welsh nature reserve will be able to view beavers from an observatory soon after plans were give the go ahead by county planners. In February, Emyr...

Visitors to a Welsh nature reserve will be able to view beavers from an observatory soon after plans were give the go ahead by county planners

Reform’s Doge-style cost-cutting units ‘haven’t found any... The party’s attempt to mimic Elon Musk’s efficiency department in the US has been branded ‘fantasy politics’ by critics

If you ever needed a sign that Reform are looking more towards Trump and Musk than the reality of the UK, it’s this – they really thought that local councils, hamstrung by government cuts and increases in services, were full of wasteful spending to slash:
https://bit.ly/3WXpiSh

Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

A coyote sitting on a bare grassy hill against a background of trees

A coyote lifting its foot to scratch its ear

A coyote getting in a satisfying scratch on its ear

That’s a gooooood scratch
#mammals #coyotes

Surge in nurses reporting racial abuse at work, union data reveals There has been a surge in nurses reporting racial abuse and discrimination at work, according to data released by a nursing union. Some of the complaints made by ethnic minority nurses this year inclu...

There has been a surge in nurses reporting racial abuse and discrimination at work, according to data released by a nursing union

A Pine Marten on the west coast of Scotland.
What a wild & alert beauty this animal has.

Please don’t destroy my camera…… @pinetencolin.bsky.social

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:

🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.

Plaid Cymru win Caerphilly by-election in humiliation for Labour Plaid Cymru have won the by-election in the Senedd seat of Caerphilly for the first time - a landmark victory for the Welsh nationalist party.

Plaid Cymru win Caerphilly by-election in humiliation for Labour

‘Jail is inevitable’ for former Reform politician awaitin... Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points in Parliament

Exclusive: Two of Nathan Gill's fellow Ukip/Brexit Party MEPs used the same pro-Russia talking points in European Parliament, after joining him on a paid-for trip to Kyiv

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

🐇 A bill calling for a close season on hunting of brown hare is currently passing through the House of Lords.

Join us in calling for a change in law to protect Britain’s much-loved hares during their breeding season by signing the petition, linked in our bio.

Photo credit: Elliot Hook

#hares

Uni lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it's no longer shocking

This year's CEO Sleepout campaign is called 'At Your Doorstep'. The charity's CEO wants it to act as a wake-up call.

Copdock & Washbrook (Babergh) Council By-Election Result:

➡️ RFM: 32.0% (New)
🔶 LDM: 28.9% (-27.5)
🌍 GRN: 23.6% (+9.5)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-15.7)
🌹 LAB: 1.7% (New)

Reform GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.

Close up view of a roadrunner neck and head. The white, blue, and orange skin patch behind the right eye is visible. We can also see the upper eyelashes that curl down.

A roadrunner is up on a small wooden table getting mealworms from a white bowl.

The weather has done a 180 from the last couple days. Woke up to clear blue skies and warmer so I expected a visit from Ravi, aaaannd, yep!

1- close up profile showing off the behind the eye colors and those eyelashes 🥰

2- 2nd (at least) stop at the snack bowl

#birds roadrunner SoCal

AI and the Future of Universities - HEPI A new collection of essays, AI and the Future of Universities (HEPI Report 193) edited by Dr Giles Carden and Josh Freeman, brings together leading voices from universities, industry and policy. The c...

I haven't read it yet, but HEPI has a report out on AI and the Future of Universities. Includes a chapter by Vint Cerf (!!!). But also one "by" ChatGPT (who cannot be ascribed authorship). I'll read the former and skip the latter, I think.

www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/righ...

Is this not the CUTEST?

This is a baby white-nosed #coatimundi in Arizona's Galiuro Mountains (the very place threatened by #copper mining). She is learning to forage in the leaf litter for food. #cameratrap

Happening now: we’re about to enter Parliament to watch MPs debate the future of the Badger cull following our govt petition reaching 100,000 signatures.

Key ExoMars Rover part ships from Aberystwyth The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing. The infrared spectrometer, na...

The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...