Darren Archer

Unprovoked?
We are stealing their habitat; polluting their water; raising sea temperatures; over fishing, but ok we’ll go unprovoked!

Low-carbon birding is future-friendly birding.

We can all bird & live more responsibly & spread awareness of how we can move forward & do less harm on a rapidly warming planet.

#lowcarbonbirding

How exciting! Published tomorrow. It'll be great! #naturewatching #lowcarbon @heatherdevey.bsky.social @rebeccaonthewing.bsky.social

One of my favorite things to read every year is that Wisdom has returned to Midway. Have a great season, Queen.

Looks like one of your mates @thekentacorn.bsky.social

Wow: Amnesty International official says they were sharing info with the Biden-Harris admin as soon as October 2023 that there wasn't even a "semblance" of Israel following international law.

They kept trying again and again — soon declaring Israel was committing genocide. Admin kept ignoring them.

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Female Common Pipistrelle 🦇

This pip was brought into work today after being caught by a cat last night. Luckily she doesn’t have any life threatening injuries and the cat owner acted quickly!

She has a small hole in the wing membrane and this will heal naturally with time and warmth.

I know Gateshead Council have been deaf to all my letters

This could be really good news

A collage of Big Brown Bats in flight! Photos taken by Brock&Sherri Fenton.

🦇🌎🧪Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) can definitely affect bats. Some bat species are more sensitive than others. It would be good to do a test of this "red-lighting" in North America to see if our bats also benefit!
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

Mary mungo midge Has to be the new secular name

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Mapping forced displacements and settler attacks by Israel in the West Bank Israeli military incursions and settler attacks forced more than 37,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 2025.

Israeli military incursions and settler attacks forced more than 37,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 2025.

https://www.fischereiverein-gaildorf.de/naturlehrpfad/ufervegetation/

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #BatIllustration #German #19thCentury
Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823 - 1886)
DAUBENTON'S BAT
Engraving; BREHMS TIERLEBEN, small edition, 1927

Report: Business-as-Usual Destroys Biodiversity and Our Chances for Economic and Human Survival The growth of the global economy has cost immense biodiversity loss, which poses a critical and pervasive systemic risk to the economy, financial stability and human wellbeing reports The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Our adherence to business-as-usual destroys biodiversity and hastens our businesses' and our own extinction. The IPBES report was prepared over three years by 79 leading experts from 35 countries and all regions of the world.

Report: Business-as-Usual Destroys Biodiversity and Our Chances for Economic and Human Survival

The growth of the global economy has cost immense biodiversity loss, which poses a critical and pervasive systemic risk to the economy, financial stability and human wellbeing reports The…

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A wader feeding on shoreline rocks between waves.

Purple sandpiper on the rocks.
#SuperSeabirdSunday

Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom

Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom https://aje.news/azayka

Statement from Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital. I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank. Email me to coordinate your visit: hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day. We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital. The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack. 8 hours ago

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

🦇 #bioacoustics

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YouTube video by DiEM25 Protect Francesca Albanese at ALL costs — Yanis Varoufakis

"As Francesca Albanese prepares... report to the United Nations... familiar pattern unfolds: smear campaigns, manufactured outrage, & coordinated calls for her resignation.

Why? Because her reports expose uncomfortable truths about violations of international law..."

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylth...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Western states failing to prevent Gaza genocide: Analysis

"...Frank Barat, an author and film producer, discusses how Western governments have responded to allegations of genocide in Gaza.

He highlights the targeting of Francesca Albanese, a UN special rapporteur, for exposing failures in international law enforcement."

m.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Z5...

Phew 🤣

Shot? 😱

Better👍

At the opening of the 39th summit of the African Union, the Chairman of the Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said the "extermination" of the Palestinian people must end.

Yes makes you want to weep at this vandalism

Not a good day
Last week this was great Whitethroat nesting habitat full of life and brambles