Call for evidence: impacts of solar farms on bats - News - Bat Conservation Trust BCT is collecting information on the impacts of solar farms on bats. Keep reading to know how you can help.

🦇 The Bat Conservation Trust is inviting evidence from bat groups, ecologists, practitioners, local authorities, developers, regulators, landowners, statutory agencies, NGOs, volunteers and others on the impacts of solar farms on bats:
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13.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

We have grows on our garden garage waiting for our blue tit chicks to leave the nest.. X

06.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much to @thestar.co.uk for this lovely double page spread in today’s paper to mark the start of the shooting season.

12.08.2025 15:27 — 👍 38    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

10.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 144    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 2

We made the paper Ruth :) @ruthtingay.bsky.social

12.08.2025 20:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out this stunning #Henharrier video... X #Bangrouseshooting the sky is dead...

09.08.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Duke of Rutland is urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor to the people of Sheffield The campaign group Reclaim Our Moors wants the Duke of Rutland to to sell Moscar Moor near Sheffield for £1 because they think it is in such...

Members say they walked across part of the 6,000-acre estate, between Stanage Edge and the A57, and found "almost no insect life, few birds and no grouse".

18.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 26    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1

Illegal persecution of birds of prey is again a major public concern in Yorkshire Dales National Park Regular readers of this blog will know that the Yorkshire Dales National Park is a raptor persecution hotspot, and has been for many years. Hen Harriers, in particular, have been prime targets for …

The previous Yorkshire Dales National Park Management Plan failed to address the illegal killing of birds of prey - what will the next five-year plan bring?

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Yorkshire

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07.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 37    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1

Blacktip Shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)

05.08.2025 21:54 — 👍 63    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

I'd be enthusiastic for a community-led takeover of the Forest of Bowland (Lancaster & Lancashire) - it should be the country's flagship rewilding / peat restoration project.

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18.06.2025 14:11 — 👍 35    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

Just share it on our two falcon groups and two Chris packham fan pages one has 10k and one has over 20k

04.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hen Harrier chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent birds RSPB press release (24 July 2025) Chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent Hen Harriers.  In May 2025, over a period of eight days, four breeding male Hen Harriers suspi…

Four adult breeding Hen Harriers 'vanished' from nest sites in Cumbria & Lancashire in May 2025 - silence from police, valiant conservation efforts from RSPB staff & volunteers.

RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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24.07.2025 05:22 — 👍 102    🔁 56    💬 2    📌 3

Will share on all the Facebook groups I follow x

04.08.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🛑 Stop grouse shooting

📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice.

🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August

📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park

🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

29.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 53    🔁 32    💬 8    📌 2

Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

On this #PoisonedPlanet, so many threats to life.

Cocktail of #pesticides and important issue for many species

#NatureCrisis
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03.08.2025 06:24 — 👍 99    🔁 57    💬 3    📌 1

The #Milanada is on!

After several days of powerful #levante winds a slight drop in the wind opened the departure gate across The #Straits and into Africa the sky a kaleidoscope of mesmeric migrating Black Kites as thousands upon thousands depart!

#FlywayBirding

03.08.2025 09:47 — 👍 93    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 5

REVIVE - the coalition for grouse moor reform, has joined Bluesky!

Please give them a follow: @revivecoalition.bsky.social

04.08.2025 13:49 — 👍 50    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 2