Paul Dolman

‘We miss having a dog but it’s the price you pay’: the village that banned pets to save wildlife Australian eco community is a sanctuary for native animals and a showcase of sustainable living

‘We miss having a dog but it’s the price you pay’: the village that banned pets to save wildlife

Fascinating study. Kids find Wolf much scarier than Lynx, but support for reintroducing Lynx only marginally higher than for Wolf; most are don’t know. Nature restoration a more familiar term than #Rewding 🌍

Young people's attitudes to lynx/wolf reintroductions

Based on @ark-ni.bsky.social data from 5,000+ children & teenagers in #NorthernIreland, my new report discusses their attitudes to potential #lynx & #wolf reintroductions to the UK/ROI

It's complicated!

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I have been told that Defra are pushing LR Pilots to sign contracts that can be cancelled at any time with all payments then needing to be repaid. This could kill Landscape Recovery without having to officially cancel it.

Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Beautiful work led by Dr. LuLu Victoria-Lacy just got published today in @peopleandnature.bsky.social! The paper highlights the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon.
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Many thanks Jo

A ‘habitat pile’ cut branches stacked at the base of a willow in a degraded fen

Leaving ‘habitat piles’ condemns that patch of fen to become nettle bed. Biomass removal from fen hay, litter, fuel was key to these habitats for millennia.

Piles of cut sedge around a patch is Sallow scrub with a cut fen in the foreground

Closer view of habits piles

Charcoal discarded on cut fen surface

Great to see this cutting and scrub removal from a local fen. But habitat piles and burn sites destined to become nettle bed (already abundant), reducing the fen extent. Where possible, biomass removal is preferable.

What a fantastic initiative from Norfolk Wildlife Trust

A teasel seed head backlit showing gently recurved bracts

Teasel seed head growing in long grass

Could this be Fuller’s Teasel Dipsacus sativus rather than Wild Teasel? Spines not greatly recurved. Growing in flushed gravel. #WildFlowerID

Poor show from Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Accepting advertising revenue from bird feeding despite massive evidence of negative impacts. Like a climate ngo taking money from big oil @alexanderlees.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social

Wood-burning stoves could face partial ban in Labour’s updated environment plan Exclusive: Pollution targets set out alongside nature recovery projects to allay concerns over housebuilding

£500m to be allocated to Landscape Recovery Projects in the Government’s revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) - good news for #biodiversity recovery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wood-burning stoves could face partial ban in Labour’s updated environment plan Exclusive: Pollution targets set out alongside nature recovery projects to allay concerns over housebuilding

£500m to be allocated to Landscape Recovery Projects in the Government’s revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) - good news for #biodiversity recovery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A group of brightly dressed activists, sitting on the public benches of the Haymarket in Norwich. Many holding signs opposing genocide and in support of a nonviolent direct action group who, after successfully opposed Israeli arms manufacturing company, Elbit Systems, where proscribed as a Terrorist group by the UK Government for hypothetical future thought crime. Central in this picture is Sanata Claus holding a sign with the crucial 5 words. And an elf.

In Norwich they arrested Santa under the terrorism act. And an elf. For showing solidarity with the oppressed and upholding the right to nonviolent political action.

Impactful new alliances boost rewilding in the Affric Highlands | Rewilding Europe In the Affric Highlands of Scotland, a growing coalition of landowners, residents, businesses, and other stakeholders is driving nature recovery across the landscape. Two new official partners…

Great progress in the Scottish Highlands @rewildscotland.bsky.social @treesforlife.bsky.social #rewilding #nature rewildingeurope.com/news/impactf...

The structure of the annual migratory flight activity in a songbird | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Migratory songbirds have an internal circannual genetic programme that controls the timing and extent of migratory flight activity, as demonstrated by experiments with birds held in cages. We used mul...

A new tracking study reveals migration is more rigid than the long held view that it is a flexible process. In Red-backed Shrikes at least.

#OpenAccess paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B

#ornithology 🪶 #OA

These actions defend the right to nonviolent direct action. Proscription of an activist group because they have caused economic damage to a company would redefine trade unions, suffragettes, campaigners against fossil fuels or peace activists as terrorists. This is dangerous authoritarianism.

Piles of cut sedge around a patch is Sallow scrub with a cut fen in the foreground

Closer view of habits piles

Charcoal discarded on cut fen surface

Great to see this cutting and scrub removal from a local fen. But habitat piles and burn sites destined to become nettle bed (already abundant), reducing the fen extent. Where possible, biomass removal is preferable.

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds

Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?

Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.

MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.

If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.

Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢

Drax should be shut down

Stream surrounded by lush greenery. Credit: Martin Wright

By reintroducing keystone species, such as beavers, and allowing rivers to flow more naturally, we can help secure a future for brown trout – and countless other species that depend on healthy waterways.

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Really fascinating thanks for sharing this

Importance of landscape configuration on nest predation explored here in @wadertales.bsky.social blogs by Graham Appleton bsky.app/profile/wade...

Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity

I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP?

#COP30
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I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.