Steve Garland

Lancashire Wildlife Recorder's Conference 2026 Join us in Blackburn to share, learn, and celebrate wildlife and nature together! -:-Sponsored by the Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society

Booking for this event has just been released. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lancashire...

The Lancs LNRS went live today. It introduces a new strategy for nature recovery in the local area.

It's two and a half year production has has involved and provided the opportunity for input from private and public sector organisations, the public and eNGOs.

www.lancashire.gov.uk/council/stra...

Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24-hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Please also report dead or sick birds to BirdTrack via www.birdtrack.net for monitoring purposes.

Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

Make no mistake, this is a centralising Govt taking power&decision making away from people

And these shambolic amendments to #PlanningBill, tabled last minute, build on months of lies from #RachelReeves pathetically scapegoating nature for a struggling economy..

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well deserved.

For my museum contacts - please share with anyone who may be interested. This is an exciting phase for our Trust and for Settle. thefolly.org.uk/about/the-tr...

Inaction by successive governments is simply ridiculous.

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

Almost a BRANCH insect? What an amazing species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With Belinda, Marion and Andy at Latitude

A WhatsApp message from a fellow climber who was arrested recently. It states: “I was arrested in Manchester on Saturday and accused of supporting a proscribed organisation. After a night in the cells I was released without charge and bailed (conditionally) until October. I was arrested again this morning in my own home by three counter terrorism officers (I'm a big bloke) who also seized my laptop. They wanted to speak about the crime (my own) report I made a week ago and about the post I made on fB in support of the same banned organisation namely Palestine Action. I am not a terrorist. We live in extraordinary times. Please share as widely as you wish. Remember Niemoller: “First they came for the…”

This just in from a c.70 yr old member of my #climbing club who was arrested this weekend for peacefully caring about inequality, injustice and suffering.

#Palestine #Gaza #Action
#PoliceState
#OreadMC
#PalestineAction

Please share.

We pumped extra CO₂ into an oak forest and discovered trees will be ‘woodier’ in future But this is no long-term solution for storing carbon.

Interesting results of study on CO2 and forests in the UK. theconversation.com/we-pumped-ex...

“Toxic lead ammunition is history”, charities celebrate major win for wildlife At a critical time for nature, the government has made the historic decision to finally ban poisonous lead ammunition in outdoor shooting across Great Britain, throwing a lifeline to some of the count...

At long last we are close to this happening - just need the government to implement it promptly now! www.wwt.org.uk/news-and-sto...

Great to hear about Golden Eagles returning to Cumbria and Northumberland from Mike Pratt of @northwildlife.bsky.social on R4 Today this morning.

A few finds from our Gait Barrows field trip, speckled yellow, Duke, rose chafer, Microdon mutabliis ant hill hoverfly @savebutterflies.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social

Out yesterday with the #Tanyptera team yesterday, installing vane traps on a site in N Lancs. Excited to see what saproxylic insects we find over the year.

There are loads of active recorders out there - how about nominating someone? nbn.org.uk/news-events-...

Sounds really interesting, but unfortunately behind a pay wall.

Excellent job opportunity for an entomologist. ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Great to see the new building at Lunt Meadows yesterday. Thanks Lancashire Wildlife Trust and your team and volunteers. Brilliant job.

Leveraging Biodiversity Net Gain to address invertebrate declines in England Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a new approach to infrastructural development in England, mandating that developers achieve a 10% BNG by enhancing and creating habitats. As currently implemented, BNG...

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New paper - England’s Biodiversity Net Gain policy could easily and inadvertently harm invertebrate populations because it doesn’t value habitats, condition, connectivity, or scale in ways that invertebrate populations respond positively to.

Attended my first BRC recording scheme conference in York today. Great to be part of monitoring change in our wildlife, even if a lot is quite negative at present. But not all...

Flea treatments are turning our pets into an environmental hazard – there has to be a better way | Sophie Pavelle Startling evidence of the dangers to birds and rivers from over-the-counter drugs should be a wake-up call for owners to press for alternatives, says writer Sophie Pavelle

A flea treatment of a medium-sized dog contains enough pesticide to kill 60 million bees

About 80% of the UK total of 22 million cats & dogs get regular over-the-counter worm & flea treatment, whether suffering from an infestation or not

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I do the same. I can't think of any reason not to. I assume they're bots or scammers.

I've just deactivated my Twitter account - 30 days and it'll be dead, deceased, be no more, ceased to be, it will be an ex-X!! 🤣 - I hope...

The Bulloak Jewell butterfly is one of many invertebrate species at risk of extinction in Australia.

Between 1-3 invertebrate species are going extinct in Australia every week, a new study finds.

“This matters to every person as invertebrates are the foundation of all healthy environments and a livable planet,” said lead author Prof John Woinarski.

@jessmarsh.bsky.social 🌍🧪

I assume that they want me to follow them, which I never do, so I'll never know why. Hope I'm right thinking of them as 'mostly harmless'?

We held the 1st Lancashire Wildlife Recorders Conference at Blackburn College today. 70 enthusiastic people, huge success. Lots of great presentations.

Study done in Germany, but an important habitat around Morecambe Bay too.

And they are 1000s of times more toxic than DDT! Now they are spreading through our rivers, are they in other ecosystems,