Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

This is worse than I thought. While this is about England, you can be sure if it suceeds there, the pressure will be on the Scottish Government to do the same.

Shame on our UK Government for selling our nature and destroying OUR countryside 😡😡😡

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"The push to farm all available land to produce as much food as possible during WW2 continues into the current subsidy system. Even when farmers want to leave marginal and hard-to-manage areas alone, the subsidy system drives them to keep fighting nature."
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Vampire bats’ mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America

🦇 Grooming rabies away

A new study finds vampire bats can lick rabies vaccines off each other, spreading immunity through grooming. 88% of a colony was vaccinated in days.

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#SciComm #Zoonoses 🧪

A new generation takes flight: first baby bats of 2025 - News - Bat Conservation Trust It’s official: the first baby bats of 2025 have arrived! We know this not through field surveys or technology, but thanks to people like you — members of the public who’ve followed our advice after en...

We've had the first reports of baby bats being born in England, Scotland and Wales. READ MORE HERE: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/06...

Skyrocketing mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of wider spread Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022.

Sierra Leone has confirmed 15 deaths and more than 3,000 mpox infections

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Join us to demand that our MSPs stand up for nature.

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My first paper!! If you wanna know about woodland creation 🌳, beetles 🪲, and the effects of agriculture 🚜 - go here!

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#BeetleEcology #WoodlandCreation #Conservation #Research #FirstAuthor #Ecology

Planning and Infrastructure Bill - ask your MP to stop this licence to kill Ask your MP to prevent the Planning and Infrastructure Bill from causing irreversible damage The government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is moving through Parliament right now. It includes propo...

Over 800 people have already contacted their MP. Thank you for speaking up against the governments licence to kill.

We need to keep the pressure up to that the government will listen to its own evidence. Please share with anyone who cares about nature.

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TBG members out surveying a brown long eared bat roost for the National Bat Monitoring Programme (NBMP) 😀

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Another beaver talk done 💪 This time in Crook of Devon, in the vanguard of beaver advance. One more talk in Balmaha on the 14th and then thats them finished until the autumn.

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In order to address the climate and biodiversity crises, we need our leaders to be taking clear and bold actions to restore nature at scale, while creating benefits for people.

Read the SRA's media statement👇
https://www.rewild.scot/scrapping-plans-for-a-Galloway-National-Park

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Fire crews rescue bat caught in fishing line in Great Bowden The bat was caught in a tree and is now rehabilitating, says Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital.

Well done to all involved in this bat rescue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NBMP annual report 2024 was published today: second year of concern over short-term trends www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/05... @jncc.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @bbcscience.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @nation.cymru

Who would have thought wildfires could come to Scotland? 🔥

Yet this year drought and fire have been very real issues.

Could beavers be used alongside agriculture in Scotland to help water retention and protect crops or livestock from wildfires? 👀💭

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he may ban government scientists from publishing in top medical journals, the latest move in the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific institutions.

This is not good 😢

🦇The National Bat Helpline is officially in its peak season and, therefore, operating an Out of Hours service for emergency bat care and crime calls only.

As well as our normal weekday service, our volunteers will also answer calls from 6pm - 10pm and from 10am-10pm on weekends and bank holidays.

A cretin of the highest order. A total embarassment to his country and complete insult to all soldiers of the country he is destroying.

Discover your local bats - an introduction to the NBMP FREE training on how to survey for bats, followed by a bat walk to practice identifying local species!

Discover Your Local Bats workshop coming to Blairgowrie on Sat 24th May!

No experience necessary and ideal for learning a bit about bats and how to take part in citizen science surveying and monitoring them in your local area/garden 😀

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Lovely peaceful evening last night taking a lovely couple of marine biologists out on a beaver tour 😀

Babies on board! See the twin bumps in this roundleaf bat's tummy. Although her babies will be almost 1/3 of her body weight at birth, she is increadibly agile and only slows her flight a little. (Photo captured in Kasanka National Park, Zambia last week). 📷🌍🦇😍 #nature #bats #wildlife #photography

Could beavers be the secret to winning the fight against wildfires? First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes.

Fantastic science-based article on beavers in National Geographic 😀

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Last nights bat survey which was a lovely peaceful evening surveying a very old house and steading built in the 1660s.

Two common pipistrelles were foraging round this building, occasionally meeting in the middle and chasing each other furiously 😀

Starmer's claims about nuclear regulation 'not true' In his bid to boost nuclear power, the prime minister Keir Starmer ignored warnings from his nuclear safety watchdog.

Starmer’s claims about nuclear regulation ‘not true’
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The relationship between bats and trees runs far deeper than a safe place to rest. Learn about the many ways that trees provide critical resources for bats in our latest blog post. www.batcon.org/bats-need-tr...

Worried about picking up extra germs at the ER? 🦠That’s exactly what infection control helps avoid.

In yet another reckless move, the Trump Administration just eliminated the CDC committee that sets hospital safety standards.