Alistair Whitby

That's a wrap!

Fantastic to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks project completed with initial ditch maintenance. 🚜👷💪

Next year's work aims to improve the ecological health & restore wet habitats of the floodplain grazing marsh. 🐦👌🐄

Great partnership with @LewesDistrictCouncil and @SDNP 👏

Vast areas of peatland destroyed since peat ban announced exactly 3 years ago | The Wildlife Trusts It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban.

Every day the government delays banning the sale of peat compost means more carbon lost to the atmosphere from this appalling practice

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...

Study backs reintroduction of Golden Eagle to England Golden Eagle could soon return to England, with a Forestry England study expected to confirm there is enough habitat to support the species' reintroduction. Once persecuted to extinction, the birds may follow the success of Scotland's reintroduction programme, which has grown the population to more than 50 pairs. DEFRA says plans will consider ecological impacts and public engagement, marking a major step for the UK's most iconic bird of prey.

Golden Eagle may soon be reintroduced in England, following the results feasibility study by Forestry England:

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues

Data shows more than 1 million hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Scotland has so much to be proud of. But there’s something missing – something extraordinary...

More info www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scotland
🎶 by Beluga Lagoon, 🎬 SCOTLAND:The Big Picture

Scotland - looking wonderful here. Young trees, mature trees and dead trees. Closed canopy, open areas and moor. This is a landscape where grazing pressure has been matched to the carrying capacity of the land.

A scorching but successful week of river remeandering. Four new berms completed 🙌 💦🐟

Huge thanks to our awesome volunteers, who've gone above and beyond the call of duty!💪🔥💪

So gratifying to see Kingfishers visiting the newly enhanced sections every day! 🐦

This spring has been a proper wildlife adventure

Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK Professor John Robertson OBA From Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2024, published today A record 38.4 TWh of renewable electricity was generated in Scotland in 2024 – a 13.2% increase compared …

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Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK – Talking-up Scotland

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#ClimateAction

A fantastic end to #INNSWeek with two days of removing non-native species from one of our precious chalk streams! 🌱💦💪

Two truckloads of Himalayan Balsam, Cotoneaster, Leylandii, Cherry laurel, Crocosmia, Spanish bluebells, & Box-leaved honeysuckle removed from the Lewes Winterbourne!

Top effort 👏

Another week of lovely nature and wildlife encounters while out restoring Sussex rivers.

This was the longest slow worm I've ever seen!

#wildlife

It looks like there's snow on the rainforest floor in May, but it's actually massed willow seed, drifting on the air.

Every one of these countless magic fairy dust packets of DNA has the potential to be a magnificent old tree, supporting a highly diverse, living ecosystem. 🌏

Exactly how does a UK customs officer know whether beef has been reared using excessive amounts of antibiotics in a factory farm where it is rammed up against its neighbours and never sees a blade of grass?

It's #NationalHedgerowWeek! 🌳🌳🌳

Hedgerows play a vital role in enhancing rivers, creating corridors, slowing surface water & filtering pollutants. 🐟💦🌱

We're looking for opportunities to create new hedgerows like these ones we planted in 2020.

Get in touch to find out more: info@oart.org.uk 🌳🌳

Make something good come of the moronic felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, with the culprits now convicted.

The Woodland Trust is calling on Ministers to bring in new legislation so that important trees are listed for protection like historical buildings are:

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

These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.

It's been a lovely week in the Sussex countryside doing river and wetland work and enjoying the stunning #bluebells!

I think this graph of wind and solar looks narwhal-esk

@leahstokes.bsky.social

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’

"The Treasury is driving this false wedge between homes + nature...but we have been working with housing developers for years + years in harmony...good companies want nature around the new-builds. It improves...mental health...reduces flooding, provides shade."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spring is well and truly getting underway at our restored EPIC chalk stream site. Exciting to see Snake's head fritillary and cowslips up.

Our reptile survey setup was rewarded with slow worm sightings. The brook is looking great with ramshorns, starwort, blue water speedwell & newts aplenty!

YouTube video by The Scottish Rewilding Alliance Why Not Scotland? | The Rewilding Nation documentary

Watch our stunning film and tell me what you think. youtube.com/watch?v=FFyp...

Baffles, berms & backwaters!

Fantastic day spent with @seriverstrust.bsky.social sharing experience on their Chamber Mead wetlands and Hogsmill river projects!💧💪

Some great learning on dead hedges, rock ramp fish passes, and stream restoration 🐟💦👌

Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for Louisiana coastal damage in landmark trial The jury delivered its verdict in the landmark case, which sought to make Chevron pay to restore an area of coastal wetlands near Bayou Gentilly.

BFD! Louisiana jury orders Chevron to pay $747 million for environmental damages, funds sorely needed for coastal wetland restoration. With no irony, Industry leader says this will have a "chilling effect" on economic (i.e., oil and gas) activity. Guest link.
www.nola.com/news/environ...

I kind of want to go

Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants

There is simply NO rational justification for this other than the wholesale destruction of all national environmental and health protections and the protection of polluting industries.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Haha. Thanks, Carla. Good luck!

Very exciting to revisit berms we installed in the autumn on the Teville stream & find 12 inches of accumulated sediment. Some have even started sprouting native marginal plants! 💧🌱💪

Moorhen, kingfisher, stickleback & early damselfly all using the rewiggled habitat!

#MakeRiversBendAgain

Really fun making a community wildlife pond with legendary wetland creator 'Pete the pond' last weekend. 🐸 💧🌱

So many good tips 👌