William (Bill) Sutherland

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Butterfly hollows for species recovery

Amazing success story for chalkhill blue butterfly population expansion and abundance
Brilliant work and effort by @jakefiennes.bsky.social
Agriculture and nature working brilliantly together

Another lovely video by @billsutherland.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Butterfly hollows for species recovery

Trying to discuss butterfly hollows and grazing with Jake Fiennes but interrupted by a swarm of chalkhill blue butterflies! youtu.be/jdX-PxyP56c?...

Evidence map, led by Paignton Zoo, cataloguing the scientific evidence behind 424 management interventions to help zoos and aquariums make decisions based on the best available science.
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YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts The Power of Art in Conservation

The Society of Wildlife Art have a wonderful project at Massingham Heath rewilding project, Norfolk. Here Amie Haslam and Brin Edwards explain the project. youtu.be/hiCQiSHuaG4?...

Returned to Cambridge from Botswana at the crack of dawn and before I could even brush my teeth @billsutherland.bsky.social had me filming horses and hay outside Kings for his next Conservation Concepts episode! I do love Cambridge summers

Tonight I’ll be giving a webinar for the fine folk at Birds on Farms, summarising the multitudinous benefits of mistletoe to birds. It’s free and open to all comers. Clink on the link to register
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Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences.

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Part time chair of Chair of Forestry Commission sought. Really important opportunity for someone to make a real difference.
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YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Mangrove adaptations and importance

Last video explains the neat adaptations of mangroves to their difficult environment, why mangroves are so important and why so many restoration projects fail.
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YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts How many species are there on earth?

With the wonderful Erica McAlister discussing the challenges of counting the number of species on Earth.
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YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Strangler figs explained: keystone killers of the canopy

Explaining the role of the spectacular strangler fig, how they strength host trees, but then kill them, and how they benefit a range of species. youtu.be/Ooez41dBQNg?...

The difference in temperature between these black and white stripes indicates the key concept of albedo: that some objects reflect light, so look white and are cool. Other objects have low albedo, as they absorb light rather than reflect it, and so look dark and are warm. This has a wide range of ec Albedo and its environmental consequences

The zebra crossing on London's Abbey Road made famous by #TheBeatles is the location for a 4-minute video by ‪@billsutherland.bsky.social‬ (Fellow 2008–23; Hon Fellow 2024) explaining the concept of albedo (the reflection of light) & its environmental consequences: www.youtube.com/watc...

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Why Walls Matter for Conservation & Urban Biodiversity

Much enjoy walls and the fascinating species. Here I discuss their ecology based at Bury St Edmund’s Abbey ruins. youtu.be/BF-IrmqLO-Q?...

Have now added three references to the video description. Good luck.

want to be the Project Officer for the Newmarket Chalk Streams Trust and help protect our wonderful chalk streams?
newmarketchalkstreamtrust.co.uk/vacancy/

When I awoke yesterday, wasn't expecting a gratis #fish manicure from the kind Minnows & Gudgeon enjoying the base of the new fish pass at Turf Lock, Mildenhall! Come tomorrow, Fri 5-7pm, to free event at Mildenhall Cricket Club to celebrate the new fish pass! brecks.org/events/turf-... #MySwim 1/17

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Conservation triage: prioritising actions with limited resources

Hugh Possingham explaining that we are already carrying out triage in focussing on a limited set of species, why we should prioritise actions rather than species and how this approach has resulted in more species being protected for the same budget.
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Delight to be back in the River Wissey & seeing Chub again (they've been rather absent from Wissey tributary the Old Carr Stream/Stringside & lower reaches of #Rivers Little Ouse & Lark) - including a huge shoal of small ones, here mixing with Roach. #MySwim #Norfolk #TeamFish #fishsky #fish 🧵1/10

Parasitic plants - YouTube Mistletoes, yellow rattle, broomrapes and many others are parasites. These videos describe the ecology and conservation

Playlist of 8 videos on the amazing ecology of parasitic plants: yellow rattle, broomrapes, mistletoes, climbing plants and more to come.
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Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

25th Student Conference in Conservation Science, Cambridge, 31 March – 2 April 2026. Looking for postgraduate students and early-career conservation scientists, in a broad range of fields, to apply to present talks or posters on their work.
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Very interesting- not a quick trick! I gather it can reduce yield of some of these crops by 70%.

Interesting. They are exploring way of tricking them into germinating in the absence of the host as one approach.

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Host-specific broomrapes: the role of strigolactone cocktails

How do broomrapes find their hosts? How can they specialise on different hosts? Enter the astonishing world of strigolactones
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There was also a couple of mighty Tench (Tinca tinca) about in the River Little Ouse by Lakenheath Fen, cruising around like great submarines, among the streams of good-sized Roach, over the Yellow Water-lily-scape, already quite tatty.
#rivers #fishsky #teamfish #fish #norfolk #suffolk
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Someone kindly sent details of a beechwood with masses on bird-nest orchid in Surrey? near M25. But somehow lost details before replying. Any thoughts anyone - or kind initial responder? Will they still be in flower? Thanks.

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Marsupials to birds: the strange history of mistletoe dispersal

Third and last fascinating mistletoe video. Dave Watson describes how they evolved from being a root parasite dispersed by small mammals and their key role in the evolution of birds. Enjoy! youtu.be/Y25baiIEWEY?...

Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synth...

Our piece on the poisoning of the literature. Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fascinating insight into the ecological importance of parasitic plants! Let’s have more mistletoe.

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Mistletoe's fundamental ecological importance

Because of their parasitic habit, mistletoes are cool and full of nutrients e.g. apes love feeding on them. Adding 15% mistletoe to Australian leaf litter doubles insects. Removing mistletoe reduces birds by 30%. Is the same is true of European species?
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Blundered into Tench City on River Little Ouse below Lakenheath Fen. Or rather, in 625m several of these Incredible Hulks almost blundered into me. Their eyesight doesn't seem great & each time I took them by surprise. See those muscles ripple! #MySwim #Rivers #Fishsky #Teamfish #fish #Suffolk 🧵1/23