Catherine Duigan

It was wonderful to have been part of this great adventure!

Historic moment for Welsh beavers | North Wales Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trusts in Wales and Beaver Trust warmly welcome new Welsh Government legislation recognising the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) as a native species and granting it protected status – a ma...

Great news! From today the Eurasian #beaver is a protected species & recognised as a native species in Wales! 💚

Thank you @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social & @joycewatson.org.uk, our Species Champion for Beavers, for helping this day to become a reality!
🎉 @beaverafanc.bsky.social

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Small rough stone shop building with wide door and multipane display window outlined in light green; slate roof; squat chimney.

The ancient market and mill town of #Dolgellau - with #houses of solid #stone, stout #doors and a great variety of #windows.

#WednesdayWindows #Wales #architecture #wool 🐑 #textiles #flannel #geology #shop #windowswednesday #photography #travel #envhist

Beaver showing its orange teeth by Nick Upton/Cornwall Wildlife Trust

Did you know that beavers have orange teeth? 🦫

And no, it’s not because they don’t brush them! The enamel in their teeth actually contains iron which they get from their food and this gives them the strength to gnaw through wood. 🪵

Learn more 👉
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/.../mammals/beaver

Under Salt Marsh - Cymru noir for the #anthropocene with many recognisable locations in North Wales.

Thanks for the Kind Words from @cduigan.bsky.social

Dappled sunlight through very clear water on stony streambed.

Words, walking, water - Great to see the strong environmental focus in upcoming celebrations of #Aberystwyth Ceredigion’s recognition as Wales’s first Dinas Llên / City of #Literature - come join us!
#rivers #environment #landscape #ecology #art #poetry #UNESCO
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#wildflowerhour

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day!

In celebration of the feast day of the patron saint of Wales, please enjoy these photos of daffodils outside and inside some of our churches in Wales.

📷 St Mary's, Penllech, Gwynedd

British ambassador Kara Owen: ‘There is one particular part of Ireland I’d always go to. It is beautiful’ Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

More Irish than the Irish themselves?

Kara Owen, the British Ambassador to #Ireland, sounds right at home. 🍵
#diplomacy #UK #Britain

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Painting featuring a green field full of purple crocus flowers and yellow daffodils

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
#spring #March

Old Irish Goat carries 3,000 years of Irish history

🐐🧬 New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.

The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia.

@gingerhowley.bsky.social

Thousands of dead puffins are washing up on Europe’s beaches – why it’s been such a dangerous winter for seabirds Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.

Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.

Screenshot of a Facebook message about the book Lighthouses of Wales

Have you got your copy yet? Order a signed copy of my book Lighthouses of Wales direct from me at: lighthouses.wales/lighthouses-...

“Plan of the river at Conway in the county of Caernarvon"

Map yn dangos Conwy cyn i pont crog Thomas Telford chael ei hadeiladu. Ar y map gallwch weld ynys 'Claimed by Sir Roger Mostyn Bart.' lle adeiladwyd tŵr gogleddol y bont

Dyddiad: cyn 1796 Most/7289

Painting of two birds interacting while perched on a tree branch, one above the other, one colourful, the other white

Sarah Stone (c. 1759–1844), pioneering English natural history painter, best known for her detailed 18th-century watercolours of exotic birds - the first British female painter of birds and animals to gain professional recognition #womensart

A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖

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View from land across Cromarty Firth, Scotland on overcast day; several oil rigs visible offshore with rig under construction in foreground

#Fieldwork encapsulates #time and #place - encountering #oil #industry infrastructure in #Cromarty Firth #Scotland - April 1988

#envhist #Scotland #NorthSea #hydrocarbons #engineering #gas #oilrig #seascape #energy #offshore #climatechange #drillingrig #FossilFuels #SPA #nature #conservation

Two peacocks next to each other in a grassy field

'Peacocks in a Field ' by Irish painter Mildred Anne Butler 1858- 1941) known for animal and bird subjects #Womensart

February 24,1907, birthday of Marjorie Courtaney-Latimer.
In 1938, working as a museum curator in the town of East London (South Africa), she made an incredible discovery in a large catch of fresh fish -a living coelacanth 🐟

"Estonian flies the flag" headline in the Shetland Times, 23 August 1991, with black and white image of fish factory captain; superimposed by colour image of factory ship with fishing boat alongside in Lerwick Harbour, Shetland; overcast day; rolling green hills; grey harbour water.

#Fieldwork encapsulates #time and #place - collecting #zooplankton while failed coup attempt on President #Gorbachev caused changing of flags on #Soviet fish factory ships in #Lerwick Harbour #Shetland - August 1991.

#naturalhistory #politics #SovietUnion #Fishing #Scotland #ecology #freshwater

Watercolour sketch of single yellow flower surrounded by green leaves on brown background

"I must enter into a World of Form and Colour. My World."
Gwen John 1928
#AmgueddfaCymru

Primula vulgaris, Briallu #primrose
#Springtime #Wales #wildflowerhour #Sunday
#nature #wellbeing #Welshart #drawing #flowers #botany

Black Waters: The Sea Empress Disaster In 1996, an oil tanker called the Sea Empress ran aground on the Pembrokeshire coast, spilling its contents and causing an environmental disaster that shocked the UK and the world.

Really powerful BBC documentary just out about the 1996 Sea Empress disaster in Pembrokeshire. Highly recommended. What a disaster to be reminded of...

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

February 21, 1993, died on this day aged 105 years, Danish seismologist Inge Lehman.
She discovered that the Earth has a inner core announcing it in 1936 with the shortest title for a paper ever: P' - after the seismic discontinuity between core and mantle shown by the P-waves

A dead Puffin lies on wet sand, its black and white feathers darkened and slick against the beach. The bird rests on its side, wings folded, with its distinctive orange bill clearly visible against the pale sand.

Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield.

It is devastating to see.

These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure.

Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

Based on his observations made along the England–Wales border, he proposed to add a new geologic period distinguished by fossils of gastropods, crinoids (sea-lilies) and trilobites, naming it Silurian after an ancient Welsh tribe...
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February 19, 1792, birthday of Scottish naturalist Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). He geologized in old Scotland, Wales, Germany and Russia
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‘A taste of home’: The Irish women who have launched a community network in Wales to celebrate Irish culture Irish Women's Network Wales had already signed up 94 members ahead of the launch event at the Irish consulate in Cardiff Bay

Irish Women's Network Wales - looking forward to more shared intergenerational stories of #migration and to making more connections between #Ireland and #Wales.
#culture #heritage #community

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Pints, prayers and horse racing on the beach: Martin Parr in rural Ireland – in pictures The iconic photographer believed his two years shooting horse fairs, pubs and dance halls in the 1980s had been overlooked. A new exhibition aims to put that right

Pints, prayers and horse racing on the beach: Martin Parr in rural Ireland – in pictures

Some of Britain's earliest #bird #photographs by Harry Morrey Salmon on display #Cardiff - great example of #envhist images #Wales - congratulations to @cardiffnats.bsky.social & #AmgueddfaCymru

#ornithology #WelshBirds #birdphotography #wildlife #AdarCymru #naturalhistory #heritage #environment