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Congratulations @penrhynbirder.bsky.social ,well deserved.

So many godwits in flight over Middlemere, RSPB Arne today. We thought they were spooked by a marsh harrier, but apparently, it was a peregrine.
@harbourbirds.bsky.social
@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
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Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct.
How did we let this happen?
What lessons are there for the future?
WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#extinction #ornithology

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National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

And Labour aren't exactly showing leadership in this area either! Worrying signs of a political race to the bottom.

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

but not wanting to do anything much about it. Just take a moment to think about that means for your children and grandchildren. Utterly morally bankrupt!

Badenoch makes false claims in attack on Climate Change Act - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment Bob Ward unpicks Kemi Badenoch's announcement this week that the Conservative Party would repeal the Climate Change Act of 2008 if they win a majority at the next General Election.

Boris Johnson's only saving grace as a Prime Minister was his commitment to tackling Climate Change (imperfect as it was). But the Conservatives are now heading to a moronic position of accepting that Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity 1/2

www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Afraid not Julian! The only witness was my wife who by this stage of our walk was fed up with me stopping to peer into every bush (lots of chiffchaff!) and just carried on walking!

It's better than the photo I failed to get in spite of running around the grassland above Seacombe after a Clouded Yellow this afternoon!

My first and likely last Clouded Yellow of the year above Seacombe on the Jurassic Coast this afternoon. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

Spotted Flycatcher and Willow Warbler still in the farm fields at #RSPBArne joined by a very smart Whinchat. @rspbengland.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

UN Secretary-General: 'Clean is competitive, and climate action is imperative' Antonio Guterres hits back at President Trump's dismissal of climate science and clean tech, arguing 'science compels climate action' and 'clean energy is powering jobs, growth and sustainable develop...

UN Secretary-General unequivocal on what is needed from governments to tackle the climate crisis. Clear, concise, rooted in reality, and optimistic. The antithesis of the speech Trump gave to the UN yesterday.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4519488...

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

Two spotted flycatchers and a pied flycatcher in one old willow tree, with willow warbler, chiffchaff, swallows and 12 stonechats at #RSPBArne today. All making the most of the insects on the wing in today's warm weather @rspbengland.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Nice afternoon on rspb arnes shipstal trail watching an osprey attempting to fish from the hide, then on way back to the car, we had a very quick view of the wryneck at the Dumbledore trail 🪶 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Plans to build Solent Gateway 2 on Dibden Bay near Southampton ABP said the proposed new terminal between Marchwood and Hythe would not be used by container ships.

Sigh, here we go again... Dibden Bay is a SSSI, important for overwintering birds. #Solent

Good news! Natural England pulls the plug on ‘reintroduction’ of Hen Harriers to southern England It’s been a long time coming, but today Natural England has announced it is finally pulling the plug on it’s project to ‘reintroduce’ Hen Harriers to southern England. It ma…

This was a massive distraction project, intended to draw attention away from the ongoing illegal killing on northern UK grouse moors.

Maybe now NE & Defra will put their (our!) money where it really needs to go - on ramped up enforcement.

#RaptorResearch

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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages, and calls on member countries to punish those responsible

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

On the borrow pits that will become the saline lagoons in the west of the site. They flew away from the site, perhaps back to the Frome?

5 Glossy Ibis at #RSPBArneMoors this afternoon, presumably the group that has been in the Frome Valley recently. Exciting to see them as we design breeding habitat that would be suitable for them in future! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

More sightings of ospreys and eagles than of the pigs recently!

It's such a novelty to see Republicans finally caring about a shooting at a school.

"And are the NGOs prepared to look their membership in the eye and say, this is what needs to be done?" is an odd rhetorical question when most conservation NGOs already do exactly this, undertaking targeted culls and telling their members why they're doing it.

Passage starts meanwhile another threat was already present in physical form. Full link below.

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