Joshua Styles

Meanwhile you’re arguing that restoration of an ancient woodland is something to reconsider.

There was nothing indecent in what I said. It is lunacy, and the fact that comments consistently ignore objective reality is testament to a lack of education.

Hear hear! 👏

And what exactly is ideological here? It sounds to me as though you’re upset over the openness of WT to discuss an inconvenient truth.

It sounds to me as though an education is what’s missing from those who work in forestry on this thread. Perhaps you ought to be speaking to them! 😊🌱

Fantastic work @wtscotsocial.bsky.social!! 😍🌱👏👏👏

The number of species plantations support is dwarved by the number which are supported by semi-natural habitats. To conclude anything less is only evidence of ignorance in the extreme.

You can disagree all you like. It doesn’t change the fact that afforestation accounts for 9% blanket bog loss, c20% loss of raised bog, 39% of existing ancient woodland loss (PAWS), the list is endless…

These are not only nationally, but frequently globally threatened habitats.

Translation: please don’t communicate objective facts about non-native conifer plantation in case the public realise the invonvenient truth 👏🌱

Thank you @wtscotsocial.bsky.social for educating!! It’s long overdue folks realise the damage non-native conifers do to ancient woods, alongside many of our other globally important habitats.

Please ignore the lunacy from the uneducated forester brigade 🌱❤️

You’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

Non-natives objectively support substantially less wildlife (take a gander on the BRC database cor insects and their food plants). Meanwhile, non-native conifers actively chemically modify soils and extirpate species. The world isn’t centred around squirrels.

Probably because it is an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain

Really disappointed to see this sort of deeply ignorant commentary from an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain TBH

Tis indeedy!!!!

I believe it does! Not been to see it for a while though

Over 400 acorns sown so far, collected from veteran oaks nearby, with lots more to go!

English oak (Quercus robur) supports >2,500 species, making it one of Britain’s most important trees for biodiversity — yet it’s far less common than it should be in Liverpool 🌱❤️

Absolutely the moon!

Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut Lancs Wildlife Trust reserve.

Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

Absolutely the moon!

Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut @Lancswildlife reserve.

Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

A major peat-former on fens and transition mires, bottle sedge (Carex rostrata) was all but extinct in Greater Manchester…

Having been growing an absolute tonne of this beaut all summer, today was the day it was planted out in this recovering @Lancswildlife reserve 😍🌱

Beautiful chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) on a veteran oak by me in Liverpool today 😍

First time ever seeing this absolute stunnerrr in Cumbria today - few-flowered sedge (Carex pauciflora)!

A specialist of blanket mires and poor fens, this lil beastie can be found at <15 places in England where it’s red-listed Near-Threatened 🌱❤️

Field of yellow wildflowers with green trees in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Field of wildflowers such as orchids, and buttercups prominent in the foreground, set against lush green foliage and an overcast sky.

Close-up of a Butterfly Orchid with multiple blossoms in a grassy field, set against a blurred background of grass and a partly cloudy blue sky.

Close-up of Cowslip with multiple small blossoms in a grassy field, featuring an insect on one blossom and a blurred background of scattered yellow flowers.

Irreplaceable meadows need protecting📢📢

We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows?

Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats.

#IrreplaceableMeadows

Has anyone else noticed it?

After years of waiting, it looks like we’re going to have a mast year with our native oaks!!!

I’ll be collecting acorns from veteran and ancient trees around Liverpool later this year for anyone or nurseries who would like some and would like to get in touch 🌱❤️

Spotted the striking (and pungent) bog myrtle (Myrica gale) in a Cumbrian upland fen yesterday.

Once common on the Manchester Mosses before industry wiped it out over a century ago, Lancs Wildlife Trust and I have been working to reintroduce it since 2019 😍🌱

Thanks Jon 🌱❤️

Last recorded >150 years ago in 1874, I was absolutely shocked to find oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia) at Abbots Moss in Cheshire!!

Not only is this beastie both rare and red-listed, this will soon probably be the last population in the entire county! 😱🌱❤️

It can be found in U4 grasslands with a pH of around 4.5 (ish) :P

Thanks so much Carla 🌱❤️

A once-common and abundant plant of grasslands, Dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) needs help.

For #NationalMeadowsDay, I’ve put a guide together on the propagation, reintroduction and management of this functionally important & imperilled beastie: nwrpi.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/...

A day early for #NationalMeadowsDay, but just look at this ancient wildflower meadow I stumbled upon in Staffordshire the other day!

Grasslands should be full of life like this beauty, but often fall silent. Restoring them is vital if we want to see nature recover 🌱❤️