#job: The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources in the Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, invites applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Silviculture and Climate Change Adaption. 🗓️Application deadline: 31 August 2026 ➡️Details: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Mangroces bring excellent coastal protection and rich breeding grounds for fish

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 6d ago

Mangrove forests were long viewed as expendable, and turned into rice paddies, oil palm plantations, fish farms and even rubbish tips. But since 2010, they have expanded globally by more than 2,000 km2. That's *great* news for wildlife, climate and people. theconversation.com/the-worlds-m...

Regular immersion in wild nature is a basic human right that's denied to far too many, with disastrous consequences for mental health. Rewilding isn't only a vital lifeline for nature, but for *us*.

Welcome to the Butterfly Buffet! Today's special: Tree sap 🦋🌳 Flower nectar is an important source of energy for many adult butterflies and moths, but some also have a taste for tree sap, aphid honeydew, rotting fruit and even animal dung! 📹: Charlotte Brooks

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Hidden secrets in the world’s most northerly rainforests

While there are no monkeys swinging through the trees in rainforests closer to the poles, these forests are every bit as endangered as their southern cousins, and highly diverse – if you know where to...

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Sue Quick@sequick.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧪Learning about boreal rainforest fragments under threat. ( Though haven't see them as I'm in Finnmark)May interest @irishrainforest.bsky.social & @guyshrubsole.bsky.social our temperate rainforest gurus. partner.sciencenorway.no/biodiversity...

🧪Learning about boreal rainforest fragments under threat. ( Though haven't see them as I'm in Finnmark)May interest @irishrainforest.bsky.social & @guyshrubsole.bsky.social our temperate rainforest gurus. partner.sciencenorway.no/biodiversity...

🧪Great to find that my daughter-in-law has great knowledge in edible fungi #foraging here in Kirkenes

Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires (and why the Telegraph is unsurprisingly wrong): spectator.com/article/rewi...

Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires

Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.

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Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...

‼️Breaking: Almost three-quarters of English riverbanks have no right of access. Our new investigation has found that 71% of riverbanks in England have no right of access on either bank. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The summer ☀️ still doth tend upon my state🌳 And I do love thee Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.1.80-81 #shakespearesunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #befriendatree #treefriend @ticl.me

A Postcard from the Subtropical Dry Forests is here! 🌿✉️ Where forests survive by following the rhythm of the seasons. 🌳☀️ Stay tuned for more Forest Letters 🌿📩 #ForestEcology #ForestLetters #SubtropicalDryForests #Biodiversity @britishecologicalsociety.org

How will Britain's favourite butterfly fare in this year's #BigButterflyCount? Help us find out 👉 bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

@s4r4h-l@s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 4w ago

#FlutterbyFriday Shades of peacock #butterfly, how will they fare in this year's #BigButterflyCount? These seen in the last few days, love the range from pinky lilac to electric blue. #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social #vitaminN

Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree Pericles 1.1.114 #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social @botanicalshax.bsky.social @splatsentertain.bsky.social @theroyalparks.bsky.social

TiCL 🍃💚🍃@ticl.me · 3w ago

‘London from Greenwich Park’ painted in 1809 at One Tree Hill by J.M.W. Turner Turner wrote of the view ‘ … where thy spires pierce the doubtful air, As gleams of hope amidst a world of care’ @theroyalparks.bsky.social

Rather an important update on claims that Burnham may be about to approve North Sea drilling… Ill-informed original reporting? A u-turn caused by campaigning? Let’s see what Monday brings, and obviously keep pushing. Fossil fuels? Andy, don’t Burn’em… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jackdaw gasfield would create only 27 direct full-time jobs, documents show Also, nice work by Fossil Free London on their banner: “Fossil Fuels? Andy, don’t Burn’em” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jackdaw gasfield would create only 27 direct full-time jobs, documents show

Campaigners say field will bring minimal benefit for UK economy, as industry lobbies Burnham for go-ahead

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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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It’s a plane tree 🌳 … and it’s HUGE 😍 …. but can anyone confirm for me …. is this Ipswich’s BIGGEST plane ? 🤔 Is this the Ipswich #jumbo … or do you know bigger ? 🤩 #jumboplane @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkuk.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social @suffolkarchives.bsky.social

TiCL 🍃💚🍃@ticl.me · 4w ago

But what about where YOU live in the 🇬🇧 ? Show me your town’s #jumboplane 🐘 🌳

Also with my other 'cheer me ups'...

Sue Quick@sequick.bsky.social · 4w ago

Gloves might seem a strange birthday present (we normally don't bother any more). I'm just recovering from a badly infected thorn injury ( gardener's finger) so very happy!

Gloves might seem a strange birthday present (we normally don't bother any more). I'm just recovering from a badly infected thorn injury ( gardener's finger) so very happy!

With news of a major fire in Killarney National Park, here's an image from 2021, when large swathes, incl. trees, were incinerated. Just as the current scorching heat is not natural, nor are these regular conflagrations, caused by decades of severe overgrazing by invasive sika and goats. How so? 🧵

A fantastic set of books on the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social longlist this year: including @nicolawriting.bsky.social's Ghosts of the Farm, @drmjwarren.bsky.social's The Cuckoo's Lea, @lucylapwing.bsky.social's Love Is A Toad, & Luke Barley's Ancient. Congrats! 💚 wainwrightprize.com/news/2026-lo...

2026 Longlist Announcement - Wainwright Prize

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OK, any UK-based tree and plant enthusiasts in my followers? I'm looking for a Pacific Yew tree (taxus brevifolia), sometimes known as a California Yew. It's not the same as our indigenous yew trees. I'm seeking an example I can photograph in the UK, accessible via public transport

Fossil fuel answer to the heatwaves? Rewrite the rules. 🇳🇿 New Zealand could block climate lawsuits against major polluters. 🇪🇺 The EU could label new oil and gas expansion as “green". Both decisions are days away. Both can still be stopped. Read how: r.sib.wedonthavetime.org/mk/mr/sh/1t6...

Last chance to apply for this fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarship on forest structural assessment using terrestrial LiDAR @ucc.ie. The project includes an industry placement and an overseas secondment for training. Deadline 5 July. www.ucc.ie/en/bees/rese...

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How many Irish people have ever experienced the wonder of old-growth natural forest in our own country? Given that it now covers less than 0.1% (<1/1,000th) of Ireland, likely only a tiny few. What a terribly sad thought. Allowing surviving remnants to expand naturally should be a *top* priority.

What's this? A Red Admiral has fluttered onto your feed to let you know that the Big Butterfly Count is just 1 week away! Are you in? Get ready to count 👉 https://butrfli.es/3SVFepj 📷: Michael Preston

A new paper from the BIFoR-FACE #LTE at @unibirmingham.bsky.social shows that elevated CO2 increases the biomass & changes the morphology of the fine roots of trees. This implies that forests adapt to the increased CO2 & remain a carbon sink. Read the paper: tinyurl.com/2sj8ccea 🌏🍁

We have awarded a maintenance grant to Andy Hector at @ox.ac.uk & Kadmiel Maseyk at @openuniversity.bsky.social towards equipment replacement & maintenance costs at the RainDrop #LTE. The award is also supported by the @rambleworldwide.bsky.social. bit.ly/RainDropECT 🌏

Fantastic news www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/news/special...

Special delivery: white storks make historic return to the Midlands | Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has announced an ambitious new project to reintroduce white storks and establish a healthy breeding population in the Midlands, more than 600 years after they vanished from t...

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