Dr Lotty Packman 🦇
@lottypackman.bsky.social
Conservation Scientist (bat specialist) at Wild Wings Ecology | Associate at University of East Anglia | Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Delighted to be leading a free professional skills share workshop for the wonderful Eves Hill Veg Co on "Monitoring Biodiversity in the Market Garden" (16th March). Do sign up if you're keen to learn about ecological monitoring for veg growers & farmers + ideas for improving your site for wildlife.
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill has become law. Thanks to everyone who helped campaign against this regressive and ill thought out legislation. The government has committed to take an evidence based approach, we will continue holding them to account www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11... #bats 🦇
Nature protections do not block growth confirms cross-party committee - News - Bat Conservation Trust
New evidence reinforces concerns about anti-nature rhetoric and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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Our @climatemajority.bsky.social petition, calling for a National Climate Resilience Plan, is really starting to move - with 200 signatures in the last couple of days alone. Let's keep it going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…
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Good to see coverage of the spectre of ISDS outside the domain of academia. One way of responding to anti-environmental lawfare is fighting back with environmental liability litigation, as we argue here conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌏
Environmental liability litigation could remedy biodiversity loss
Many countries allow lawsuits to hold responsible parties liable for the environmental harm they cause. Such litigation remains largely untested in most biodiversity hotspots and is rarely used in re...
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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9mo agoI wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are a quarter of the way to our @biggive.bsky.social #AVoiceForBats #ChristmasChallenge target. Thank you to everyone who has donated already. This is a great opportunity to help 🦇 bat conservation by having your DONATIONS DOUBLED. Please share widely too #BatsNeedFriends #lovebats
Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · 9mo ago🦇 Our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge campaign 'A voice for bats' is live! For one week only (until midday, 9 December) every donation up to £10,000 will be DOUBLED. Donations must be made here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... . Every donation, big or small, helps. #GivingTuesday
What’s in the *bird* box? 🪺 🐦 A colony of Daubenton’s #bats! 🦇 They don’t read the labels! Lots of bats using “bird” boxes. Popped lid back on & left in peace. Monitoring under (bird & bat) licences. @batconservation.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social
A War on Climate Change: Are Environmental Activists Losing The Fight? (Chris Packham) - BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radical with Amol Rajan - A War on Climate Change: Are Environmental Activists Losing The Fight? (Chris Packham) - BBC Sounds
Chris Packham says conservationists like him have not done enough to protect nature.
bbc.co.uk
Great news for a critical life force in #Norfolk - recognising the importance of the wonderful yet beleaguered River Wensum! 💙 Well done @greenpartynorwich.bsky.social & Norwich City Council 👏 Let’s hope some serious #conservation ACTION follows… 🤞💪 www.edp24.co.uk/news/2565056...
'I flow, therefore I am?' Councillors get philosophical over bid to give river rights
A bid to better protect the River Wensum through supporting a movement to grant it legal rights has been approved unanimously by Norwich City…
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New study confirms that short wavelength light (UV & blue) attracts the most nocturnal insects & that intensity increases attraction for all colours. Longer wavelength & lower intensity outdoor lights should reduce biodiversity impacts resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #teammoth 🌍
This is so deeply disappointing. I really despair. A dark day for the UK’s precious wildlife and habitats. We need to be urgently stepping up protections, not recklessly discarding them… 🦇 🌳 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · 9mo agoA shameful step back for nature as UK Government pushes through damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill - @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/public-...
Fancy a permanent, part-time #Ecologist role working with the great Wendling Beck Nature Recovery Project @wendlingbeck.bsky.social in Norfolk? Hands-on role focused on habitat condition monitoring, adaptive management & stakeholder coordination. Details here👇 www.wendlingbeck.org/opportunitie...
Ecologist | Part-Time | Wendling Beck
Join Wendling Beck as a part-time Ecologist helping deliver large-scale biodiversity restoration in the UK.
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Our bat conservation manifesto sets out the minimum requirements needed to protect bats and their habitats www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bio...
Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪 Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
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The govt has stripped out crucial protections from the Planning & Infrastructure Bill. This includes measures to safeguard nature, prioritise brownfield land and give Parliament proper oversight. https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/government-strips-protections-from-the-planning-and-infrastructure-bill/
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
theguardian.com
A wonderful, insightful piece by @iainrobinson.bsky.social in latest issue of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. “GLOAMING” describes a woodland under threat from the (currently shelved 🤞) Norwich Western Link and its barbastelle #bat inhabitants. I’m touched to feature in the piece! 📹🦇🌳
They’ll be voting on this in the Commons *tomorrow* (Thur 13th Nov) so if you still haven’t contacted your MP please do so ASAP today! And confusingly Amendment 130 is now Amendment 40 😵💫 - so that needs clarifying too. @bengoldsborough.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social
Dr Lotty Packman 🦇@lottypackman.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis is URGENT and so important. Please do email your MP this weekend 👇🙏
Excellent #LawPodUK episode from @1crownofficerow.bsky.social ft leading environmental lawyer Carol Day from @leigh-day.bsky.social talking about significance of our recent High Court win against Natural England who had tried to increase our adverse costs cap #Aarhus audioboom.com/posts/880408...
Should rivers have rights? The Environmental Law Foundation and the costs of taking action in the courts
Rosalind English is joined by a panel of environmental law experts, Emma Montlake, Richard Wald KC and Carol Day to discuss the resources and help offered by the Enviromental Law Foundation to those w...
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Surprise surprise… explains why this bill is such a disaster for wildlife & their habitats. We need balanced and informed evidence-based decision making, not this biased, subjective nonsense. Really hoping my MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social will be voting in support of Amendment 130 🙏
People's Trust for Endangered Species@ptes-org.bsky.social · 10mo agoThose who harm wildlife are also likely to harm people 🚨 The @wclnews.bsky.social Wildlife Crime Report this year highlights that 59% of people who commit crimes against wildlife are also associated with other violent crimes Read more 👇 www.wcl.org.uk/wildlife-cri...
This is URGENT and so important. Please do email your MP this weekend 👇🙏
Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · 10mo agoAmendment 130 is the best chance to reduce the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s risks to bat conservation. You can read more here: buff.ly/ACYQzDY Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE
There are 1,500 scientifically described species of bats in the world, they account for more than a quarter of mammal species in the UK and around 20% of all mammal species worldwide. Bats play an important role in many habitats around the world. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w... #biodiversity #bats 🦇
Why bats matter - About Bats - Bat Conservation Trust
Bats play an important role in many habitats around the world. Some tropical plants depend partly or wholly on certain bat species to pollinate their fl...
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UN Environment Programme@unep.org · 10mo agoBiodiversity is the web of life that keeps our planet healthy. But it’s under threat from pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Explore more on what biodiversity is all about and the ongoing work to protect it for people and the planet: unep.org/unep-and-biodiversity
Spent the morning in a wonderful patch of wet woodland in @broadsnationalpark.bsky.social preparing bespoke bat tree roosts assessment training 🦇🌳- whilst exploring came across this sleepy resident, nestled behind a callus roll in an oak (photo taken using an endoscope, under licence).
THANK GOODNESS! 😅 House of Lords debated Pt 3 of Planning & Infrastructure Bill today - voted in favour of amendment limiting EDPs to impacts like nutrient neutrality, air pollution etc i.e. NOT for protected species & habitats (which would have been disastrous & massive weakening of protections)… 🙌
Shhhh! 🤫 A little privacy please… Right outside my office door - a common pipistrelle #bat mating roost! A male is holed-up in here (in gap between rafter & cladding) with his little harem of females. They’re quite chatty too! 🦇🦇🦇 @batconservation.bsky.social @norfolknorwichbats.bsky.social
Join us for a festive celebration! Grab a drink & watch live music from the amazing Clark & Zuppardi! We'll have children's activities & crafts set up to keep them entertained whilst you natter with friends & enjoy hot food from a local food van. 🦇 Book now: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Why did the barbastelle cross the road? 🤔 Well, >half of them cross within the vehicle collision zone 🚗☠️, so we may never know... YES barbastelles really are at risk of direct mortality from roads & NO "hop-overs" aren't the answer. Great bit of v useful & timely research @kezomalley.bsky.social 👏
Dr Kieran O'Malley@kezomalley.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇 Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk. @vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk #PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The prettiest of nest sites? 🪺 Guess who’s raising their chicks in here… 🐣 @norfolknats.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
