🔴 Azure Hawker - Endangered in Britain. This striking dragonfly depends on peatlands, bogs and acidic pools, particularly in northern and western Britain. 💚 Help protect its habitat: 👉 buff.ly/n7L29ec 📸 Joanna Hood

🔴 Southern Damselfly - Endangered in Britain. This beautiful damselfly depends on shallow, clear, slow-flowing waters with plenty of vegetation. 💚 Help protect threatened species: 👉 buff.ly/n7L29ec 📸 Dave Smallshire

Please help us to spread the word about this. The first Red List update on dragonflies since 2008. british-dragonflies.org.uk/what-we-do/r...

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Title image: Northern Emerald by Iain Leach

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Common Darter and Willow Emerald Damselfly from today at Nethergong, Kent. NEW photos @ marcheath.blogspot.com. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #KentDragonflies

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🚨 The new Red List for Britain’s dragonflies is here! The 2026 review draws on 1.3 million+ records collected over 20 years. 8 species are now classed as Endangered, twice as many as in 2008. 📖 Read the full review & share: buff.ly/muwGa3Z

🔎🐉 Training gives people the skills to identify, record and monitor dragonflies, helping us understand how populations are changing. 💚 Your donation could help us provide more training across the UK! 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/hel...

🐉 The dragonfly season isn’t over yet! Keep your eyes peeled for species like the Common Darter and keep recording your sightings. 🔎 Your records help us understand how dragonflies are changing across the UK. 💚 Support our work today: www.justgiving.com/campaign/hel... 📸 Dave Smallshire

Small action. Big Impact. 🐉💚 Your donation could make a big difference for dragonflies! We have launched a fundraising campaign to raise £50,000 as dragonflies and wetlands need our help more than ever. 👉 Donate today - www.justgiving.com/campaign/hel...

Businesses can be a force for nature. 🌿 Could your business help protect dragonflies and wetlands? From £375 a year, your support helps us deliver habitat restoration, species monitoring, training, and public engagement across the UK. 👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/membership-s...

📢 Bookings now open for our Annual Meeting 2026! 🐉 Join us on 14 November in Milton Keynes for a day of inspiring talks and the chance to catch up with fellow dragonfly enthusiasts. 🎟️ Free to attend (donations welcome). Book your place: british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/bds-an...

🐉 We visited our newest Dragonfly Hotspot, Muir of Dinnet, to deliver a dragonfly ID and recording workshop for @NatureScot staff and volunteers. We can't wait to see the new records submitted by attendees, every record helps dragonfly conservation!

🌿 If you build it, they will come! A new pond created at Castle Fraser @nationaltrust.org.uk is already home to five breeding species of dragonflies 🐉 The pond was created to help safeguard the endangered Northern Damselfly—and we're hopeful it will be next to arrive. 🔗 buff.ly/26VuHH1

💚 Your membership inspires future dragonfly champions! For just £2.50 a month, you'll help fund pond dipping, guided walks, Youth Panel training and community events, connecting more people with dragonflies and wetlands. 🐉 Join us: buff.ly/q9oxmuJ #BecomeAMember

🌿 New in our Teemill shop! 🌿 Celebrate the plants that make ponds thrive. From water lilies to yellow flag iris and water forget-me-nots, these wetland heroes provide shelter and perching spots for dragonflies Wear your love for wetlands 💚 - british-dragonfly-society.teemill.com

🐉 Off to the @GlobalBirdfair this weekend? 📍 You'll find us in the Nightingale Tent, where our team will be on hand to chat all things dragonflies, share conservation stories, and help you learn more about these remarkable insects. Pop by and say hello—we'd love to see you! #GlobalBirdfair

🐉 Looking for events this #DragonflyWeek? From guided walks to family activities, there's plenty happening across the UK. Find an event near you: 🔗 british-dragonflies.org.uk/news-events/...

Don't forget to vote EMPEROR DRAGONFLY at www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he... Thank you! @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Consultation paper: Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife

We are designing the next series of banknotes, which will include updated security features to ensure the public can continue to use cash with confidence – and we’d like your help.

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🔍 Species Spotlight: Emperor Dragonfly Look for its apple-green thorax, sky-blue abdomen (males) and powerful flight around ponds and lakes. Spot one this #PondWatch weekend? Record it on iRecord! And don't forget, the Emperor Dragonfly is shortlisted for the new UK banknotes. 💷✨

The latest edition of the Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Brooks and Cham is available on the BDS shop. Featuring 300 exquisite illustrations by the renowned artist Richard Lewington - order yours today! bit.ly/49pT9cK

🪴 #PondWatch: A Young Gardener's Pond for Nature 🐸 Just two months after creating a wildlife pond, Flint's garden is already teeming with life. Read how this young gardener is making space for nature and inspiring others to do the same. 🔗 buff.ly/JL0BdrF

Move over kings, queens and politicians... it's time for dragonflies on banknotes! 💷✨ The Emperor Dragonfly has been shortlisted for the new UK banknote designs. Help put dragonflies in everyone's pockets by voting today! 🔗

Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife

Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026

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🌿 Show us your pond 🌿 PondWatch is back! Whether you’ve just created a pond, are building one, or have wildlife sightings from an established pond, we’d love to hear from you. Share your photos & stories with us! british-dragonflies.org.uk/get-involved... #PondWatch #Dragonflies #WildlifeGarden

New wetland habitat at Castle Fraser will help protect rare species including the endangered Northern Damselfly ✨ Birks Pond was created by the National Trust for Scotland with the British Dragonfly Society. Full article: buff.ly/uPLy4Rk #Dragonflies #Scotland

New home for rare ‘flying jewels’ at historic Scottish castle

Work to build a new wetland habitat for rare aquatic insect species has been completed by the National Trust for Scotland at Castle Fraser in…

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New guidance now available! Our Dragonflies on the Bog project has produced practical advice on restoring bog pools — helping protect some of the UK’s most threatened dragonfly species and their peatland habitats. Take a look:

Dragonflies on the Bog Project - British Dragonfly Society

Image credits: Corrour Station bog pools by Scott Shanks; Northern Emerald by Iain Leach; Azure Hawker by Bob Eade.

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The wonderful Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social is running the 2026 London Marathon dressed as a 🦡 in aid of Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s land acquisitions for nature. Please watch his message and consider sponsoring him ☺️

Evidence that toxic pet flea treatment chemicals are widespread in Welsh rivers and harming wildlife, and advice for pet owners. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you see the emerging Emperors on Wild London? Hear from the man who raised them. Join us at our Spring Meeting online on Saturday 21 March and learn about the weird world dragonfly larvae from dragonfly experts Jon Van-Gowler and Mark Webb. bit.ly/4bbXBgn #odonata #wildlife #uknature

Book your free ticket to the online BDS Spring Meeting on Saturday, 21 March 2026. Featuring the 'The National Education Nature Park' - a free, Department for Education–commissioned programme supporting schools, colleges and nurseries across England british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/spring...

Hundreds of Bog Pools Restored for Rare Dragonflies! Since November 2024, the British Dragonfly Society has been working with landowners and contractors to increase the climate change resilience of the breeding habitat of rare peatland dragonflies. Find out more: bit.ly/4aWZ74M

Hundreds of Bog Pools Restored for Rare Dragonflies - British Dragonfly Society

Scotland hosts some of the rarest dragonfly species in Britain and their breeding sites are now under increasing threat from climate change. More extreme weather conditions, especially summer…

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Speak up for our rare and precious chalk streams! Support The Wildlife Trusts' response to the NPPF consultation, calling for robust protection of chalk streams from future developments action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/183198/...