Reposted by David RenwickYorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain. Sparrows. 111619
Reposted by David RenwickTony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 20/01/2026An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukNature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national securityThis strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity. 217892
Reposted by David RenwickNorth York Moors National Park @northyorkmoors.org.uk · 13/01/2026Our Dark Skies Festival with the @yorkshiredales.org.uk is just one month away and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable celebration of the night sky 🌌 Take a look at the full programme: www.darkskiesnationalparks.org.uk 📸 Chris Whiles #DarkSkiesFestival2026 1288
Reposted by David RenwickGeoscopy — Geology, explained. @geoscopy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵 58216
Reposted by David Renwickwildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting! 07023
Reposted by David RenwickJack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 20/08/2025Read about @yorkswildlife.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social’s exciting Wild Ingleborough! A landscape scale conservation project. I was lucky to visit the nursery where wildflowers are being propagated in their thousands 💞 www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...wildway.infoWild Ingleborough's upland plant nurserySet within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape 12411
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Good evening lovely 😍! #hedgehog #Malton #nature 💚 0122
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0131
Reposted by David RenwickNosterfield Nature Reserve @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry For more information, see the link below: www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20... 01011
Reposted by David RenwickYorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 22/07/2025A public consultation for the draft North Yorkshire & York Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now running until 11 August. And there are a number of events for Dales-based land managers and farmers. Find out more 👇 www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-... #YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery 0284
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1393
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Some butterflies and a moth from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Wharam Quarry in the week. Six spot burnet moth, small heath, roosting common blue and marbled white butterflies. Flowers a bit crispy but a lovely evening stroll. @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 💚 0141
Reposted by David RenwickYorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 11/07/2025The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe. 🔥 No barbecues or campfires 🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home 🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly 📞 If you see a fire, call 999 With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue 03412
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚 010
Reposted by David Renwickwildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 18/06/2025With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱 08626
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social 010
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 1264
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025For #WildflowerHour this week lesser spearwort (and friend 🐁), bladder campion, crosswort & water avens, hoary plantain, salad burnett, yellow rattle, bird's foot trefoil, commons spotted orchid & common milkwort 💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0162
Reposted by David RenwickBotanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire! More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...plantatlas2020.orgPlantAtlas 0415
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Better late than never for #wildflowerhour & not orchids! Wild gladioli, thrift, wild thyme, ivy broomrape, stinking iris, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, woolly thistle & wild carrot all from that there Purbeck down South! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0302
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Great news, hoping for a successful fledging too! 💚 www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comSeaton Carew beach filled with little tern nestsVolunteers are advising bird watchers now is a good time to watch eggs hatching. 010
Reposted by David RenwickRSPB England @rspbengland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted. Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe. 21910
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025#NoMowMay bringing joy & not just for plants, but birds, inverts, herps - all! We're lucky to have a pair of greenfinch & yesterday one feeding in our little patch 💚 Soon it'll be a little crèche for froglets 🐸 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 030
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025We've been doing #NoMowMay for a few years now & as it kicks off this week I'm sharing our little meadow in our back garden. We don't cut the front at all other than a postie path! Yellow rattle now becoming self-sustaining! Brings much joy!! 💚 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 071
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@teamneyedc.bsky.social #Hull #Nature 👏💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHull to hold events for global City Nature Challenge - BBC NewsResidents can log their flora and fauna observations using a mobile app. 041
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Green veined white from the garden today, plus first Holly blue of the year joining brimstone, orange tip and small tortoiseshell from last few weeks #Malton @savebutterflies.bsky.social 020
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2025For #WildflowerHour #Woodlandplants great woodrush, early dog violet, greater stitchworth, wood anemone, dogs mercury and sweet violet @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 1554
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Partial eclipse in refraction #Malton #NorthYorkshire 000
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025At #NaturalEngland we're proud to be one of the 50 organisations that have been involved in #NatureNorth & in developing the Strategic Plan we're launching in Sheffield today! The North has incredible natural assets let's make the most of them & create a nature positive economy! 💚 072
Reposted by David RenwickLouise Sutherland @lsutherland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Please do join #HeritageFund Engagement Team in April to find out more about what a #Natural #Heritage project could look like. Full details below 👇 032
Reposted by David Renwickenvironmentjob @environmentjob.co.uk · 18/02/2025environmentjob.co.ukProgramme DirectorYorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Clapham, North Yorkshire, £50,630 - £56,173 pa 022
Reposted by David RenwickLiam McAleese @redscrees1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This is a great role - please take a look and circulate! 053
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I went a bit early with this in the week! 🙄 Anyway happy ##WorldWetlandsDay 💙💚 020
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Happy #WorldWetlandsDay !! Great to visit @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere today with members of the WWT team, Natural England & Defra Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social & local MP @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social What a site & a perfect e.g. of the immense value wetlands provide us! 💚💙 130
Reposted by David RenwickRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025How many of these are you going to mark off for your #BigGardenBirdwatch? 3035064
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It was great to be at the Northern Place, Nature & Culture Forum yesterday in Leeds hearing from some great speakers & chairing a panel. @naturenorth.bsky.social & Northern Place & Culture Partnership working with others to position nature, culture & heritage as key to the North. More to come! 061
Reposted by David RenwickTony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 08/01/2025England doesn’t have enough houses, but we also don’t have enough Nature. What are we going to do about it? Some thoughts from Natural England, kindly published by Green Alliance. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/08/w...greenallianceblog.org.ukWe can make space for nature and peopleThis post is by Tony Juniper CBE, chair of Natural England Among the pressing challenges facing our country in 2025 will be the connected questions of how we can build enough homes for the growing … 74619
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Happy New Year folks, a great start to 2025! 💜💚 030
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Great to be at the 2024 #GMGreenSummit at The Lowry in Salford today for #NaturalEngland with NE North West colleagues. Good to hear from Andy Burnham commitment to #NetZero & #Environment remains strong. Look forward to speaking later at Greater Manchester #LNRS session #Nature 💚 030
Reposted by David RenwickGood Organisation @goodorgcic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024In 2019, our ‘Postcards From The Edge’ project gave good quality cameras to 10 rough sleepers. The participants captured images of heritage attractions outside the city centre that tourists don’t normally see. Those images were turned into a series of postcards. 1/3 132
Reposted by David RenwickThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024an üpdate 893682756
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 21/11/2024@tonyjuniper.bsky.social our Natural England Chair talking today at the ADEPT conference, nature as an enabler of health, wealth & security. How can we unlock greater investment by blending delivery of outcomes in place? Key tools emerging - time to integrate, blend & escalate. Collaboration key! 051
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I'm at the ADEPT conference, which brings together local authority directors of environment, planning & transport. Local authorities are such crucial partners & leaders in place & Natural England see them as key nature recovery collaborators e.g. LNRS, BNG. Should be a great 2 days 👍 010
David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 20/11/20241st post - great to be here, thanks for all the follows. Here for #nature & #landscape happenings & for all the huge good these do for people & communities. The North has more than its fair share of natural assets let's unleash their power & make sure we protect & restore their value & beauty 💚 060