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David Renwick

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Chief Executive Northumberland National Park Authority, Board member Nature North & Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. ex Natural England & Heritage Fund North, North York Moors NP. Views mine. 💚

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain. Sparrows.
Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain . Sparrows
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
An 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...
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Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
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North York Moors National Park @northyorkmoors.org.uk · 13/01/2026
Our 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
A vibrant display of the Northern Lights in the night sky, featuring shades of green and red, with silhouettes of trees in the foreground.
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Geoscopy — Geology, explained. @geoscopy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Let'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 🧵
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This kind of day today! 🌧🌤🌈
A particularly bright rainbow 🌈
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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Can 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!
The beautiful fringed flowers of the Autumn Gentian. Can you find a member of the Gentian Family, that’s the challenge this week from WildflowerHour. Don’t forget that Yellow Wort and the Centaury’s are also members of this gorgeous family!
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 20/08/2025
Read 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...
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Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery
Set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Good evening lovely 😍! #hedgehog #Malton #nature 💚
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Nosterfield Nature Reserve @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Fen 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...
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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 22/07/2025
A 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
Rolling hills and patchwork fields divided by traditional dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales under a dramatic, cloudy sky. Sheep graze in the foreground, with sunlight highlighting sections of the green farmland.
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Some 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 💚
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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 11/07/2025
The 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
A red warning sign is attached to a wooden post next to a wire fence in a rural area. The sign reads 'YORKSHIRE DALES NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY WARNING RISK OF FIRE Please do not smoke or light fires.' The background shows an open field with green grass, rocks, and hills under a clear blue sky
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚
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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
With 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 💦🌱
The challenge this week is to find a flowering aquatic wild plant, like this free-floating Frogbit pictured. A fascinating group of plants which have adapted to life in a watery environment 💦 🌱
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
For #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
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
For #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
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Great 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...
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PlantAtlas
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Better 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
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Great news, hoping for a successful fledging too! 💚 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Seaton Carew beach filled with little tern nests
Volunteers are advising bird watchers now is a good time to watch eggs hatching.
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RSPB England @rspbengland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The 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.
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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
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We'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
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@teamneyedc.bsky.social #Hull #Nature 👏💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hull to hold events for global City Nature Challenge - BBC News
Residents can log their flora and fauna observations using a mobile app.
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Green 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
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
For #WildflowerHour #Woodlandplants great woodrush, early dog violet, greater stitchworth, wood anemone, dogs mercury and sweet violet @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Partial eclipse in refraction #Malton #NorthYorkshire
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
At #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! 💚
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Louise Sutherland @lsutherland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Please do join #HeritageFund Engagement Team in April to find out more about what a #Natural #Heritage project could look like. Full details below 👇
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environmentjob @environmentjob.co.uk · 18/02/2025
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Programme Director
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Clapham, North Yorkshire, £50,630 - £56,173 pa
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Liam McAleese @redscrees1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is a great role - please take a look and circulate!
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I went a bit early with this in the week! 🙄 Anyway happy ##WorldWetlandsDay 💙💚
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Happy #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! 💚💙
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
How many of these are you going to mark off for your #BigGardenBirdwatch?
A Big Garden Birdwatch bingo card with the following squares: House
Sparrow
Nice cup
of tea
Any
pigeon
Phone
OFF
Door goes
during your
count
Any
gull
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Goldfinch
Magpie
Starling
Robin
ID
debate
Biscuits
A profound
appreciation
of nature
Coal Tit
Bird
song
Any bird
of prey
A oneness
with birds
Slice of
cake
A sense of
enormous
well-being
Crisps
Wren
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It 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!
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
England 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...
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We can make space for nature and people
This 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 …
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year folks, a great start to 2025! 💜💚
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Great 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 💚
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Good Organisation @goodorgcic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In 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
Postcard Image of Holgate Windmill in York
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
an üpdate
The pig is now even longer. It is astonishing how long this hog is.
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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!
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'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 👍
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David Renwick @daverenwick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
1st 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 💚
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