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Emma Lusby

@emlusby.bsky.social
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Easily distracted by winged things, food, nature nut, northern. Head of comms for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust www.ywt.org.uk bsky.app/profile/yorkswildlife.bsky… My own views and comment.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Birdwatching is the perfect way to decompress away from screens, take a mindful moment or hour, and visit somewhere new. Avoid the doomscroll and join the ultimate treasure hunt.🐦 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/birdwatching-go #30DaysWild
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Poorly thought through" putting wildlife & homes at risk. We’ve objected in principle to the Calderdale Energy Park's proposal for Walshaw Moor. Read more & join our advocacy mailing list: www.ywt.org.uk/news/yorkshire-wildlife-trust-calls-calderdale-energy-park-proposals-poorly-thought-through-it
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust calls the Calderdale Energy Park proposals “poorly thought through” as it objects in principle to the development | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust supports the government’s target to reach net zero; however, it has significant concerns about the proposed wind farm on Walshaw Moor and the precedent it sets.
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The Northern Eco @thenortherneco.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
News just in from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social which will be keenly observed by those objecting to other windfarms in the county #yorkshire #calderdale #wind #energy thenortherneco.substack.com/p/wildlife-t...
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Wildlife Trust objects to wind farm plan
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust calls the Calderdale Energy Park proposals “poorly thought through” as it objects in principle to the development
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Grey Matters More Podcast. @greymattersmore.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Here’s a quote from a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust volunteer “Purpose isn’t a paycheck. It’s a path you walk with others. Dive into the many ways to volunteer with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, from surveys to schools to lighthouses. Which skill would you bring to the wild?”
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2562351/episodes/18635510

https://greymattersmore.buzzsprout.com

https://www.ywt.org.uk/get-involved

https://www.ywt.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer
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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Well-camouflaged male bittern at North Cave Wetlands. Here's my blog for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust about trying to spot these elusive herons: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon... #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
A bittern stands with its neck stretched out and its head raised, blending into the surrounding reeds.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Ever wondered what epic wildlife drama unfolds in muddy winter fields? 🦆 Get stuck into volunteer @rodshelf.bsky.social's latest blog to find out! www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jones/glorious-mud-and-winter-waders
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Glorious mud and winter waders | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Our blogger spends a day at Paull Holme Strays Nature Reserve...
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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🚨 CODE RED FOR NATURE 🚨 We are worried that Gov will weaken Biodiversity Net Gain — or remove small sites entirely! Gutting BNG would: ❌ collapse investment ❌ stall nature recovery ❌ send a catastrophic signal to markets This cannot happen.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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 👇
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Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 02/11/2025
Gardens make up 4.6% of UK land area according to the RHS, let’s make the most of them to save wildlife. Here’s how - please share and spread the word. www.wildway.info/p/21-ideas-s...
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21 projects for starting a wildlife garden
How to make a wildlife garden to help nature
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Many of Yorkshire's most loved, visited and famous landscapes and places, including our reserves, are in National Parks. We recently signed a letter alongside 170 other organsiations asking the Prime Minister not to weaken their protection.
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 02/10/2025
If you're still using peat based compost, it really is time to stop. It's dug straight out of precious natural habitat and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere (literally) in the process. Here's a guide, there are loads of good brands out there www.jackwallington.com/how-to-figur...
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How to figure out if a compost brand is good or not and the brands of peat free compost I use | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
Around the world the vast majority of plants on earth grow in a mix of mineral soil and composted organic matter - only those in peatland grow in peat. Over the last ten years I have grown almost ever...
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David Craven @davidjcraven.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Excellent opportunity with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Director of Fundraising and Engagement. Come work with passionate people in the best part of the UK, on the most worthy of causes. careers.ywt.org.uk/job/f36346bb...
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Director of Fundraising & Engagement - Job page - Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Careers
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 01/10/2025
We will regret not acting faster on climate change.
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Well it is autumn, and it’s been chucking it down all day. First fire in the house we moved into in May 🔥 🍂
A log fire blazes merrily in a grate, traditional black fire surround featuring pretty tiles with white flowers and leaf pattern and a black tiled hearth.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ingleborough just levelled up! 💚 More wild land, more rare species, more reasons to grab your boots and explore. Nature’s winning big in Yorkshire—come see why! 👇 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/wild-ingleborough/wild-ingleborough-reaching-new-heights-wildlife #WildIngleborough #KingsNNR #NatureRecovery
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Wild Ingleborough – Reaching new heights for wildlife | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Tim Thom, Wild Ingleborough programme manager, celebrates the impact your support and donations have made on the Wild Ingleborough programme over the last two years.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ingleborough just got wilder! 🌿 Now the size of 2.2 billion Yorkshire Tea bags—brewing a brighter future for nature! www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands #WildIngleborough #NNR
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Red admiral, peacock, tortoiseshell, comma, holly blue and white butterflies in garden today. All going in the #BigButterflyCount 💚@savebutterflies.bsky.social
Red admiral butterfly showing its open red and black wings, white dots on the tips. On a sunny buddleia (sp?) leaf.
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We've been granted a permissions hearing at the High Court for our legal challenge against Angela Raynor's assertion that the Planning & Infrastructure Bill 'will not reduce environmental protections', which we say was both untrue & unlawful. Press release 🔽 wildjustice.org.uk/general/cour...
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Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice
Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill Arguments for a legal challenge against the government […]
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 04/08/2025
Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery - set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape 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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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Exciting news from @northcavewet.bsky.social: bitterns have bred here for the first time on record – a major milestone for this rare and elusive species. A fantastic sign that wetland restoration is working. 🎉 Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/first-e...
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First-ever breeding bitterns at North Cave Wetlands nature reserve | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are absolutely delighted to announce their first-ever bittern breeding success at North Cave Wetlands nature reserve near Hull, where a juvenile bittern was spotted earlier th...
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So many butterflies in garden today, 7 different species including a small copper! They seem to be having a good year, need to find out how best to support populations into next year 🦋🐛🌿🪴🌸
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Our south regional reserves assistant, Katie Baker, explains just how much work goes into keeping our grazers amazing! 🐂🐏🐴 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/caring-for-our-livestock #conservationgrazing
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Caring for livestock – how we look after our conservation grazers | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Katie Baker, South regional reserves assistant, explains just how much work goes into keeping our grazers amazing!
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Yorkshire’s second hosepipe ban in three years starts tomorrow, following the hottest June and the driest spring in 130 years. 💧 Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/our-comment-yorkshire-hosepipe-ban
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Our comment on the Yorkshire hosepipe ban | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust comments on the hosepipe ban now in place, after the driest spring and warmest June in 130 years.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Revolutionising the Humberhead Levels! Can we balance peatland restoration & agriculture? We're on a mission to find out! 🚜🌱 🔍 Curious about the future of sustainable farming? Discover the breakthroughs: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/humberhead-levels-restoration-agriculture
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Can we manage both lowland peatland restoration and agriculture on the Humberhead Levels? | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Mike Jones, South region projects manager, describes how managing water levels on agricultural land in the Humberhead Levels could have significant benefits to biodiversity and climate change.
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Yorkshire Peat Partnership @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Really lovely post from Jack about our trip out to Fleet Moss. In the wider world, #Peatlands don't always get the love they deserve, so it really makes us happy when someone just *gets* it...
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James Robinson @jamesthetyke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing according to a new report from the RSPB. We are calling on the UK Government to introduce licensing of grouse shooting in England as a meaningful deterrent to wildlife crime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Record number of hen harriers killed or missing in northern England
The RSPB says calls for regulation of the grouse-shooting industry in northern after the findings.
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋 The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
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Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My happy place on a Friday evening, summer by the Wharfe. Pair of redstart, several spotted flycatcher feeding young, blackcap and butterflies
River Wharfe flowing gently into the distance under a canopy of large trees reflected in the water alongside meadows. Blue skies. Very warm.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Lots you can do in your garden to save water as well as help wildlife, more on our website 💚 #WildlifeGardening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yorkshire residents urged to save water to help wildlife during dry weather
People are asked to collect water from their showers and not to cut their grass as regularly.
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Who’d have thought national park rangers would be frontline, leading a peaceful resistance, trying to shore up democracy and hold power to account #Follow
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Discover Park Gill, a breathtaking new reserve in the heart of the Dales.🌳This magical spot is set to revive Yorkshire's rare #temperaterainforests, creating a haven for wildlife & a dream destination for nature enthusiasts.💚 ywt.org.uk/news/new-reserve-heart-dales-will-return-rainforests-yorkshire
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New reserve in the heart of the Dales will return rainforests to Yorkshire | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce the opening of a new nature reserve, Park Gill, in the Yorkshire Dales thanks to a long-term partnership with Aviva, the UK’s leading diversified insu...
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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Puffin at Flamborough Cliffs. Here's my blog for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust about these engaging seabirds: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon... #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @emlusby.bsky.social
A puffin stands among green leaves and bright yellow flowers on the edge of a cliff. The bird is black and white with orange feet and a huge, triangular, red, blue and yellow bill.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns & then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture & music” - brutally accurate analogy from @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The secret society bringing an elusive orchid back from extinction in Yorkshire www.channel4.com/news/the-sec...
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The secret society bringing an elusive orchid back from extinction in Yorkshire
It's the flower that frustrated Charles Darwin. He went to his grave unable to work out how to propagate the lady's slipper orchid and it was thought to be extinct from the UK countryside. But for dec...
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Moving house this week. I have a similar number of herbal teas 🫣
Looking into a cardboard box where around 50 herb and spice containers cover the base, with names showing on lids.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The new Planning & Infrastructure Bill threatens vital protections for our natural habitats. Despite promises, the government is pushing legislation that could devastate ecosystems. Read more & take action: www.ywt.org.uk/news/planning-bill-breaks-labours-nature-promises-say-wildlife-trusts-and-rspb
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Planning Bill breaks Labour’s nature promises, say The Wildlife Trusts and RSPB | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
New evidence shows nature does not block growth New poll: Voters say Labour’s failing nature Pull part 3 of the Bill: nature recovery pretence is ‘licence to destroy’
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Looking forward to learning more too, at Leeds Waterstones with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social later today 💙💚
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"It typically takes us a few days to restore 10 metres of dry stone wall - restoring 400m is a real achievement that we & our incredible volunteers are very proud of." www.ywt.org.uk/news/yorkshire-wildlife-trust-reaches-dry-stone-walling-milestone-bid-preserve-local-heritage-and #WildIngleborough
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reaches dry stone walling milestone in bid to preserve local heritage and create more space for wildlife | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are thrilled to have restored 400m of dry stone wall– the same length as the Ribblehead Viaduct.
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Jenny Davies @jennywrendraws.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I keep Bluesky for my bird stuff, but if any of you lovely folk live in E. Yorks or Hull…my illustration work has taken an unexpected turn with this 6ft tall rat sculpture for the Mischief Of Rats trail which launched on Saturday. “Rats Ahoy” Is situated on Nelson street. Check out the website!
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
In the words of the great man, “What happens next is up to us.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more
This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
So proud. At the 50th anniversary of the film, we’re watching Monty Python’s Holy Grail with our 12 year old, who has seen enough Horrible Histories to humour us. Ni!
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
☀ With the warm dry spring we're having, there's lots you can do to help wildlife stay cool. 🧡Provide enough water and top up bird baths & ponds. 🧡Place rocks in water dishes for insects to have a safe drink too. 🧡Let areas grow wild to provide shade. ywt.org.uk/actions/how-provide-water-wildlife
A graphic providing tips for helping wildlife in hot weather. The graphic uses orange and white illustrations and text to convey how to support thirsty and heat-sensitive animals during the summer. The advice includes: providing shallow dishes of water, topping up bird baths with clean water, keeping bird feeders full, giving animals cover from the sun with logs and tall grass, keeping ponds topped-up, and leaving wilder areas in gardens for shelter. A sidebar alerts readers about the danger of raisins to pets.
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
An ‘awe inspiring wonder of nature’, set your alarm and head out for peak dawn chorus time www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon...
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Early birds: dawn chorus at North Cliffe Wood | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
It’s 4.40am on a calm spring morning. I pull into the layby next to North Cliffe Wood and strap on the head torch that’ll help me find my way through the darkness. There’s no traffic at this ridiculou...
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 29/04/2025
Bad news I’m afraid, I keep potting our seedlings into peat free compost, and instead of withering and dying, they keep getting bigger and bigger! 🙄
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just spotted first five SWIFTS here in warm skies above LS29, west Yorks. Welcome back you crazy sky arcs!
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Emma Lusby @emlusby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Annual pilgrimage to Middleton Woods, Ilkley. Priceless perfume, golden tunes, feeling blessed - this is my church
Bluebells carpet a woodland floor Bluebells carpet lush woodland floor
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Its legacy, if this terrible bill is approved, will be a grimmer, greyer, unhappier nation" Hugely important, powerful, clear-sighted assessment of the planning and infrastructure bill by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
For one week only, from 12 noon today, 22nd April, until 12 noon on 29th April, every donation to our woodland appeal will be DOUBLED by the Big Give’s #GreenMatchFund! Leaf a lasting impact and make twice the difference for Yorkshire’s woodlands. 🌳 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
bird singing perched on a tree branch text overlay says our woodland friends need your help.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch reveals declining bird numbers in Yorkshire. 🐦‍⬛ UK birds in crisis RSPB warns – starling numbers hit record lows as cherished garden species vanish from our skies.
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RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch reveals declining bird numbers in Yorkshire
UK birds in crisis RSPB warns – starling numbers hit record lows as cherished garden species vanish from our skies
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