Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Happy to report that I have been accepted to study for an Environmental Sciences degree at UHI Inverness starting in September ! 080
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 27/08/2025A few photos from a recent trip on the Loch Seaforth ferry to Stornoway. In total we saw 330 Common Dolphins, 9 Minke whales and 34 Harbour porpoise 050
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025A nice positive, affirming evening at Scottish Southern Energy HQ in Perth for the Powering Futures award ceremony. This new education initiative recognises attainment as opposed to achievement (passing exams). Very proud to be one of the first recipients of the Ken Muir award. 140
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The sign almost bigger than me when I started climate striking on 14 December 2018 ! 0103
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Climate strike week 337 After 6 and a half years this is my last official Friday #schoolstrike4climate as I have now finished school and will hopefully be going to College to study Environmental Science in September. 160
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Climate strike week 336 #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 020
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Climate strike week 335 #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 000
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025A few pictures from yesterdays Surfers Against Sewage national paddle out campaign in Nairn, highlighting the need for all agencies to get a grip on the sewage pollution routinely being dumped in our waterways & seas, threatening our health and the lives of the marine life we all love. 010
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Climate strike week 334 #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 040
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Climate strike week 333 #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 0173
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Climate strike week 332 #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 030
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Nice to come across this sloooòw worm on this mornings dog walk. #slowworm #leglesslizard 020
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Climate strike week 331 'Another futile warning of a world that is already here' #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 021
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Climate strike week 330 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 141
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A wee video of an interview I did last year with @scotcoastclean.bsky.social for their Shaping Our Shores project whilst helping to clean up beaches around the Wester Ross MPA youtu.be/KsBNCumvWNQ?...youtu.beSOS Extras: Finlay PringleYouTube video by Caledonian Horticulture 021
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Climate strike week 329 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 052
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Took part in the latest @nwhbeachcleans.bsky.social group beach clean of Raffin in Assynt as part of the @keepscotbeautiful.bsky.social #SpringCleanScotland campaign. 30+ volunteers removed 1118kg of rubbish from a 1km stretch of beach over 3 days. The largest single item weighed 106kg ! 061
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Climate strike week 328 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 010
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Climate strike week 327 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 080
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Climate strike week 326 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 051
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025You couldn't make it up and sadly you don't have to, destroying the Amazon rain forest in order to build a road for the next pointless COP climate summit in Belem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say. 297
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Climate strike week 325 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 071
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comSeals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in picturesThe annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life 05413
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Climate strike week 324 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 0144
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Climate strike week 323 Now is not the time for fossil fuel companies to scale back on renewable energy projects. #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 092
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Climate strike week 322 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #peoplenotprofit #climatejusticenow 1235
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Levels of #microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests - Tiny plastic pollution also found in livers and kidneys, but the potentially worrying health impacts remain unknown Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comLevels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggestsResearch looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination 818482
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Climate strike week 321 Positive news in UK as previously approved Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas projects will now also need to take account of CO2 emissions resulting from use of the fossil fuels extracted #PeopleNotProfit #KeepItInTheGround #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #climatejustice 052
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Fingers crossed for a positive outcome for this poor whale www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHumpback whale entangled in rope at Skye fish farmBritish Divers Marine Life Rescue say the humpback is caught up in rope and unable to swim freely. 110
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 26/01/20259 species see today on my @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch here in #Ullapool Starling, Collared Dove, House Sparrow, Rooks, Herring Gull, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Song Thrush and Robin. How's everyone else doing today? 170
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Climate strike week 320 Another extreme storm with 100mph + winds battering Scotland today. Frequency of these big storms will only increase as the planet continues to warm as a result of #ClimateChange #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #PeopleNotProfit #ClimateJusticeNow 051
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorStop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025BREAKING 🚨: Norwegian oil giant Equinor forced to WITHDRAW key carbon capture claim. Data reveals the oil giant was storing a fraction of the advertised amount at an offshore project. Best 'carbon capture' solution: leave it in the ground 192
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Climate strike week 319 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #climatejustice #ClimateJusticeNow #climatecrisis #PeopleNotProfit #ullapool #scotland 085
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere rose more quickly than ever previously recorded in 2024, scientists say, reaching a new high of more than 424ppm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPlanet-warming carbon dioxide levels rose more than ever in 2024The record rise is incompatible with keeping global warming to 1.5C according to the Met Office. 052
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Another great start to the day in Ullapool ......... unless you're doing pre-lims ! 😱🤮😁 291
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A few pictures of Pawesome Steve enjoying the snow in Ullapool, Scotland this week #dogs #dogsofbluesky #spaniel #springerspaniel #Ullapool #Scotland 0100
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorLewis Pugh Foundation @lewispughfdn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025You don't exist as a species for 450 million years without mastering some evolutionary tricks 🦈👇ℹ️ 07517
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Climate strike week 318 Well it's -5C in Ullapool this morning but globally 2024 was officially the hottest year since records began, 1.6C above pre-industrial levels. First year that 1.5C threshold has been broken. Hopefully recent events will make leaders take action to reduce CO2 emissions 1143
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Soon to become an iconic image of the Anthropocene 020
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorLewis Pugh Foundation @lewispughfdn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025What we do on land doesn’t stay on land 🌊👇 0226
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away. 11625562716301
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Antarctica: Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice with 2800 Metre Core “This is the longest continuous record of our past climate from an ice core" mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...mediarelations.unibe.chAntarctica: Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old IceThe fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a historic milestone for climate science. An international team of scientists ... 05515
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Nice wintry views of the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry Loch Seaforth departing #Ullapool this morning for Stornoway 0171
Reposted by Ullapool Shark AmbassadorDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded, writes @ericholthaus.com - the conditions for a January LA firestorm have never existed until now #climatecrisis #LAfires www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comThe Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compoundedConditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist 216073
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025My friend Steve's latest Orca and Humpback whale encounter while guiding in Norway. A real Blue Planet moment ! #MarineLife 🦑 0163
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Nice to see otters in Ullapool this week 020
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Climate strike week 317 Happy New Year everyone ! Here's hoping for some positive action by our world leaders in 2025 to actually start tackling the #ClimateCrisis #fridaysforfuture #climatejustice #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 083
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Climate strike week 316 #fridaysforfuture #climatejustice #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 020
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Another skull found on the beach in Ullapool. Pretty sure this one is from an otter ? Quite small compared to the Common seal skull I found recently 010
Ullapool Shark Ambassador @finlaypringle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024School climate strike week 315 #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ClimateJusticeNow #PeopleNotProfit 072