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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All 19 species of bird of prey and owl that regularly breed in England have been recorded at Wild Ken Hill so far this year, in a notable landmark for the West Norfolk site:

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Wild Ken Hill records all 19 of England's breeding raptors and owls

The Norfolk rewilding site has achieved an extraordinary 'full house' of England's breeding birds of prey and owls this year.

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Concerned about food security and the ongoing viability of natural systems on which our lives depend? Here's some loose change we found down the back of a Treasury sofa. Don't spend it all at once, you greedy farmers."

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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours

Entire £253m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With great thanks to the hundreds of people who gave me their testimonies. If I hadn't said "stop" after a few hours, it might have been thousands. The sheer scale of this scandal is hard to get your head around. 2/2

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sadly, vast lines of autumn hirundines used to be a common sight on wires away from migration bottlenecks too #WhileFlocksLast #UKBirding

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This animated map shows every river in mainland Spain and Portugal, animated using only its own water flow. The Iberian Peninsula practically breathes: river discharge swings from just 890 m³/s at the summer low to 33,600 m³/s at the February 2026 peak. A 38-fold difference. HT @AaronJBecker

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This poetry film gives a voice to farmers who envision a future where nature is central to food and farming Produced as a collaboration between @iamloudpro.bsky.social, and the JUSTLANZ project, including local partner SAC Consulting Watch here: tinyurl.com/ycyb6t36 lunzhub.com/projects/jus...

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Cattle & Curlews || Poetry Film for the JUSTLANZ Project

"Cattle & Curlews" was created by I Am Loud CIC for the JUSTLANZ project, which aims to develop transformative pathways for a just transition to net zero for the UK food-farming sector, considering…

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 15/09/2026

For decades, mangrove forests were considered one of the fastest-disappearing ecosystems. But a new study offers one of the most encouraging conservation stories yet: global mangrove losses have slowed while gains have increased. Here’s a glimmer of hope: ow.ly/iqo550ZMzmh

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/09/2026

This merlin just flew into my house and landed on my desk while I was taking a zoom call. I now have at least one colleague who thinks I need to come up with better excuses to get out of meetings.

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Have you ever taken part in a national survey, used apps like iNaturalist or similar? Forest Research are conducting a 10-minute survey to understand what encourages people to get involved in nature recording and what challenges they may encounter Find out more below 🧪

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 01/09/2026

I like how the Prime Minister OF NEPAL is talking about the floods in the context of climate change, but the leaders of other countries are all like, oh but no now isnt the time we should be thinking of those affected we can do that later and we definitely will yes 🤡

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The RSPB is encouraging wildlife-lovers to rehang feeders with seed and peanuts this winter to help UK garden birds through the colder weather, following updated advice designed to protect them from the spread of disease:

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RSPB issues green light to winter bird feeding

The RSPB has advised people across the UK that they can feed seeds and nuts to birds between 1 November and 30 April.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/08/2026

One of my favorite bird species in the world. I was so lucky to see a flock of almost 200 flying up the canyons above Santa Fe a couple of years back.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A neon-green solar-powered slug that lives underwater is the winner of @theguardian.com Invertebrate of the Year competition! - "It’s very, very beautiful but also very smart too - it builds its own solar panels” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 29/07/2026

the account activity labeller continues to be such an incredibly good tool - signals like "no break greater than 4 hours yesterday" or "made 50+ replies yesterday" are such good signals that an account is inauthentic

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Garden Birds, 1967)

The birds, facing in different directions, are posed perched on a climbing flowering plant set against brick wall for scale

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

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Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi @jgmussoi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How do birds cope with bright and noisy nights?🐦🌃 In our study, after just one night of experimental light or noise, common mynas slept ~50% less and sang ~20% fewer songs, yet their contact calls remained unchanged. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 🌏🧪 @asab.org @ecostanley.bsky.social @kecain.bsky.social

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Finally saw a cardinal with only his head feathers molted, and I definitely would've thought he was diseased if not for @rosemarymosco.com's Bloödcheëp: 🧪

Grainy photo of a red bird with a bald black head perched in a garden.

Even grainier photo of a red bird with a bald black head perched in a garden.

Comic titled "Know Your Northern Cardinals" by Rosemary Mosco. Three drawings of normal-looking cardinals are labeled "Juvenile," "Adult Male" and "Adult female." A fourth drawing shows a cardinal with a bald black head above a red body, and is labeled "Bloödcheëp, Frightful Molt-Demon of the Cursed Abyss." Credit is birdandmoon.com

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Just two months remaining for the Wildlife Trusts to raise, crumbs, over £12M to purchase the vast Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. They've raised 59% of the purchase price but have scarcely added to the pot in June. Needs one obscenely rich donor to pay off the (extremely rich) seller. 1/2

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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts

Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/2026

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

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Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Over 11 million rare tree seeds collected by hand 🌰🌳 Thanks to the dedication of around 100 incredible volunteers, our Tree Seed Collection Project with @wtscotsocial.bsky.social has collected seeds from remote #woodlands and Scotland's rainforest. Read more 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/volunteers-c...

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Volunteers collect over 11m rare seeds by hand from remote areas to restore Scotland’s native woodlands and rainforest - Trees for Life

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is so good

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 17/06/2026

It’s time to rewild our banknotes — but which species do you think deserves top billing? 💷 As the Bank of England invites us all to vote on which species we’d like to see on our banknotes, we welcome the greater visibility and awareness this could bring to Britain’s stunning wildlife. 1/5

Cut outs of a white-tailed eagle, marsh fritilliary, grey seal, pine marten and a hand holding banknotes overlayed on an aerial image of trees. There is also text on the image which reads: "Time to rewild our banknotes". Image credits: Pine marten - Iain Leach/Wildscreen exchange, Christy White/Wildscreen exchange, grey seal - Alexander Mustard/2020VISION, marsh fritilliary - Chushkin/Getty images signature/Canva, banknotes - moneycortex /pixabay/Canva, background image - Alex Hyde

Photo of a forested landscape with a river. Text overlayed on the image reads: "Who are you voting for? Mammals: Bottlenose dolphin, Brown hare, European hedgehog, Grey seal, Pine marten, Red fox, Birds: Atlantic puffin, Barn owl, Common kingfisher, Eurasian curlew, Great spotted woodpecker, White-tailed eagle, Amphibians, Insects
& Fish: Atlantic salmon, Basking shark, Buff-tailed bumblebee, Common frog, Emperor dragonfly, Marsh fritillary butterfly. Image credit: Alex Hyde

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation.
Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%)
Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data.
Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups).
Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%).
The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation.
Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year.
1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked.
A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Did u know? It's been a great summer for pollinating beetles. Some beetles are carnivorous, like Ground Beetles, but lots are veggie & enjoy getting their protein, pollen-style, like these wonderful Thick-legged Flower Beetles. Leave your lawn to grow & you'll get lots of these beauties too. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nowhere is more deadly for raptors than our so-called National Parks. The grouse estates are criminal enterprises.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/05/2026

Today will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected📈 The current May record is 32.8 °C. Records are usually only broken by tenths of a degree - making this heatwave unprecedented for the time of year 🌡️

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“When twilight turns to darkness, the swifts rise higher and higher into the night air and there they sleep on the wing. In the very early dawn, as light creeps into the sky, they dive down again” Writer: EL Grant Warson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe ‘What to Look for in Spring’ 1961

The same describe takes place around an old church tower viewed through horse Chestnut branches in full bloom

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Like many blue butterflies, the Silver-studded Blue has a fascinating relationship with ants! 🐜 Does it get your vote for #BritainsFavouriteButterfly? britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/si...

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Joanna Redfeather @joannaredfeather.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

Happy UK nature news! 🌍 There’s been a breakthrough in tackling Ash Dieback! Disease resistant trees are now being grown and the hope is that anyone can learn how to do this at home. The video on this page is a fab clip explaining everything, but no captions: www.channel4.com/news/hope-fo...

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Hope for Britain’s Ash trees thanks to scientific ‘eureka’ moment

Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have found a way to speed up the germination of seeds, allowing disease-resistant Ash trees to grow, writes Alex Thomson.

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Action for ME @actionforme.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚨 Sequence ME & Long Covid in The Times We're pleased to see national coverage in The Times covering today's major funding announcement. Read the article here (please note it is paywalled): www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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Action for ME @actionforme.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢 Today is #WorldMEDay ME is a seriously disabling condition impacting at least 67 million people worldwide. Medical education is lacking in most countries and patients are regularly denied the care they deserve.

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Action for ME @actionforme.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚨 Major funding secured for Sequence ME & Long Covid, a DecodeME project. On #WorldMEDay, we’re thrilled to share that the study has received £4.75 million from the UK government, signalling a transformative step towards uncovering the biological roots of ME/CFS and Long Covid.

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Deidre @deeder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I look, watch, and wait for PEM to arrive in my husband. After a walk, after a DR visit, after a long conversation with a friend. It's like a shadow lurking behind him, waiting to pounce when he puts forth even 1 ounce more effort than he should. #mecfsawareness #chronicillness #missingmillions

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Joanna Redfeather @joannaredfeather.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026

In just a few minutes my partner is setting off on a 6-day, non-stop run and raising money for Action for ME (@actionforme.bsky.social) during ME awareness week. Please consider donating if you can. 💚 More info about ME/CFS in quoted post. #pwME #MEcfs #MEAwareness givestar.io/gs/big-chang...

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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We are probably one of few disabled groups unable to organise and attend any form of protest in person. We've similarly disappeared from our friend and family communities and so considered by all to be AWOL, then forgotten. #MillionsMissing

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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I don't know why there isn't public uproar about ME/LC's mishandling. LC is a massively researched disease, but the lived experience is of medical neglect, social & financial ruin. Too many deaths, suicides. It's AIDS all over again. The public unaware of this, I think. Those who are, overwhelmed.

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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Not a single family member, friend, neighbour or ex colleague, customer or work associate has once asked me what they can do to support the ME cause. They must presume government funds this and that there's clinical support, because it's a biological disease, it's 2026 and medical people care.

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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This project was inspired by the incredible art community on Tumblr… and staff just decided to screw over every creator on their site with a new, terrible update. Like always. Please consider boosting the Repository photos & information to help compensate for the loss of visibility there. Aaarghh.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Today's #SpringArrivalSpotlight is on the magnificent Osprey. Once lost as a UK breeding bird, Ospreys made a historic return to RSPB Loch Garten in 1954. Arriving March-April, they can be seen soaring over lakes and rivers before plunging into the water for fish. 🐟

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Ian Parsons @ianparsons.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

For #thicktrunktuesday a 300 yr old Oak weakened by fungi, then shattered by a storm. Many would have cleared it completely, but by leaving it, it lives on. Might still be alive, certainly full of life, not tidying up is the best for #wildlife @thekentacorn.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thought to be 400+ years old & planted by King James VI of Scotland, this historic Perthshire sycamore was sadly severely damaged by Storm Amy in Oct '25. It nevertheless remains standing and alive, a symbol of strength and resilience, proudly surveying the River Tay below. #ThickTrunkTuesday

A large sycamore trunk with only a few remaining branches. Several large limbs have fallen and left large scars on the trunk. Credit WTML.

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Torrey Wenger @ecologyordie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This week I finished listening to Is a River Alive?, written by Robert Macfarlane. He also narrated it, so the parts kayaking thru rapids - That's his actual excitement. (I waited in my car until the end of that bit.) How do you figure out if a river is alive? 💙📚

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Amidst the gloom, a small shaft of light: Large tortoiseshell butterflies confirmed no longer extinct in the UK! Lovely piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK

Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

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