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Allan Mee

@kerryeaglemee.bsky.social
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Works on birds, reintroduction, eagles, vultures, threatened species, ❤️ all things nature, earth justice, human rights🇵🇸

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John Fody @j-fodi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good news for the Kākāpō in Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand). 🌍🌰 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
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John Fody @j-fodi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Abolition of the "Roadless Rule" would be detrimental to the preservation of biodiversity. I can say from personal experience that Forest Service lands in timber management, while they may look nice, tend to be composed largely of common, resilient species. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species
Decision to rescind ‘roadless rule’ opens more than 45m acres of national forests to roads, drilling and logging
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As a scientist, you can look at this clinically and understand why. As a human who cares about life on the planet, the scenes punch you in the gut. Gift link.🌊🌏🦑🪸🐟 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/s...
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Inside One of Peru’s Most Vulnerable Penguin Colonies (Gift Article)
Scientists worry about the penguins’ future amid changing temperatures and warming waters this year.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Multi-sensor tracking reveals the extent of nocturnal migration in landbirds: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... 🌎
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Multi-sensor tracking reveals the extent of nocturnal migration in landbirds
Dufour et al. combine multi-sensor geolocator data from 411 individuals across 56 landbird species to quantify nocturnal and diurnal migratory flight. They show that nocturnal migration is the dominan...
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What has the natural world done to deserve us humans? The oldest Orca in the Straits of Gibraltar with multiple holes in her dorsal fin and back indicating she was recently shot at by some criminal/idiot/moron. 🌎
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ring Ouzel is on the verge of extinction as a breeding species in Ireland, according to a recently published paper:
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Ring Ouzel on the verge of extinction in Ireland
A dedicated survey in 2021 produced only a handful of confirmed breeding records of Ring Ouzel in Ireland, leaving the species facing imminent extinction there.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In 2001, scientists released beetles to fight an invasive tree. Years later, an endangered bird had lost 94% of its habitat along one western river 🌎 | World News - The Times of India share.google/kjHlQTSBbnCJ...
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In 2001, scientists released beetles to fight an invasive tree. Years later, an endangered bird had lost 94% of its habitat along one western river
The breeding grounds of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher stretch across thousands of kilometres of rivers and streams in the American Southwest, yet much of its habitat has long been difficult to as...
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Research offers nature-positive path to end and reverse biodiversity loss 🌎 news.mongabay.com/2026/07/rese...
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Research offers nature-positive path to end and reverse biodiversity loss
From its nests high in the canopy of the Amazon, the harpy eagle depends on — and is critical to — the health of the forest around it. The species controls the numbers of animals such as sloths and mo...
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Wind turbine strikes are 2nd biggest mortality factor (21% of 53 birds where cause of death is known) after poisoning for WTEs in Ireland 🌎 On a windswept Norwegian island, one turbine blade was painted black, and the white tailed eagles stopped dying under the rotors share.google/9VX6cyF3z6vy...
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On a windswept Norwegian island, one turbine blade was painted black, and the white tailed eagles stopped dying under the rotors
Dozens of wind turbines stand across its treeless ground, spinning day and night in the salt wind.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This makes for incredibly grim reading..... UK could be set to lose its first bird species due to climate change www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
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UK could be set to lose Dotterel to climate change
We look at the worrying results of the latest national Dotterel survey. Discover how climate change appears to be a cause of decline.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 08/07/2026
Conservationists warn that the yellow-billed kite is facing an emerging threat in West Africa. With vultures heavily hunted, this scavenger is now targeted for belief-based rituals. A survey in Benin estimates over 20,000 kites were poached in two seasons, raising fears of population declines.
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Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger
With West Africa’s vulture populations dwindling, poachers are increasingly turning to yellow-billed kites, a medium-sized, extremely adaptable raptor found in nearly every landscape across much of…
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Norway planted millions of North American Sitka spruce after the 1950s to expand timber production vut scientists now say the trees are invading ancient coastal heathland. Now classed as invasive in Norway, self-seeding Sitka and Lodgepole pine are also invading heath and bogs in Ireland 🌎
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Norway planted millions of North American Sitka spruce after the 1950s to expand timber production along its windswept coast, but scientists now say the trees are invading ancient coastal heathlands, ...
Imagine walking along a rugged coastline where purple heather, moss, and shrubs cover the ground. These open landscapes are more than scenic hiking areas.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And they left off Turtle Dove and Willow Tit probably so as not to depress people too much.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The piping song of the Ring Ouzel used to be part of the aural backdrop of our uplands coums, it would be tragic to lose it Decline to near extinction of a mountain passerine: the status of the Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus in the Republic of Ireland in 2021 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Decline to near extinction of a mountain passerine: the status of the Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus in the Republic of Ireland in 2021
The Ring Ouzel has declined to near extinction on the island of Ireland, with just nine occupied sites recorded during a national survey in 2021, all in County Donegal in north-west Ireland.Little ...
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy Artificial nests differ from natural nests in predation rates and predator identity: important to study natural nests if possible. Are artificial nests suitable to study wader nest predation? A case study on wet grasslands: doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology #waders
A real Lapwing nest. See Figure 2.Lapwing on nest. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breeding_Northern_Lapwing.jpg
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Estonia's nocturnal songbird populations plummet | News | ERR share.google/kTInQQqsqMAj...
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Estonia's nocturnal songbird populations plummet
The Estonian Ornithological Society is once again inviting bird enthusiasts to take part in its nocturnal songbird census, which helps track the fortunes of bird species that sing at night.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Estonia's nocturnal songbird populations plummet 🌎 news.err.ee/1610055658/e...
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Estonia's nocturnal songbird populations plummet
The Estonian Ornithological Society is once again inviting bird enthusiasts to take part in its nocturnal songbird census, which helps track the fortunes of bird species that sing at night.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A Letter To David Attenborough: What the Children Must Also Know 🌎 - The Wire share.google/nUXuf0IByvmI...
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A Letter To David Attenborough: What the Children Must Also Know - The Wire
Childrens education must include the history of colonial destruction of wildlife and the frequently overlooked conservation wisdom of indigenous communities.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Seriously, what a crock of shite the law in Ireland is when it comes to nature protection “Majority of his history as a farmer is unblemished,” admitted the Judge. “He did things which helped and assisted the environment. This whole situation is a mark on him. www.independent.ie/county/cork/...
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Cork farmer avoids conviction after woodland wipeout
A North Cork farmer, who was accused of destroying a large area of natural woodland for the purposes of ‘profiteering’, has avoided a conviction at a District Court, but has been forced to pay a furth...
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct 🌎 Source: Live Science share.google/mUBJQY5qKTIg...
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Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank as researchers work to find ways to reintroduce the species into the wild.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Indonesian parrot, seen once in a century, reappears in mountain forest 🌎 www.reuters.com/science/indo...
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Indonesian parrot, seen once in a century, reappears in mountain forest
For the past century, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was one of Indonesia's most elusive birds, known only from a 2014 photographic record and a handful of ​museum specimens, with a lingering hope that it ...
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Two out of the (only) three White-tailed Eagles fledged in England in 2025 have since 'disappeared in suspicious circumstances', i.e. people killed them within months. Read this, and see how much effort those people go to, to kill them. We all know who & why. Two out of three. Within months.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Good piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social by @whittledaway.bsky.social on lessons to be learnt from coexistance with large predators and rewilding projects in the Apennines, Italy
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining “eternal snow” in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice
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Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Prof Bill Sutherland has a great series of YouTube videos covering various 'Conservation Concepts'. For his latest one he interviewed me about mapping important areas for global biodiversity and the role of Key Biodiversity Areas www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN9N... @billsutherland.bsky.social
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Mapping important areas for global biodiversity
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Britain's protected birds of prey still being shot, trapped and poisoned, says RSPB 🌎 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Britain's protected birds of prey still illegally targeted – RSPB
The charity says more than half of attacks happened on or near land managed for game shooting.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Forget the headline, it's not an argument against all space exploration, but rather a homage to Planet Earth David Attenborough turned 100 last week — and his oldest argument against space exploration is the same conclusion most astronauts come home with share.google/r7IWfaxe7gBj...
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David Attenborough turned 100 last week — and his oldest argument against space exploration is the same conclusion most astronauts come home with
In October 1980, on Ireland’s Late Late Show, Gay Byrne asked David Attenborough what he made of the search for life beyond Earth. Attenborough was 54 then, well into what would become a seven-decade ...
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
UK Great Spotted Woodpeckers & Blue Tits destroy half of all Willow Tit nests, far higher than elsewhere, far higher losses than other tits. UK has among highest GSW & Blue Tit abundance in the World, as we've created a paradise of endless free food, safe nestboxes, and few nest predators (martens).
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can't sing at their natural pitch phys.org/news/2026-04...
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Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can't sing at their natural pitch
When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic "Silent Spring" in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might create a silent future.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A stunning 1.9-million-acre wild landscape, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument protects awe-inspiring geological formations, rare dinosaur fossils, revered cultural sites, and diverse wildlife, including the endangered California Condor. Today the Condor’s habitat is at risk.
Two California Condors in flight in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

(Photo © Jim Shane. Image courtesy of the National Wildlife Federation.)
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is beyond tragic as well as illegal criminality #poisoning #Italy 🌎 Eighteen wolves found dead in Italian national park in suspected poisoning | Italy | The Guardian share.google/BdZzg5zuWe12...
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Eighteen wolves found dead in Italian national park in suspected poisoning
Criminal investigation under way after carcasses found across Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise national park within a week
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? | Race | The Guardian share.google/6deEqygeQanh...
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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Breeding Bird Survey 2025: record coverage but alarming declines #UKBirding www.birdguides.com/news/breedin...
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Breeding Bird Survey 2025: record coverage but alarming declines
The latest Breeding Bird Survey results show mixed fortunes for the UK's birds, with Collared Dove among the most notable losers.
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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In my latest dispatch from Planet Ficus, I wrote about new research that has revealed a previously unknown phenomenon taking place in forest canopies. The findings are striking. planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-... 🧪🌏
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Seventeen Mammals, One Strangler Fig — A Hidden Network Discovered
High in the canopy, in the branches of fig trees, scientists have discovered a previously unknown hub of communication between species.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ecuador study finds tropical rainforest biodiversity rebounds over 90% in 30 years 🌎 phys.org/news/2026-04...
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Ecuador study finds tropical rainforest biodiversity rebounds over 90% in 30 years
Tropical rainforests are home to almost two-thirds of all vertebrate species and three-quarters of all tree species: they are the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. However, over half of these diverse rainforests have already been cleared, and their area continues to decline drastically, primarily for agricultural purposes. Is there a chance of regeneration, and can not only trees but also the unique diversity of thousands of animal species return to cleared areas?
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Shorebird science and conservation collective shows big data can protect birds 🌎 phys.org/news/2026-03...
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Shorebird science and conservation collective shows big data can protect birds
New research from the Shorebird Science and Conservation Collective at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), published in the journal Conservation Biology, provide...
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Ireland's national parks Our Nature Restoration Plan faces a reality check by @whittledaway.bsky.social 🌎 www.thejournal.ie/readme/biodi...
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Ireland's national parks: Our Nature Restoration Plan faces a reality check
Ambitious EU targets are coming — but without stronger laws, staffing and standards, the State risks failing to restore the land it already owns, writes Pádraic Fogarty.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I paused my PhD for 11 years to help save Madagascar’s seas Marine scientist Ando Rabearisoa creates sustainable, community-managed fisheries. 🌎 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I paused my PhD for 11 years to help save Madagascar’s seas
Marine scientist Ando Rabearisoa creates sustainable, community-managed fisheries.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If non-native species affect ecosystems, we need to demonstrate if and how these are negative impacts, rather than simply assuming they are because the species are non-native We made this point over 25 yrs ago, but still it has to be repeated besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The impacts of non‐native species on UK biodiversity and the effectiveness of control
1. The introduction of non-native species continues to cause ecological concern globally, but there have been no published reviews of their effects in the UK. Impacts in the UK are therefore reviewe...
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sweden’s ‘old‑growth’ natural forests store 83% more carbon than managed woodlands – new study 🌎 theconversation.com/swedens-old-...
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Sweden’s ‘old-growth’ natural forests store 83% more carbon than managed woodlands – new study
Old-growth forests store 78-89% more carbon than managed forests do.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics
Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimag...
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is not an accident. This is what happens after decades upon decades of treating our waterways as an open sewage paired with a forever expanding meat and dairy industry. We should all be terrified of this.
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‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake
Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication. Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action - Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied...
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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨 Bulbul project update: we are now measuring specimens in several collections in Asia, Europe and USA. The data will be used in a family-wide analysis of intraspecific variation and are destined for the next global dataset release (AVONET 2.0). If you want to join the project, get in touch. 🪶🌐🌎🧪
Orlando Acevedo-Charry measuring bulbuls in University of Florida collection, 2026
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Two new bird species identified in Amazonia 🌎 www.sci.news/biology/amaz...
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Two New Bird Species Identified in Amazonia | Sci.News
An antbird long thought to be a single widespread species across the Amazon rainforest is, in fact, several different ones. Among them are two newly-described species -- Cercomacra mura and Cercomacra...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway. It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people. And what to do about it.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day - here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them linked below: bsky.app/profile/ciar... Prints are also available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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