trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Seen some but not many in North London. I got excited last night because I counted 6 at once 😕 000
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Agree - I think we should spend a lot more time talking about the positive economic & health benefits of the transition & less about the terrifying consequences of not making the change 110
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialWATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021. 211450
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/03/2025beaver's return 242049607
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialDana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Utter utter madness 🤬 1135
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialDave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Go beavers! How exciting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBeaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuriesExclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks 19313
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe WilliamsThe truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams 1209
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialEric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 10/02/2025Shocking. Never thought I'd live to see this. 13420118
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The old Sun Tzu thing. Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across 014710
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 31/01/2025We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production! 20% of our land produces just 3% of our food. Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs... 471597396
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialDr. Suzanne Simard @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests. My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲 2526736
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialmartinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 28/12/2024This is a shocking situation, well done PA Media for exposing. Please @tonyjuniper.bsky.social and Natural England, sort it out. English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comEnglish wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutinyConservationists issue warning as figures show three-quarters of SSSI sites have had no recent assessments 42923
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Trouble is they seem to be semi-tame... I can't see them surviving long, especially given the weather 100
Reposted by @trewisms.bsky.socialPatrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025This is the only story that should be making headlines re: Musk and the UK. The apartheid nepo baby's wealth is based off some of the largest taxpayer subsidies in history. He is playing capitalism with the training wheels on He's not a genius, he's a thief www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comElon Musk’s Tesla has received almost £200m in UK grants since 2016Bulk of funds for electric vehicle firm relate to government’s plug-in car grant, analysis finds 37426
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Thanks for sharing this - I've been reading it with Storm Darragh raging outside 020
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I thought your book was fantastic @florencewilkinson.bsky.social 110
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 06/12/2024There's another class of nature books with this hushed reverence, quasi-mystical othering tone which always puts me off. I'm like, it's a frog 210
trewisms.bsky.social @trewisms.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is a very useful list! I love that you also rate the covers. I know you're not meant to judge books that way, but I definitely do... 030
![Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
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NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
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NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
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[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
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BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
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BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
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BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
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BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
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BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
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BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
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BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
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NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
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BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
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