Alistair Whitby
@alistairwhitby.bsky.social
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River & wetland habitat restoration, chalk streams, & community engagement with the Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust. Into regenerative growing, rewilding, good books & generally being outdoors!
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ouseadurrt.bsky.social
That's a wrap!

Fantastic to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks project completed with initial ditch maintenance. 🚜👷💪

Next year's work aims to improve the ecological health & restore wet habitats of the floodplain grazing marsh. 🐦👌🐄

Great partnership with @LewesDistrictCouncil and @SDNP 👏
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ianhall.bsky.social
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues

Data shows more than 1 million hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues
Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants
www.theguardian.com
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rewildscotland.bsky.social
Scotland has so much to be proud of. But there’s something missing – something extraordinary...

More info www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scotland
🎶 by Beluga Lagoon, 🎬 SCOTLAND:The Big Picture
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rewildscotland.bsky.social
Scotland - looking wonderful here. Young trees, mature trees and dead trees. Closed canopy, open areas and moor. This is a landscape where grazing pressure has been matched to the carrying capacity of the land.
alistairwhitby.bsky.social
A scorching but successful week of river remeandering. Four new berms completed 🙌 💦🐟

Huge thanks to our awesome volunteers, who've gone above and beyond the call of duty!💪🔥💪

So gratifying to see Kingfishers visiting the newly enhanced sections every day! 🐦
alistairwhitby.bsky.social
This spring has been a proper wildlife adventure
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ouseadurrt.bsky.social
A fantastic end to #INNSWeek with two days of removing non-native species from one of our precious chalk streams! 🌱💦💪

Two truckloads of Himalayan Balsam, Cotoneaster, Leylandii, Cherry laurel, Crocosmia, Spanish bluebells, & Box-leaved honeysuckle removed from the Lewes Winterbourne!

Top effort 👏
alistairwhitby.bsky.social
Another week of lovely nature and wildlife encounters while out restoring Sussex rivers.

This was the longest slow worm I've ever seen!

#wildlife
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
It looks like there's snow on the rainforest floor in May, but it's actually massed willow seed, drifting on the air.

Every one of these countless magic fairy dust packets of DNA has the potential to be a magnificent old tree, supporting a highly diverse, living ecosystem. 🌏
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andybrown1951.bsky.social
Exactly how does a UK customs officer know whether beef has been reared using excessive amounts of antibiotics in a factory farm where it is rammed up against its neighbours and never sees a blade of grass?
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ouseadurrt.bsky.social
It's #NationalHedgerowWeek! 🌳🌳🌳

Hedgerows play a vital role in enhancing rivers, creating corridors, slowing surface water & filtering pollutants. 🐟💦🌱

We're looking for opportunities to create new hedgerows like these ones we planted in 2020.

Get in touch to find out more: [email protected] 🌳🌳
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Make something good come of the moronic felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, with the culprits now convicted.

The Woodland Trust is calling on Ministers to bring in new legislation so that important trees are listed for protection like historical buildings are:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.
alistairwhitby.bsky.social
It's been a lovely week in the Sussex countryside doing river and wetland work and enjoying the stunning #bluebells!
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jamiedemarco.bsky.social
I think this graph of wind and solar looks narwhal-esk

@leahstokes.bsky.social
jrfhanger.bsky.social
Good morning with good news: Poland's rapid deployment of wind and solar pushes coal down from 77% in March 2022 to 53% in March 2025.

Poland's solar skyrockets ~8X in five years:
March 2025: 12.6%
March 2024: 9.6%
March 2022: 5.4%
March 2020: 1.5%
#energysky credit @janrosenow.bsky.social
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leanahosea.bsky.social
"The Treasury is driving this false wedge between homes + nature...but we have been working with housing developers for years + years in harmony...good companies want nature around the new-builds. It improves...mental health...reduces flooding, provides shade."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
www.theguardian.com
alistairwhitby.bsky.social
Spring is well and truly getting underway at our restored EPIC chalk stream site. Exciting to see Snake's head fritillary and cowslips up.

Our reptile survey setup was rewarded with slow worm sightings. The brook is looking great with ramshorns, starwort, blue water speedwell & newts aplenty!
alistairwhitby.bsky.social
Baffles, berms & backwaters!

Fantastic day spent with @seriverstrust.bsky.social sharing experience on their Chamber Mead wetlands and Hogsmill river projects!💧💪

Some great learning on dead hedges, rock ramp fish passes, and stream restoration 🐟💦👌
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donboesch.bsky.social
BFD! Louisiana jury orders Chevron to pay $747 million for environmental damages, funds sorely needed for coastal wetland restoration. With no irony, Industry leader says this will have a "chilling effect" on economic (i.e., oil and gas) activity. Guest link.
www.nola.com/news/environ...
Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for Louisiana coastal damage in landmark trial
The jury delivered its verdict in the landmark case, which sought to make Chevron pay to restore an area of coastal wetlands near Bayou Gentilly.
www.nola.com