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55-year-old disabled former journalist and environmental campaigner [insert verb depending on my state of health] among the ancient flora and fauna in the New Forest, U.K.
🌿🐎🐿️🦉🌳
(Banner photo:
https://treesforlife.org.uk "Alder")
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Clean Energy Fights Back!

Dec 4, 08:30 pm London

Political winds are shifting against renewables, pushing advocates to rethink how they defend clean energy.

This webinar will bring together industry leaders to discuss how the clean energy movement is adapting.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Clean Energy Fights Back. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Political winds are shifting against renewables, pushing advocates to rethink how they defend clean energy progress. This webinar will bring together industry leaders to discuss how the clean energy...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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eastangrian.bsky.social
'Let's boost CO2 emissions to see if that will win back a few Reform voters.'
BBC News - North Sea exploration rules to be relaxed in new Labour plan
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why did Milliband bother going to COP in Brasil?
North Sea exploration rules to be relaxed in new Labour plan
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
aninewforest.bsky.social
Clean Energy Fights Back!

Dec 4, 08:30 pm London

Political winds are shifting against renewables, pushing advocates to rethink how they defend clean energy.

This webinar will bring together industry leaders to discuss how the clean energy movement is adapting.

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Clean Energy Fights Back. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Political winds are shifting against renewables, pushing advocates to rethink how they defend clean energy progress. This webinar will bring together industry leaders to discuss how the clean energy...
us06web.zoom.us
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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cumberlandjc.bsky.social
#Morocco 2025
We did a fair bit of herping after dark with the added bonus of coming across other animals like this beautiful little Jeboa who wasn't at all bothered by me 🥰
Canon R5 500mm f13 1/250s flash
#BlueSkyArtShow #Small #mammals #EastCoastKin #travel #nature #wildlife
Photograph of a Jeboa taken in the desert in southern Morocco at night. It is a tiny rodent with sandy coloured back and top of head / middle face with a white belly limbs and round the eyes. Its eyes are huge. Its holding a seed in its front paws which it later took into the little Jeboa size cave behind it under a rock.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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batconservation.bsky.social
🦇 This month we've reached an exciting milestone - 100 life members! Thank you so much for you support and dedication to our work to help bats.

More about life and other memberships here: www.bats.org.uk/membership/s... . If you want to gift a membership for Christmas do join before the 8 Dec.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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rdpphoto.bsky.social
The fallen leaves have revealed this honey bee nest, in the woods at Haughmond Hill. #ukwildlife #photography #Nature #wildlife #insects #shropshire #bees
Honey bee nest, combs hanging down from the underside of an oak tree branch
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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"With orangutan populations dwindling, this study has practical urgency. Orphaned apes, reintroduced without the full breadth of a wild diet, or introduced into different environments, may face starvation or poisoning from unfamiliar plants."
@phys.org.web.brid.gy

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Orangutans can't master their complex diets without cultural knowledge, research reveals
When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to acquire and process them.
phys.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday
a light mist hovers over a body of water between a light blue sky, trees and their reflection an old, fallen tree can be seen in the water near the bank where a shrub with red berries and reed leaves are in the foreground
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
aninewforest.bsky.social
Every time you think the Telegraph can't stoop any lower...
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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coffeespots.ca
They really are just forest puppies
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The @greenparty.org.uk is now the largest in Europe.
Graph showing that the @greenparty.org.uk is now the largest in Europe.
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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trailtotoday.bsky.social
Good morning
These #Small pups are now service dogs in training💕
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin #MobilePhotography
Two puppies sleeping, one has his arm over the other. a puppy being held
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Good morning everyone

Now it's time for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, which is #Mr&Mrs (any male & female of the same kind).
And the Alternative theme is #Pigeons

I've gone with Mr & Mrs Northern Shovelers, Tufted Ducks & Bearded Tits

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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peter-mugridge.bsky.social
A view at #Lymington on 28th October, with Hurst Castle and the Needles.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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libdems.org.uk
The Conservatives have failed to win a single council seat in the South East since May.

Lib Dems, however, are going strong. 💪
A bar chart showing the number of by-election seats won by each party in the South East since May 1st, 2025. The Liberal Democrats are represented by a large orange bar with the number 25. The text next to the chart reads: "Liberal Democrats have won more council by-elections in the South East than all other parties combined." Other bars show 11 (Reform), 4 (Green), 1 (Labour), and 0 (Conservative).
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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maniisnala.bsky.social
Tiny hearts, trembling wings: Inside the brutal world of bird trapping and the heroes who fight it.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/tiny-heart...
Reinstate the 24-Hour Anti-Trapping Unit to Protect Europe’s Songbirds! protectthewild.org.uk/stop-slaught...
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.

Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.

levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
The cover of Taking Flight. Stylised illustrations of a selection of flying things against a pastel background of blues and greens. The cover of Light Rains Sometimes Fall. A pastel collage of seasonal urban nature (cherry tree in blossom, magpie, swifts, autumn leaves, urban fox etc). A cope of Into The Tangled Bank (its cover a collage of nature things (butterfly, flowers, birds, binoculars etc) nestled (yes, NESTLED) in leaves and grass. The cover of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? White background, title etc and various quotes saying how brilliant it is. To the right the rear half of a goldcrest disappearing out of view (the back cover has the other half of the bird).
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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soph0517.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #photography

Kearney

Once essential to the rhythm of daily life
it now stands unloved and forgotten
swallowed by time
An old, weathered red British telephone box stands abandoned in an overgrown rural area. The paint is faded and chipped, and the glass panels are cloudy with grime. Thick green ivy has climbed up the sides and across the roof, almost entirely engulfing the structure. Surrounding it are tall grasses, tangled branches, and bare trees, creating a sense of long neglect. The scene has a muted, slightly desaturated tone, emphasizing the decay and the box’s gradual reclamation by nature.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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cathhodsman.bsky.social
Did u know? For the small souls in your garden, the very cold weather can be as dry as very hot weather,so always provide daily fresh water. To slow freezing rates, put balls, sticks & other objects into your ponds/birdbaths etc. It'll leave tiny areas underneath that are ice-free for longer. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🐦‍⬛🌍
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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cumberlandjc.bsky.social
Seal Island N. Atlantic 2025
My one legged Meadow pipit serenaded me from its lookout post
Canon R5 500mm f/7.1 1/1600s ISO800

#BirdOfTheDay #singing #birds #UKbirding #Scotland #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
Photograph of a meadow pipit with its brown head and beautiful buff chest streaked with dark brown / black feathers. It has one orange leg and was definitely one legged as it flew and landed in several places with only a left leg. In this photo its beak is open as it sings and its tongue can just be seen
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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cumberlandjc.bsky.social
#RSPB Ham Wall 2025 Marsh Harrier
We humans weren't the only ones waiting for the starlings and looking cold 😂😂
Canon R5 500mm F/8 1:160s ISO1600 heavily cropped 🙄
#Birds #Raptor #UKBirding #Raptors #EastCoastKin #UKBirds #Nature
Photograph across the lake at the first large viewpoint at Ham Wall. In the foreground are the reeds bright in the sun and in the background trees the tops of which are still lit by the low rays still with some leaves in gold and bronze autumn colours waiting to fall. Mid photo to the left is a bush which on further inspection contains a Marsh Harrier hunched up against the cold close up of the Marsh Harrier taken as a tight crop from the 1st photo. Its sitting on the top of a bush looking over its left shoulder.
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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libbyfella.bsky.social
The only guarantee of peace in Europe is a Ukrainian victory over russia.
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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nasrene41.bsky.social
#Vanilla was born in a New York University laboratory, where she was subjected to medical studies in isolation.
#BanAnimalTesting
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM