Edward Pollard
@epollard.bsky.social
🌲 Biodiversity conservationist living in Cambridge, UK.
🦋 Cambridgeshire butterfly recorder so this account will mainly about butterflies and other general natural history
🦋 Cambridgeshire butterfly recorder so this account will mainly about butterflies and other general natural history
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Edward Pollard
@epollard.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hello!
Giving this a go too (as well as persisting with Threads) mainly about butterflies and general natural history. For starters my favourite butterfly - which is a little like the Bluesky icon :)
Giving this a go too (as well as persisting with Threads) mainly about butterflies and general natural history. For starters my favourite butterfly - which is a little like the Bluesky icon :)
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Can trees outside woods improve farmland biodiversity? 🌳
This #NationalTreeWeek, Richard Fox, Head of Science, discusses a recent study into the importance of trees outside woods for farmland butterflies 🦋
buff.ly/spvtBMp
This #NationalTreeWeek, Richard Fox, Head of Science, discusses a recent study into the importance of trees outside woods for farmland butterflies 🦋
buff.ly/spvtBMp
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Can trees outside woods improve farmland biodiversity? 🌳
This #NationalTreeWeek, Richard Fox, Head of Science, discusses a recent study into the importance of trees outside woods for farmland butterflies 🦋
buff.ly/spvtBMp
This #NationalTreeWeek, Richard Fox, Head of Science, discusses a recent study into the importance of trees outside woods for farmland butterflies 🦋
buff.ly/spvtBMp
Why is the BBC using such an awful AI generated image to illustrate this important story?
Surely @gettyimages.com didn't make that?
Surely @gettyimages.com didn't make that?
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Why is the BBC using such an awful AI generated image to illustrate this important story?
Surely @gettyimages.com didn't make that?
Surely @gettyimages.com didn't make that?
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WORK PARTY - Sun 23/11, 10am
Devil's Dyke near Newmarket. Please come along and help us with essential conservation work to support the Chalkhill Blue, Adonis Blue, Dingy Skipper, and other grassland species.
butterfly-conservation.org/events/cambs...
Devil's Dyke near Newmarket. Please come along and help us with essential conservation work to support the Chalkhill Blue, Adonis Blue, Dingy Skipper, and other grassland species.
butterfly-conservation.org/events/cambs...
Cambs & Essex work party - Devil's Dyke – Nov 2025
Please come along and join us for essential conservation work supporting the Chalkhill Blue, Adonis Blue and other grassland species. Everyone is welcome, no experience is necessary!Please meet at 10a...
butterfly-conservation.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
WORK PARTY - Sun 23/11, 10am
Devil's Dyke near Newmarket. Please come along and help us with essential conservation work to support the Chalkhill Blue, Adonis Blue, Dingy Skipper, and other grassland species.
butterfly-conservation.org/events/cambs...
Devil's Dyke near Newmarket. Please come along and help us with essential conservation work to support the Chalkhill Blue, Adonis Blue, Dingy Skipper, and other grassland species.
butterfly-conservation.org/events/cambs...
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Black-veined White Butterfly (Aporia crataegi) Van, Catak & Nemrut Crater Lake, Turkey
I always wanted to see this butterfly and I saw it for the first time last year in Greece. However, the trip to Turkey was something else. Seen every day and quite often in large numbers
#Lepidoptera #Butterfly
I always wanted to see this butterfly and I saw it for the first time last year in Greece. However, the trip to Turkey was something else. Seen every day and quite often in large numbers
#Lepidoptera #Butterfly
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Black-veined White Butterfly (Aporia crataegi) Van, Catak & Nemrut Crater Lake, Turkey
I always wanted to see this butterfly and I saw it for the first time last year in Greece. However, the trip to Turkey was something else. Seen every day and quite often in large numbers
#Lepidoptera #Butterfly
I always wanted to see this butterfly and I saw it for the first time last year in Greece. However, the trip to Turkey was something else. Seen every day and quite often in large numbers
#Lepidoptera #Butterfly
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Trying to be more active here again. So starting my comeback with a short story in the form of a news feature from an alternative universe - one where the Pleistocene megafauna of mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, giant wombats and so much more survived to today petemrcooper.substack.com/p/the-last-b...
The Last Behemoths
They have survived humanity against all odds for millenia. But in an age of extinction, is hope now beyond reason for the charismatic megafauna of planet Earth?
petemrcooper.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Trying to be more active here again. So starting my comeback with a short story in the form of a news feature from an alternative universe - one where the Pleistocene megafauna of mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, giant wombats and so much more survived to today petemrcooper.substack.com/p/the-last-b...
Rewilding - Vermont style
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Can mountain lions make a comeback in the US north-east? One group hopes so
Reintroducing the apex predator would control deer populations, maintaining healthy ecosystems and bolstering biodiversity, rewilding group says
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Rewilding - Vermont style
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Late notice, sorry. But I am giving a talk about butterflies at the Fulbourn Gardening Society tonight (Tuesday 18th Nov). Starting 7:30pm
The Swifts, on the west side of Haggis Gap, Fulbourn CB21 5HD.
The Swifts, on the west side of Haggis Gap, Fulbourn CB21 5HD.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Late notice, sorry. But I am giving a talk about butterflies at the Fulbourn Gardening Society tonight (Tuesday 18th Nov). Starting 7:30pm
The Swifts, on the west side of Haggis Gap, Fulbourn CB21 5HD.
The Swifts, on the west side of Haggis Gap, Fulbourn CB21 5HD.
Rewilding - french style
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps share.google/dy49yqClCxwY...
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps share.google/dy49yqClCxwY...
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps
In the foothills of the western Alps in southeastern France, horned alpine ibex roam the limestone cliffs of a smaller mountain range known as the Dauphiné Alps, a region once home to thriving populat...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Rewilding - french style
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps share.google/dy49yqClCxwY...
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps share.google/dy49yqClCxwY...
I missed a record from late September.
Wall Brown at Wicken Fen. First record of the species I've seen from this site in many years.
@ajaytegala.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
Wall Brown at Wicken Fen. First record of the species I've seen from this site in many years.
@ajaytegala.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I missed a record from late September.
Wall Brown at Wicken Fen. First record of the species I've seen from this site in many years.
@ajaytegala.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
Wall Brown at Wicken Fen. First record of the species I've seen from this site in many years.
@ajaytegala.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
Proof that the perfect number of field guides in N+1.
Show my a European naturalist who doesn't want this book!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Show my a European naturalist who doesn't want this book!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Habitats of Europe
The essential field guide to all of Europe’s major habitats—visually stunning, meticulously researched, and packed with invaluable information
press.princeton.edu
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Proof that the perfect number of field guides in N+1.
Show my a European naturalist who doesn't want this book!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Show my a European naturalist who doesn't want this book!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Middlewick extended preview
YouTube video by The Wildlife Channel
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Loving Start the Week today (10 Nov 25). Excellent panel of diverse but convergent views on the biodiversity crisis.
@jonathanslaght.com @adamrutherford.bsky.social @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@jonathanslaght.com @adamrutherford.bsky.social @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Loving Start the Week today (10 Nov 25). Excellent panel of diverse but convergent views on the biodiversity crisis.
@jonathanslaght.com @adamrutherford.bsky.social @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@jonathanslaght.com @adamrutherford.bsky.social @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.
"Let us build a future where nature is valued and where every child inherits a world of prosperity, not peril. Let us rise to this moment with the clarity that history demands of us. Let us be the generation that turned the tide, not for applause, but for the quiet gratitude of those yet to be born"
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"Let us build a future where nature is valued and where every child inherits a world of prosperity, not peril. Let us rise to this moment with the clarity that history demands of us. Let us be the generation that turned the tide, not for applause, but for the quiet gratitude of those yet to be born"
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Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...
www.wfelibdems.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
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** BRANCH AGM TOMORROW **
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
Cambs & Essex: AGM & Members' Day 2025
For the first time since 2019, the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day will be taking place in-person. Please join us at Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm for an aft...
link.butterfly-conservation.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
** BRANCH AGM TOMORROW **
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
Meanwhile Norway has committed $3 billion.
And remember, this is an investment, not a grant. Norway will get a return on this.
UK will get nothing, except shame
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
And remember, this is an investment, not a grant. Norway will get a return on this.
UK will get nothing, except shame
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Meanwhile Norway has committed $3 billion.
And remember, this is an investment, not a grant. Norway will get a return on this.
UK will get nothing, except shame
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
And remember, this is an investment, not a grant. Norway will get a return on this.
UK will get nothing, except shame
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Really ?! Oh come on...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Really ?! Oh come on...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What a remarkable discovery! In SW Turkey a new species of Lycaenid was discovered, Rapala suleymani sp.n., of a genus that was only known from the eastern palearctic & indomalayan realms, it's closest relative flies 7000km away! doi.org/10.31184/M00...
Rapala suleymani sp. n., (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) a new thecline...: Ingenta Connect
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What a remarkable discovery! In SW Turkey a new species of Lycaenid was discovered, Rapala suleymani sp.n., of a genus that was only known from the eastern palearctic & indomalayan realms, it's closest relative flies 7000km away! doi.org/10.31184/M00...
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Missed our recent lecture? The World According to Citrus is now available to watch online. Professor David Mabberley traced the surprising global history of citrus - from ancient hybrid origins to cultural power and the modern fight for survival.
Watch the full talk here: buff.ly/LJ7FEor
Watch the full talk here: buff.ly/LJ7FEor
July 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Missed our recent lecture? The World According to Citrus is now available to watch online. Professor David Mabberley traced the surprising global history of citrus - from ancient hybrid origins to cultural power and the modern fight for survival.
Watch the full talk here: buff.ly/LJ7FEor
Watch the full talk here: buff.ly/LJ7FEor
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The #StateOfNature Metrics pilot programme has recently wrapped up, and we're excited to hear from some of the piloting companies.
📌 Join one of our events during #COP30 to find out more.
See details: www.naturepositive.org/events/unfcc... #NaturePositive
📌 Join one of our events during #COP30 to find out more.
See details: www.naturepositive.org/events/unfcc... #NaturePositive
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The #StateOfNature Metrics pilot programme has recently wrapped up, and we're excited to hear from some of the piloting companies.
📌 Join one of our events during #COP30 to find out more.
See details: www.naturepositive.org/events/unfcc... #NaturePositive
📌 Join one of our events during #COP30 to find out more.
See details: www.naturepositive.org/events/unfcc... #NaturePositive
This should be great. I also see that @jonathanslaght.com will be on R4 Start the Week on the 10th.
Will you be doing any other UK events Jonathan? (Ideally in Cambridge 😂)
Will you be doing any other UK events Jonathan? (Ideally in Cambridge 😂)
11th November - Join us for a special evening with renowned wildlife biologist and author Jonathan C. Slaght @jonathanslaght.com as he introduces his new book, Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction.
Tickets here www.stanfords.co.uk/event-tigers...
Tickets here www.stanfords.co.uk/event-tigers...
November 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This should be great. I also see that @jonathanslaght.com will be on R4 Start the Week on the 10th.
Will you be doing any other UK events Jonathan? (Ideally in Cambridge 😂)
Will you be doing any other UK events Jonathan? (Ideally in Cambridge 😂)
Central Cambridge Otter!
My friend @w-mcewan.bsky.social just saw this Otter near the boathouses! (31 Oct '25)
Incredible!
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social @jonheath.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social
My friend @w-mcewan.bsky.social just saw this Otter near the boathouses! (31 Oct '25)
Incredible!
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social @jonheath.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Central Cambridge Otter!
My friend @w-mcewan.bsky.social just saw this Otter near the boathouses! (31 Oct '25)
Incredible!
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social @jonheath.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social
My friend @w-mcewan.bsky.social just saw this Otter near the boathouses! (31 Oct '25)
Incredible!
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social @jonheath.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social
Magnificent Martha promoting the wonders of meadows
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Martha Kearney: Why I'm concerned about our declining wildflowers
The decline in UK wildflower meadows not only threatens wildlife, say experts, but could drive up certain food prices
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Magnificent Martha promoting the wonders of meadows
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's #FrohawkFriday, the day we celebrate the butterfly studies & artwork of FW Frohawk.
Today features White-letter and Black Hairstreak - the former remains fairly widespread in England & Wales, the latter has declined in the past century and is a significant British rarity.
#butterflies
Today features White-letter and Black Hairstreak - the former remains fairly widespread in England & Wales, the latter has declined in the past century and is a significant British rarity.
#butterflies
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It's #FrohawkFriday, the day we celebrate the butterfly studies & artwork of FW Frohawk.
Today features White-letter and Black Hairstreak - the former remains fairly widespread in England & Wales, the latter has declined in the past century and is a significant British rarity.
#butterflies
Today features White-letter and Black Hairstreak - the former remains fairly widespread in England & Wales, the latter has declined in the past century and is a significant British rarity.
#butterflies