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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile you’re arguing that restoration of an ancient woodland is something to reconsider.

Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

There was nothing indecent in what I said. It is lunacy, and the fact that comments consistently ignore objective reality is testament to a lack of education.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

Hear hear! 👏

Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

And what exactly is ideological here? It sounds to me as though you’re upset over the openness of WT to discuss an inconvenient truth.

Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

It sounds to me as though an education is what’s missing from those who work in forestry on this thread. Perhaps you ought to be speaking to them! 😊🌱

Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic work @wtscotsocial.bsky.social!! 😍🌱👏👏👏

Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 12d

#AncientWoodlandRestoration in action! 🌲

Felling of one hectare of nature depleted conifer has begun at #PloraWood, Innerleithen.

These non-natives are being removed and replanted with mixed native broadleaf species that will support local biodiversity and increase resilience 🐿️ 🍄 🍂

Harvester vehicle on road with conifer plantation in background.

Harvester vehicle on road with field verge on one side and conifer plantation on other.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

The number of species plantations support is dwarved by the number which are supported by semi-natural habitats. To conclude anything less is only evidence of ignorance in the extreme.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

You can disagree all you like. It doesn’t change the fact that afforestation accounts for 9% blanket bog loss, c20% loss of raised bog, 39% of existing ancient woodland loss (PAWS), the list is endless…

These are not only nationally, but frequently globally threatened habitats.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

Translation: please don’t communicate objective facts about non-native conifer plantation in case the public realise the invonvenient truth 👏🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @wtscotsocial.bsky.social for educating!! It’s long overdue folks realise the damage non-native conifers do to ancient woods, alongside many of our other globally important habitats.

Please ignore the lunacy from the uneducated forester brigade 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

You’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

Non-natives objectively support substantially less wildlife (take a gander on the BRC database cor insects and their food plants). Meanwhile, non-native conifers actively chemically modify soils and extirpate species. The world isn’t centred around squirrels.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

Probably because it is an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 2d

Really disappointed to see this sort of deeply ignorant commentary from an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain TBH

Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 6d

Tis indeedy!!!!

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 7d

I believe it does! Not been to see it for a while though

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 9d

Over 400 acorns sown so far, collected from veteran oaks nearby, with lots more to go!

English oak (Quercus robur) supports >2,500 species, making it one of Britain’s most important trees for biodiversity — yet it’s far less common than it should be in Liverpool 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely the moon!

Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut Lancs Wildlife Trust reserve.

Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely the moon!

Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut @Lancswildlife reserve.

Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 15d

A major peat-former on fens and transition mires, bottle sedge (Carex rostrata) was all but extinct in Greater Manchester…

Having been growing an absolute tonne of this beaut all summer, today was the day it was planted out in this recovering @Lancswildlife reserve 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · 23d

Beautiful chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) on a veteran oak by me in Liverpool today 😍

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · Aug 19

First time ever seeing this absolute stunnerrr in Cumbria today - few-flowered sedge (Carex pauciflora)!

A specialist of blanket mires and poor fens, this lil beastie can be found at <15 places in England where it’s red-listed Near-Threatened 🌱❤️

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · Aug 4

Irreplaceable meadows need protecting📢📢

We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows?

Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats.

#IrreplaceableMeadows

Field of yellow wildflowers with green trees in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Field of wildflowers such as orchids, and buttercups prominent in the foreground, set against lush green foliage and an overcast sky.

Close-up of a Butterfly Orchid with multiple blossoms in a grassy field, set against a blurred background of grass and a partly cloudy blue sky.

Close-up of Cowslip with multiple small blossoms in a grassy field, featuring an insect on one blossom and a blurred background of scattered yellow flowers.

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · Aug 1

Has anyone else noticed it?

After years of waiting, it looks like we’re going to have a mast year with our native oaks!!!

I’ll be collecting acorns from veteran and ancient trees around Liverpool later this year for anyone or nurseries who would like some and would like to get in touch 🌱❤️

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · Jul 31

Spotted the striking (and pungent) bog myrtle (Myrica gale) in a Cumbrian upland fen yesterday.

Once common on the Manchester Mosses before industry wiped it out over a century ago, Lancs Wildlife Trust and I have been working to reintroduce it since 2019 😍🌱

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Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks Jon 🌱❤️

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