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Lesley Totten @lesleytotten.bsky.social · 8d

Great trip #LochArkaig -just annouced as a #Nature30 protected area by @naturescot.bsky.social Well done to #ArkaigForest & @WTscotsocial.bsky.social Broad-leaved Willowherb, Primrose (not sure if it’s the last or first though !😱), Bramble, Wild strawberry and Knapweed @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 26d

RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26d

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Sep 22

Illegal hunting for traditional medicine ingredients and rising demand for wild meat are fuelling the illegal wildlife trade, which poses a major threat to the survival of rhinos.
— @‌ipbes.net #SustainableUse Assessment

On #WorldRhinoDay, let's highlight the importance of protecting rhinoceros. 🦏

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · Aug 24

So lovely!

Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Some lovely Autumn Gentians flowering on the verge of the road to Helmsley, but only tiny. #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them

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Ria @rianor.bsky.social · Aug 24

Centaury flowers #GentianFamily #WildflowerHour

A cluster of pink flowers on branching green stems

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Some lovely Autumn Gentians flowering on the verge of the road to Helmsley, but only tiny. #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them

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Eirian @miltonei.bsky.social · Aug 24

Common centaury adding a pop of colour to a car park at Swaddywell Pit nature reserve, near Peterborough this week.
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · Aug 24

Wow!!! What a tonic to see all those beautiful wildflowers & gorgeous gentians!!! Huge thanks to all who shared their lovely pics! I wonder what the next week will bring? Let’s meet again next Sunday to find out. Happy flower hunting!

GrahamGoodfellow @grahamgood.bsky.social · Aug 24

In the week we went to the New Forest to see the beautiful Marsh Gentians the #WildflowerHour challenge is #GentianFamily What a happy coincidence @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Aug 24

Common Calamint, Clinopodium ascendens, at Folkestone Warren for #WildflowerHour.

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Lesley Totten @lesleytotten.bsky.social · Aug 24

A beautiful collection around #BlackfordPond in South Edinburgh, Water mint, Rapeseed, Purple Loostrife, Rosebay willowherb, Michaelmas daisy, Water forget me not and an unusual find for me, Enchanter’s nightshade ! #wildflowerhour #ID ?

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rogerrob473.bsky.social @rogerrob473.bsky.social · Aug 24

Yellow wort and common centaury from walks in W. Berks and S. Oxon respectively this week for the #GentianFamily challenge. #wildflowerhour

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Aug 24

Arran wildflowers, Sea campion, Honeysuckle, Sea rocket, Common knapweed, Sheep’s-bit and Enchanter’s nightshade. #WildflowerHour

Montage showing Sea campion on pebbles on a beach, Honeysuckle, Sea rocket, Common knapweed in a hedgerow, Sheep’s-bit and Enchanter’s nightshade.

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · Aug 24

It was the perfect day to visit Nob End SSSI (it really is called that 😆😂) to see how the Autumn Gentians were getting on. I had such a happy time admiring them, they were looking absolutely stunning in the glorious sunshine!💜
#WildflowerHour #GentianFamily #GentianFriend

The Autumn Gentian, Gentianella amarella is a beautiful member of the Gentian Family. The purple five-petalled flowers are dramatically fringed in the centre with fine white hairs. It favours calcareous pastures and dunes, unusually it grows at this site near Manchester because previous industrial processes (namely the Leblanc process) have created a unique limestone grassland which is now home to many rare plants.

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Aug 22

The very bluest of the blue - a dazzling male Adonis Blue at Folkestone Warren. 💙

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · Jul 29

Help @rspbscience.bsky.social study bird disease (trichomonosis) outbreaks

If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org

@bto-gbw.bsky.social
@zslscience.bsky.social
📷 Ben Andrew

A female Greenfinch is perched on a branch looking unwell. Her feathers are fluffed up, which can be a sign of trichomonosis.

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BSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · Aug 3

Not strictly botanical, but I think these are oak artichoke galls, caused by the little wasp Andricus foecundatrix? on Pedunculate Oak, Quercus robur. I've never seen them before but found them several times here in #CoSligo this summer. #PlantGalls @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social

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Lesley Totten @lesleytotten.bsky.social · Aug 3

Bit late for #WildflowerHour but I know you will love this Haresfoot Clover, Chicory and Agrimony found in the field margins near #GosfordHouse East Lothian @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #EastLothian

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Aug 3

Mexican Fleabane, Erigeron karvinskianus, abundant on the embankments of the River Lee in Cork. #Wildflowerhour
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

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Lesley Totten @lesleytotten.bsky.social · Aug 3

Delighted to find a few Seapinks still holding on - about to be further battered by the winds on the East Lothian coast at Longniddry - Armeria maritima #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Jul 20

A majestic female Marsh Harrier at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen last weekend.

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Jul 20

We went to the Norfolk Broads last weekend for to see the Swallowtail butterflies. But we were also heartened by the apparent abundance of other species, many of whom were particularly enjoying the Hemp Agrimony.
Meadow Brown (on Creeping Thistle)
Comma
Peacock
Red Admiral

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Jul 20

Weld, Reseda luteola, beside the tram tracks in Croydon. Also known as Dyer's Rocket, as it can be used to produce a yellow dye. #WildflowerHour

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · Jul 20

Beautiful scenes of Harebell in acid grassland, Leicestershire. #HarebellChallenge #wildflowerhour

A cluster of Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) in flower amongst grasses, North West Leicestershire.

Close up of a Harebell flower, with raindrops on the petals.

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · Jul 20

Keen to know which other (once common) plants were listed as Near Threatened, like Harebell. on the England Red List?
Here's the List: bsbi.org/England_Red_...

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Lesley Totten @lesleytotten.bsky.social · Jul 20

Ultra-blue-violet #HarebellChallenge in a wildflower tapestry along the banks of the Strontian River, Ariundle NNR for #wildflowerhour @asrainforest.bsky.social @BSBIScotland.bsky.social @PlantlifeScot.bsky.social

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