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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Outstanding photograph of #bats by Sitaram Raul, one of the entries in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 🦇

Saskia W. @saskiaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025: one of the 15 winners.

In total darkness in an abandoned building, Sitaram Raul focused his lens at the distance where he expected the bats to appear, relying on his flash to illuminate the scene. Meanwhile, the bats “defecated randomly on me and the camera."

flying bats illuminated by a flash of light against the darkness

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Jul 16

So good ^

Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Jul 16

Absolutely gripped by the tv series #MixTape

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Jul 12

couldn't agree more.
BBC News - Dads call for ban on smartphones in schools across England - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dads call for ban on smartphones in schools across England

The two fathers say the current guidance on smartphones in schools is unsafe for children.

www.bbc.co.uk

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · Feb 26

Longer term, governments can support alternatives like precision fermentation & cultivated meat which allow the production of meat, palm oil & soya products with a tiny fraction of the environmental footprint of existing agriculture.

Here's @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to explain how it works.
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A better way to feed 10 billion people featuring George Monbiot.

YouTube video by WePlanet

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Apr 30

💚🦔🐾🎉
And a happy birthday to the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/give-hedgeho...

Photo of a small hedgehog advertising Hedgehog Awareness Week, 4th to the 10th May 2025

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Good Food Institute Europe @gfieurope.org · Jan 6

🧀Precision fermentation has been used for decades to produce ingredients like low-cost rennet for cheesemaking, and is now being used to facilitate more stable, sustainable production of common ingredients like milk and egg white proteins, palm oil and coffee. But how does it work?

Process diagram explaining how precision fermentation works: Similar to how traditional fermentation is used to produce alcohol when brewing beer and wine, precision fermentation uses microorganisms like yeast to produce ingredients ranging from palm oil to dairy proteins.

First, microorganisms are given biological instructions that tell them how the target ingredient is made – which, for alternative protein applications, could be a flavour molecule like heme or a protein like whey.

They are then added to a warm fermentor and fed sugars, which the microorganism then converts into the desired ingredients and releases into the fermentor.

The water in the fermentor is then removed and the ingredients are filtered out to be used as part of a plant-based recipe – for example to add a meaty flavour to a burger or stretchiness to plant-based cheese.

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Apr 5

#PrecisionFermentation gotta be the way forward to replace #palmoil 💚🌱

WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · Feb 26

Longer term, governments can support alternatives like precision fermentation & cultivated meat which allow the production of meat, palm oil & soya products with a tiny fraction of the environmental footprint of existing agriculture.

Here's @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to explain how it works.
🧵

A better way to feed 10 billion people featuring George Monbiot.

YouTube video by WePlanet

youtu.be

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Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Littlest Hedgehog wins award! @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social film by Liquona, and narrated by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social has scooped the People's Choice Award at the Smiley Charity Film Awards. hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-very-spe... #hedgehog

A Very Special Littlest Hedgehog...

wins award!!

hughwarwick.substack.com

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Mar 12

It's disgusting. No one has the right to make you feel less important than you are. This so called Labour government is more blue than the last one.
Ps. I have a similar place.

In the foreground an empty bench beneath a tree looks out across the Cotswold hills on a sunny day

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Mar 12

Ditto that. You came over brilliantly.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · Mar 11

"A Labour government is choosing – and it is a choice – to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than tax high earners. You might ask, is that the moral thing to do?”

Spot on, @francesryan.bsky.social

Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan

Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Mar 7

Status:Near Threatened.
To help make your garden accessible, provide clean water and a few cat biscuits (not bread, milk or mealworms) and ask neighbours to create highways (gaps in fence to increase hedgehogs' foraging area). Talk about them when you see them, and learn a bit about them. 🦔💚🐾🌱

Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · Mar 4

Free to read - but if you feel the urge … hughwarwick.substack.com/p/conservati... #hedgehog #conservation #research

Conservation concern for Europe’s hedgehog species

Current statuses, issues and needs

hughwarwick.substack.com

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Mar 6

Love this 🦔💚

Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · Mar 6

First Class #hedgehog!!! How very appropriate ... if you would like to dig a little deeper into these gorgeous animals' lives, pop over to hughwarwick.substack.com

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Jan 26

www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... 🍂🦔💚

Create a leaf-mould cage

Use leaves to make a warm and cosy winter sleepover for hedgehogs and toads. Create a storage cage where you will turn all the raked leaves from your garden into luscious leaf-mould.

www.rspb.org.uk

Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Jan 24

Great news. Finally a government that sees sense.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide

Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU

www.theguardian.com

Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Jan 21

BBC News - Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers. Does it?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers. Does it?

Wild tigers killed nearly 40 people in Nepal between 2019 and 2023. Solutions are hard to come by.

www.bbc.com

Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Dec 30

Great news
BBC News - Deadline to record forgotten footpaths to be scrapped
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped

Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.

www.bbc.com

Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Dec 22

BBC News - Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say

They include a neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire and an Iron Age hill fort on the edge of Dartmoor.

www.bbc.co.uk

Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Dec 21

5 more miles walked today means I'm 44 miles into the #50MilesForGuideDogsUK challenge 😊🐕🧡

Me wearing a Guide Dogs cap, face to face with a labrador retriever. We're looking into each other's eyes. The photo has a golden christmas bell sticker in the top right corner.

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Dec 21

This is a shocking read, although in some respects hardly surprising that these toxic chemicals cause the body such adverse reactions. The sooner they ban these pesticides the better.

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Emma Robertshaw @emma-robertshaw.bsky.social · Dec 21

Labour to ban neonics - great news!

Craig Bennett of The Wildlife Trusts says there is "no place in British agriculture for toxic bee-killing pesticides"… the government's decision "must not be undermined by granting the emergency use of neonicotinoids next year" 🐝

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approval will end, vows Defra

Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Dec 21

Signed and shared

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Poppy @ The Wild Path @awildwanderer.bsky.social · Dec 21

It's great to hear the government is taking serious steps to permanently ban #neonics, but #BritishSugar has still put in a request for use in 2025. I've just signed this #petition to encourage British Sugar to invest in alternatives & back #NatureFriendlyFarming. (1/2)

Back Nature-Friendly Beet Farmers!

I believe #NatureFriendlyFarming is key to a #wilderfuture Sign the petition!

action.wildlifetrusts.org

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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Dec 21

I'll believe it when I see it , but I bloody hope the government mean it this time - and not just capitulate to the NFU / British Sugar (again) 🐝💚
#bees #biodiversity #neonics

Emma Hardy @emmahardymp.bsky.social · Dec 21

You best beelieve it! 🐝

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