Bats' insatiable appetite for midges mean they should be seen as a friend to anyone who spends time in the outdoors says Beth Bridge, member of our Scottish Policy Group, who recently spoke to BBC Scotland on her battle to protect Scotland’s bats. 🧪🌍 https://buff.ly/3XW6fcj.
Beth Bridge is working to create the conditions which will let these endangered mammals thrive again.
We are very excited about the new Pielou Review recently published in @MethodsEcolEvol Check out Hanna Kokko’s ‘Who is afraid of modelling time as a continuous variable?’ here 👉 https://buff.ly/3TwlVAD
From cleaner rivers and coasts to uplands and valleys brimming with life, Wales has a unique opportunity to lead the way in safeguarding and boosting its biodiversity for the benefit of all. However, this can only be achieved with a well-resourced Natural Resources Wales.
If Wales is to have a chance of combatting climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse, Natural Resources Wales needs to be well-armed with funding and expertise. This week Christian Dunn, Chair of our Welsh Policy Group, spoke to BBC Wales News 🌍🧪
NRW, Wales' environmental watchdog, is making job cuts to plug a £13m gap in its budget.
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A Hay Meadow in the Swiss Alps by Juliet Turner captures a biodiverse meadow. The image is taken in Switzerland, where this meadow is cut only once a year for hay, giving the plants time to flower and spread their seeds.
Our new Regenerative Agriculture category has two winners: Fruit Trees for Future Forests by Lindsay Banin and A Hay Meadow in the Swiss Alps by Juliet Turner. Fruit Trees for Future Forests shows a village community in Indonesia harvesting rambutan fruits from a social forestry area in Sumatra. 🌳🍇
A Final Survey by Viktor Peinemann shows a researcher surveying a reef flat in the central Red Sea, which faced bleaching due to record temperatures in 2023, leading to the death of the majority of shallow corals. Many central Red Sea reefs today are unrecognizable compared to a year ago.
