James Graham

[Jane Dalton @JournoJane]

Give the man an honour in the next King's honours.

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

This should be a legal requirement everywhere.

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

UK legislation continues to fail birds of prey as widespread illegal killing continues - new report from RSPB details the patterns of persecution.

https://t.co/PeruByjfI4

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[Mary Colwell @curlewcalls]

Two new blogs from our visit to Germany to see Curlews, one from North Rhine-Westphalia, the other from the vast wetlands around Dümmer Lake. Across Europe and the UK Curlews are disappearing fast, but these visits revealed the extraordinary dedication, skill and passion of the people fighting to save them.
https://t.co/p8Kqfw1K1U
https://t.co/jdCPgMVXMF

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Retweet ❗️

This is a Swift. sometimes they can end up on the ground. This is where they need YOUR help!

Swifts arrive back to the UK from April/May to nest. 🪺 (A THREAD)

[Naomi Daw @Naomi_Daw]

Campaigners are racing to save the mother tree of the Bramley apple – a 220-year-old tree in Nottinghamshire that traces every Bramley apple in the world back to a single pip. Planted in the 19th century, it’s still fruiting today, but now faces an uncertain future as its cottage goes up for sale.

Supporters want to buy the site and turn it into a heritage centre, preserving a living piece of Britain’s culinary history for the nation.

#Apple #Heritage #Trees #Environment #FoodHistory #Conservation

https://t.co/dXjpDed1kR

[James Graham @JamesGraham41]

@llandoveryrfc Llongyfarchiadau!!

[Glevum glass eels @leerust1966]

“Dying in Silence:” The Glass Eel Crisis in the River Severn

A critical wildlife crisis is unfolding along the River Severn, where endangered glass eels are becoming stranded and dying in large numbers—threatening an already vulnerable species.

Human inactivity and lack of intervention are allowing this to continue. Active removal and relocation of stranded eels can help support their recovery.

Like and repost to raise awareness. These creatures don’t have a voice—so we must use ours.

@EnvAgency @DefraGovUK
@NaturalEngland @WildlifeTrusts @RSPBEngland @WWF_UK@Ofwat

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Ok that is bad form… very very bad form @networkrail

[Edward Parnell @edward_parnell]

Just unblock their nest holes, @networkrail. Please share!
https://t.co/kLw3RS4Lyy

[Dereck Joubert @dereckbeverly]

Singapore authorities seize more than 830kg of pangolin scales disguised as dried fish skin, representing the deaths of over 2,200 pangolins. Industrialised wildlife crime. https://t.co/hsUC9UnrrT

[BirdGuides @BirdGuides]

New proposals to restrict the shooting of six British bird species have been unveiled by the UK Government, following growing concern over long-term population declines: https://t.co/CUcgG5vUn9

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Ed Conway’s superb summary of ‘farmageddon’. It’s not just inheritance tax that is putting farmers into financial jeopardy. The UK farming sector is under risk from a multitude of issues including rising food imports (often unregulated in terms of food standards) from abroad, cuts to countryside flood protection, unfair supermarket purchase prices and diminishing government subsidies for actual food production.

[Orangutan Land Trust🦧 (also on Bluesky) @orangulandtrust]

A palm oil firm has cleared more than 7,500 acres of forest inside a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Indonesian Borneo, threatening areas identified as orangutan habitat.

@satyabumi
@HCVNetwork
@StandMighty

https://t.co/xIqX3JyxBn

[Monika @CatLover56577]

Magnificent photo taken on the Ukrainian front. 🇺🇦

This soldier, still very young, appears exhausted. The cat, for its part, seems undoubtedly terrified.

This is probably one of the most striking photos of this year 2025, regardless of how anyone views this war.

And yet, in this embrace, it is difficult to say who is comforting the other.

This image was not generated by artificial intelligence, nor was it a montage.

It simply restores a little faith in humanity. Just a little. And that's already immense…

[Glevum glass eels @leerust1966]

“The European Eel: A Silent Massacre in UK Rivers”

1/8
This looks like a quiet stretch of the River Severn.

But beneath the surface, a massacre is happening.

For a glass eel, every metre upstream is a fight to survive.
Most won’t make it.

#EuropeanEel #RiverSevern #EelCrisis

[James Graham @JamesGraham41]

@YrAlltudion Siom mawr

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

The beauty of this

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Welsh Water set to pay out £44.7m over sewage spills
Ofwat said it found “serious and unacceptable” breaches in Welsh Water’s sewage works systems and operations."

And here's the really scary part in all of this, none of this, none of it would have come to light had it not been for you, the general public, you're the heroes in all of this, the ones that stand in our rivers, that are prepared to be counted, that are prepared to hold authority to account.

My respect. 👏👏👏

https://t.co/tM8MWvWmT1