Jeremy Biggs_FHT

CEO of Freshwater Habitats Trust
Co-author: Collins New Naturalist 'Ponds, Pools and Puddles' Professor: Oxford Brookes University

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This week we published, with Wildlife and Countryside Link partners, the Charter for Small Waters: read the blog here: https://t.co/tF1kzTGx4G.

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Published today...

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Why we can't afford to ignore the world's smallest freshwater bodies | New Scientist https://t.co/AmrTo4xo3T

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@JackPerksPhoto @Freshwaterhabs @LincsPondPlants Hi Jack - you’ve got a handful of stonewort there - maybe Chara vulgaris (the commonest one) but you can’t really confidently identify this from a distance. Did it smell rather garlicky?

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@DiseaseMatters @CoralSpawning If you haven't seen it, this might be useful: https://t.co/3MGF7fTdgf
And dare I say it, this too 😊😊: https://t.co/q2w5WaMcil

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@uclponds Priority Pond! 😊😊(unless it's bigger than it looks😂😂).

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Box of books ready for signing for https://t.co/O9K60pAdrZ.

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Sitting right beside one of Britain's hottest of hot spots for freshwater biodiversity (the Thompson and Stow Bedon pingos) this is a great example of how to build out from the best and recover buried treasures hidden below the surface in 'ghost ponds' @carlsayerUCL.

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The resurrection of a #ghostpingo #pond. One of 10 in-filled ancient pingos that we have restored on @NorfolkWT land close to Thompson Common. We have recorded 57 wetland plants over 2 years. That is a gain of 57 plant species!!! Boom. @hburningham @tim_holt_wilson

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Our Q&A with NHBS for the launch of Pond, Pools and Puddles: https://t.co/cxBKI7cuaM

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@PondManUK @bugsymac1 @EssexARG @Riverflies @freshwaterbio @FSCBiodiversity @bugboybaker Very nice Neil!

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@carlsayerUCL You can read the original calculations about pond loss here https://t.co/pTCeW9359P: great that its still getting new PR 20 years on!

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More than half of Britain’s ponds have disappeared: great to see the Economist picking this up from ⁦@carlsayerUCL⁩! https://t.co/viEJw13r8N

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Latest news from our work in the New Forest, one of Britain’s most important landscapes for freshwater wildlife with wonderful ponds: https://t.co/4oKJ2A0tRY

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Often overlooked, flushes are important freshwater habitats.

[palustris @whiterosegreen]

Acidic flushes on the North York Moors are important foraging habitats for birds like Snipe & Red Grouse, and support rich fauna of wetland beetles incl specialities such as Hydroporus longicornis, H. longulus, Laccobius atratus & Plateumaris discolor.

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After a hard morning's raking, it was great to find some clumps of the very scarce tiny Bristle Club-rush Isolepis setacea (back from the disturbed seed bank) on the way out. My archive photo of the flowering heads in August. @BSBIbotany

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Ponds are Ponderful….

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It’s #WorldWetlandsDay

A pondscape is a network of ponds of different sizes and depths spread across the landscape, providing habitats for more species than a single waterbody of the same size and multiple ecosystem services for people.

#PONDERFUL film: https://t.co/GZXiUBkmRp

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One of the many natural pond forming processes still to be seen in the modern landscape.....

[palustris @whiterosegreen]

The Teesmouth dune slacks are wetter than they've been for a few years. Seasonal dune wetlands are rich but fragile habitats; it's estimated that 30-49% of slacks on the Atlantic & Baltic coasts of Europe disappeared during the second half of the 20th century.

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The many different names for ponds...

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You can now watch the #PONDERFUL animation video on the importance of ponds in all languages of the consortium!

Check our videos in Catalan, French, Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and Turkish on our YouTube channel: https://t.co/9LIdjcYftE

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Read more about the use of Marsh Lousewort as an ecosystem engineer.

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We spread the last of our Marsh Lousewort (Pedicularis palustris) seed today in a couple of areas that are sill too dominated by reed and rush. A hemiparasite, within two years the reed should be gone. Read more here: https://t.co/hKj9yldprD
#OxfordshireFens #OX3 #FenRestoration