KJ Author

Author of the heroic fantasy novel CHILDREN OF ANSHAR and THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU - AN INTERACTIVE ADVENTURE. Founder of MAGNATAR Magazine. RSPB fundraiser.

[KJ Author @KShadmand]

Issue 4 of Magnatar, the sci-fi and fantasy magazine is now available on all Amazon stores!

#fantasy #scifiart #adventure #shortstories

@welcometoearth

https://t.co/BHmn3BzMaR

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle 'disappeared' on Snilesworth Estate, in the North York Moors National Park.

Link to a feature article in The Guardian & some additional commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/KrdZsKRMCG

[KJ Author @KShadmand]

@DarrenW75370135 @paulpowlesland Heroic work thank you

[Darren Ward @DarrenW75370135]

On the topic of ‘just get on with it’ this is one of our smaller nature reserves. From finding the land for sale, buying it, planting 100,000 trees and digging 6 ponds it took less than 18 months to create a new haven for nature. @paulpowlesland

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Up to 22 Swift nests were destroyed during demolition works carried out by Northeast Demolition UK on behalf of Hill Group and Clarion Housing. Conservationists have described this as a significant wildlife crime. Surrey Police had been warned that Swifts were actively nesting.

[Get Wild 🐦 🦋 🐝 🍃 @mitchellsnik]

The hidden cost of the spring silage cut: 🚜💔 Intensive late-spring cutting destroys thousands of nesting birds like Skylarks.
Instead of turning a blind eye, simple changes like thermal imaging and wildlife-safe cutting patterns can save generations. 🐦

[Tiggywinkles @TiggywinklesUK]

Meet Doug.🦔Found in a trench at a building site, he was caked in mud, exhausted and unable to climb out.
By the time he reached us, he was dehydrated and very hungry. After a gentle check-over and some much-needed fluids, Doug didn’t hesitate when his first meal was offered… 😊

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

There needs to be harsher consequences for this kind of blatant disrespect of protected areas

[Earth @earthcurated]

Scotland became the first nation in the UK to pass a law requiring “swift bricks” in new buildings where reasonably practical and appropriate.

These small built-in nesting spaces provide safe homes for birds such as swifts, sparrows, and starlings, whose populations have declined as older buildings with natural nesting gaps are replaced by sealed modern construction.

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

Spraying pesticides in public spaces has to STOP NOW! Its dangerous for wildlife, people and pets. Many European counties have banned this. Its a war on nature in our public places @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @pesticideaction @Greenpeace @ChesterfieldBC #bees #insects #savethebees

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Put a few rocks in your birdbath. Bees, butterflies, and other small pollinators drown in open water. They land to drink, get caught in the surface tension, and can't get out. A few stones breaking the surface gives them a dry landing pad to drink from.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Release the footage, you evil bastards!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds.

The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic white pigeons bred to be small and pretty, with no survival skills outside a coop.

The cheaper DIY versions (Ringneck Doves, King Pigeons) can't even find their way home. Nearly all of them die within days.

Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons lose birds every time. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. There are lots of ways it can go sideways for them.

Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated they can't stand. One described a release pigeon whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull.

There is no version of this where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing. The reality is a domestic animal traumatized or killed for a 15-second photo.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The fact that the two men who brutalised a police officer at Manchester Airport will NOT face a retrial is a shocking disgrace.

It is a huge miscarriage of justice and they only ever seem to go in one direction.

The British justice system is BROKEN.

Time for changes.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Whilst we're on the subject of entitlement when out in nature.. this kind of thing sickens me, and it's all too common.. 🤬

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

This should be a legal requirement everywhere.

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

llegal persecution remains a major threat to Germany’s birds of prey.

In just 5 months, CABS uncovered 20 confirmed cases of trapping, shooting & poisoning - leaving at least 17 raptors injured or dead.

As a result of our investigations police have identified 3 suspects so far.

[Andrew Waddison BEM @AWPRCO]

Angry doesn’t even begin to cover it..

Today at Snettisham beach protected area for ground nesting birds including Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover…...

Signage EVERYWHERE asking for dogs on leads.

📸 Derek Bromage - Snettisham Village Facebook Page.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

How times have changed 😂

[Mary Colwell @curlewcalls]

When common species start to disappear, we really have to act fast. https://t.co/xfURjMskLn