Enchanter's Nightshade

Emma, Level 35, Sagittarius 🤘 Described as 'edgy and cool' once. Flora, fauna, fungi and orchids. BSBI member. Bun mum to three 🐇 and three GALS 🐌

[colin morgan news & media @dailycolinmorg]

it’s a sad day, rest in peace anthony head. he was the best of the best, a truly kind soul 🤍

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

Anthony Head what a shock. A brilliant Uther.

[sunshine girl aka Eternal Sunshine @LisaNickelson4]

Let her cook 🔥

[Friends of the River Wye @FriendsUpperWye]

The River Wye has become the first river in the UK to claim cross-border rights from source to sea - a landmark declaration that rivers are not drains for pollution, but living ecosystems worthy of protection, respect, and a legal voice.

@SaveTheWye
@RiverActionUK

[Sarah @Larkspurr44]

Wild mountain pansies at Magpie Mine, Derbyshire. They thrive in the lead-contaminated soil.

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

Green winged and southern marsh orchids this week @wildflower_hour #Wildflowerhour

[DUA LIPA @DUALIPA]

Funmaxxing is an internet slang term describing the practice of intentionally maximizing enjoyment

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

The older I get, the more I understand people who move to the countryside, grow their own vegetables, get a dog, and only talk to about three people. That life gets more appealing every year

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1974, the Mauritius kestrel was the rarest bird on Earth.

Only four remained in the wild. One breeding pair and two singles. Extinction seemed certain.

Then a 25-year-old Welsh biologist named Carl Jones showed up in 1979 and refused to accept it.

He pioneered techniques no one had tried on this species: double-clutching (removing the first eggs so the pair would lay again), hand-rearing chicks, “hacking” them back into the wild, installing nest boxes, controlling rats and cats, and supplemental feeding.

The results were remarkable:

- By the mid-1990s: hundreds of birds
- By early 2000s: 500–800 kestrels

Jones basically saved the species, and went on to save several others on Mauritius too.

But here’s the part people don’t talk about: The population has declined again.

The species is back on the Endangered list with roughly 140–400 birds left (estimates vary, but the trend is downward).

Funding dried up once it looked “safe.” Invasive plants changed the habitat. The fight never really ends.

Saving a species from the brink can take decades of intense work. Losing the gains can take far less.

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

Aren't they absolutely lovely 😍

[Bleakholt sanctuary farm and small animals. @BleakholtF]

We've had an unplanned litter of lionheads admitted, 2 girls 3 boys. Their only 7 weeks old but their mother has had another litter so she couldn't cope with these and feed the newborns. They will be needing homes soon in pairs or 3's. #rabbits #bunnies #thursdaythoughts 🐰

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Blu. He is here for booty scratches. Can also easily be over there for booty scratches. Or there. Just say the word. 13/10

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

@alisonblair30 How sad but what a brilliant long life she had full of love ❤️

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

Dallas had a party for his 9th birthday today 🎂

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 4/26 in Sagittarius: Hope is as it was. Not the night. Or hardly the day. Seen as it was.

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

Today has not really gone my way.

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

23 April is #StGeorgesDay, when England honours its dragon-slaying patron saint. It is also National Asparagus Day, marking the traditional opening of the English asparagus season, a brief six-week harvest that runs until Midsummer’s Day on 21 June. Image: Karyn Frances Gray.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A rabbit called Herbie has earned a Guinness World Record for being the oldest living rabbit at over 15 years old

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

Men wouldn't even notice. Wear what you like.

[Enchanter's Nightshade @lionhaven]

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