Hi all, I've decided to share this video. Just b4 Christmas my autistic sister Katie (who doesn't speak and has the mindset of a toddler) went 2 buy a £2 dvd but the till had closed early and started crying in the shop. Police were called& forcibly removed her. #AutismAwareness
Important messages coming out of the #NIEnvironment Conference today. Favourite one of the day "ecological degradation has happened at the hand of economic prosperity".
Happy #StPatricksDay ☘️ from all at JNCC
Our N. Ireland Liaison Officer Amy Arnott comments “It's an exciting time to work in N. Ireland with a new Executive & I enjoy working with colleagues in @daera_ni & NIEA as they progress their environment & biodiversity strategies.”
Happy #StPatricksDay!🍀
On #StPatricksDay2023🍀 find out more about our UK Country Liaison Officers https://t.co/ciB81I35xw including Amy Arnott @Amy_Or_Not, our Northern Ireland Liaison Officer who works closely with the Northern Ireland Environment Agency & @daera_ni
👀Latest paper showing Agri-env scheme upland grasslands were associated with higher multi-taxa invertebrate abundance and richness & swards with lower dominance of perennial ryegrass! 🐞🐝🪳🕷️🌱thanks to @NeilReid81,@MEecoprof,@Gill_Riddell, funded by @daera_ni
#COP15 starts this week, the 30under30 Climate Change Makers & other Youth Voices will be going live on Twitter throughout the conference to discuss updates on COP15 & to explore all things biodiversity. Come join us for our first session tonight.
https://t.co/wA150SmgYP
.@RichardHRBenyon tells the joint #nature agencies #COP15 must be the ‘Paris Moment’ for biodiversity, with binding targets to recover nature backed by transparency, reporting requirements, equitable benefit sharing and finance #naturepositive2030
.@TonyJuniper: 50 years of nature conservation hasn’t worked. Change to integrated approaches is needed: nature recovery must be embedded in agriculture, in development, in climate action, health. @NaturalEngland
.@DrBrianMay asks the CEOs of UK nature agencies whether people should eat less meat to reduce impact of agriculture. Answer: need profitable resilient farming impacting less on nature and climate @NaturalEngland@JNCC_UK
Hilary Kirkpatrick chair of Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside NI calls for courage, imagination and commitment to achieve genuine change for people and nature @JNCC_UK@NaturalEngland
Our film featuring Sir David Attenborough, Iolo Williams, @Bill_Sutherland about the ‘evidence emergency’ and how evidence-based conservation can reverse this. Meet people already using and contributing to @ConservEvidence@ConservEvidJour@Cambridge_Uni https://t.co/GHKtSgLL3v
Kilcummin bog walk tonight. This hill was teaming with wildlife, Skylark, Reed Bunting, Stonechat, Hen Harrier, Hare, Snipe and many more yesterday. Tonight they are being wiped out...