Gary Grant

Working on the greening of cities

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@lfg_uk bats are protected by law. Good design would involve identifying these issues at an early stage of planning on order to avoid impacts and keep down costs. THere are multiple causes of overspend on this project

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@awkwardgoogle @vandman777 FJord connects directly to the sea

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@LetsAscend_248 Thanks for saving the nest Dave - many don’t bother

[PhytoKeys @PhytoKeys]

🌱 A new plant species, Ophiorrhiza xishuiensis, has been described from the Danxia landform region of southwest China.
🔍 This species has frequently been misidentified as related species in the past, prompting the publication of a new identification key: https://t.co/N8qcumXCBE

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@NewForestNPA Would be better in article if genus capitalised and whole binomial italicised - makes it clearer and conforms with agreed standards

[Mark Robinson @MarkRobinsonNI]

Once upon a time, it was “no mow may” 8 years later, it’s our family pride and joy. Our once a year cut meadow is taking shape again for another year of stunning displays.

Even for some neighbours follow suit 😍

#meadow

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The United States has more than 90,000 dams on its rivers. Many of them no longer generate power, hold back floods, or serve a purpose at all. They just sit there, aging, holding the water back.

Take one out, and the ecological recovery can happen breathtakingly fast.

In 2024, the largest dam removal in American history finished on the Klamath River, where four dams came down along the Oregon-California line. Within days, Chinook salmon were pushing into water they hadn't reached in generations.

By the fall of 2025, they had climbed all the way into the upper basin, spawning in streams that had been sealed off for more than a hundred years.

Damon Goodman, a regional director for California Trout, put it plainly: the rivers "seem to come alive almost instantly after dam removal."

Maine's Penobscot tells the same story. After two dams came down, the river herring went from a few thousand fish a year into the millions, and with them came back the eagles, ospreys, and otters that live off the run.

A dam is one of the few environmental problems you can fix by subtraction. Take the wall away, and the river seems to remember what it was.

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@FT Western car companies should pull their fingers out and start making EVs in earnest

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@ShangguanJiewen It’s still experimental - no significant energy being generated and unlikely to catch on given easier options like PVs

[Amber BC @AmberB_C]

Western Australia, where the soils have so few nutrients our plants went carnivorous....
WA is home to the greatest number of native carnivorous plant species anywhere in the world. Many only found in the Wheatbelt.
📸 me & H. Innes

[IUCN SSC Small Mammal SG @IUCN_SMSG]

Multi-strata “camera columns”: an effective approach to characterize non-volant mammal communities in tropical forests https://t.co/IVojfOJQlk

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Carolina parakeets were the only parrots native to eastern North America. They had a green body, yellow head, orange face, and flew in noisy flocks across the southeastern US.

They ate the fruit in farmers' orchards, and farmers shot them by the thousands. They had a fatal social instinct: when one was shot, the rest of the flock circled back to "mourn" the dead bird, where they could be shot too. Entire flocks could be killed off in single afternoons.

In 1885, the Cincinnati Zoo bought 16 of them for $40, hoping to breed enough to save the species. The captive breeding program didn't work, and by 1917, only two were left: a male called Incas and his mate of 32 years, Lady Jane.

She died in late summer 1917. The zookeepers said Incas became "listless and mournful" and stopped eating.

On February 21, 1918, Incas was found dead in the morning after a cold night.

It really makes you wonder what the woods would sound like if their flocks still flew overhead.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Most days, I listen to @BBCr4today to hear what the "elites" think is news

I have heard NO MENTION today of the extraordinary banning of @cenkuygur and @hasanthehun from coming to UK to argue against Israel's war crimes

The strongest propaganda is often OMISSION

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Heavy attacks on Kyiv throughout the night, which demonstrates a new direction of the war. As I have discussed in many interviews over the past weeks, a decision has been made in Moscow to go up the escalation ladder to restore deterrence. Attacks originating from NATO territory, along with European leaders announcing their intentions to mass produce weapons to strike deep inside Russian territory, have fundamentally changed the nature of the war. NATO territory is also no longer off limits. Make peace now!

[Oxford Union @OxfordUnion]

A statement from the President, Arwa Elrayess:

[John Stanners @JohnStanners]

The fact @LindsayHoyle_MP was emailing Israeli politicians is bad enough but to use the powers of the @CommonsSpeaker to block publication of these communications is an affront to democracy. They need to be published and he needs to be removed from office.

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Giving households access to free electricity during periods of excess wind power would help ease cost of living pressures while making better use of the energy Scotland generates.
“Britain is paying wind farms to switch off while firing up gas elsewhere on the system – and customers are footing the bill. We need to move fast to introduce regional flexibility markets. These will enable storage and smart demand to soak up cheap renewable power where it’s generated and to fill supply gaps in places with low renewable output.”
https://t.co/3gLsz9kMuu

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@bennishkeit @Theuniondivvie @simon_schama I'm generally against the mass killing of civilians. The fact that it's Jews doing the killing doesn't complicate it for me. Put it this way, I have no reason to come up with reasons to justify it, ignore, it, cover it up, or explain it away.

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@davidlois_uned @silap Lawns in particular not grasses in general

[Gary Grant @ecoschemes]

@0776430Clare Too dry in that area