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[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Sound on 🔊
When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system.
If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it. Within hours, the milk changes.
White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.
Miraculous, isn't it?
This is why mother's milk is so critical.
It's not just the bonding, or the colostrum.
Or that it's exceptionally high in immunoglobulins, white blood cells, proteins and essential vitamins, serving as a crucial "natural vaccination" that protects the newborn's immature digestive system and boosts immunity.
It can actually make sick babies well.
We, with all our scientific know-how, can't do this.
So it's critical that babies and mum stay together.

Under the shed is this century's hedgerow.
We've destroyed the hedgehog's natural habitat so these clever, adaptable little animals, these survival specialists, have learnt to use our spaces.
Under a shed the temperature stays more or less constant. It's dry, protected, inaccessible to predators, and completely undisturbed.
The perfect nesting spot.
Right now, these spaces are being used by hibernating hedgehogs.
And from the end of April they will start being used by mums and their newborns.
So if you are planning on removing or replacing an old shed this year PLEASE, I beg you, remember this is a precious space.
Plan your renovations in the small relatively safe windows of the first 3 weeks of April, or the month of September.
This kind consideration on your part will help these gentle, endangered animals to thrive, and produce a strong and healthy new generation.

[Maxine Ross @Fluffy_LeMonde]

Absolutely gutted that the Muirhead Oaks, an avenue of Category A, ecologically and historically important veteran oaks in Chapelhall, Lanarkshire have been felled to build an AI Data Centre

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

This is the face you make when…

🥘 Home cooked meals
🏡 You live in a senior dog retirement village
🏥 You have your own on site vet
🐕 You have 3 girlfriends
🧼 Fresh bedding and cleaning daily
🌴 Sunny tropical living
💰 It’s all rent free

Love you Anthony Hopkins ❤️

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

Brislington meadows is a perfect example of Labour corruption resulting not only in wildlife loss but in real consequences for tenants and their animals. @HomesEngland doesn’t even have full permission yet. What evil people they are https://t.co/f5NnToDi7h

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 255

When male #bumblebees leave home they never look back!
They travel far from the nest - up to six miles - in order to avoid inbreeding when mating.
(A practice some people around these parts should take note of😂).
#bees

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Great Tit amongst the berries. 😍
Taken just before Christmas at RSPB Greylake.... berries make every nature photo better, don't you agree? 😁🐦

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Extinction

It will soon be time to say goodbye.

This is the smallest primate in the world—Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur.

This unique species is on the edge of extinction due to uncontrolled slash & burn of their Madagascan forest.

The IUCN warns they could be gone by 2030.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Ammonia is highly toxic to fish, anywhere between 0.02 to 0.25 ppm can cause gill damage and anything above 2.0 ppm can be fatal.

Paul's just had a reading of 30.9ppm.

[Get Wild 🐦 🦋 🐝 🍃 @mitchellsnik]

Biodiversity and energy features at this French rest stop. Not only is the roof lined with integrated photovoltaic panels to soak up that sunshine, but they’ve also installed House Martin nest cups to give our migratory feathered friends a luxury pit stop of their own.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Cancer services are being told they can’t hire doctors while patients face long waits and doctors are left unemployed.

Doctors who want to diagnose and treat cancer are being stopped at multiple stages from helping patients.

The Government caps how many doctors are allowed to train as specialists like radiologists and oncologists (specialists who read and diagnose from scans and treat cancer). Thousands apply each year, and many are rejected because there simply aren’t enough training jobs.

Last year, 4,011 doctors applied for clinical radiology training. Only 356 were accepted.

For the few who do manage to specialise, it doesn’t get easier.

In 2025, half of the UK’s specialist cancer centres were banned from recruiting oncologists, and over a third of radiology departments were blocked from hiring radiologists due to recruitment freezes, despite rising demand and high waiting lists.

So we now have an under-doctored country where:
- Doctors are turned away from specialist training
- Qualified cancer doctors are prevented from working due to recruitment freezes
- Patients wait longer for diagnosis and treatment

This is not an accident. It’s the result of government caps and cost cutting as well as poor workforce planning.

And the jobs crisis is one of the reasons why resident doctors have recently voted to extend their strike mandate.

This is not a workforce mystery. It is the predictable result of government caps and NHS cost cutting.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

It’s like we’ve got a tardis and have gone back in time to an ancient medieval savagery! Watching these people who are clearly not laying and following a scent trail but instead are actively hunting foxes on a Saturday morning! Help to stop fox hunting: https://t.co/gV6owKxh94

[Charles Cuthbert @CRCuthbert]

Wonderful wild swans wintering on the Scrapes at Minsmere, Suffolk! A group of 4 Bewick's (Tundra) Swans, all the way from the Russian Arctic, and a Whooper Swan (one of 3 now present) from Iceland, each showing their distinctive bill patterns...
(7th February 2026)

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Hi @wesstreeting.

The video below is the Cran Brook, probably the most polluted river in London. It’s a river of raw shit & landfill leachate flowing through *your* constituency. It’s 100% illegal, it goes through a public park and then straight into the River Roding above Ilford town centre.

Labour promised to stop the sewage scandal & yet right now this one outfall in your constituency is pouring nearly a billion litres of sewage a year, illegally, into the river. There has been zero prosecutions for illegal sewage dumps on the Roding this century, and Labour has no plan of when this outfall, and the many others like it, are due to be fixed.

You are now in power and have free rein to solve this scandal by the end of this Parliament. Are you going to take action, or let the sewage keep flowing?

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

Near Glastonbury in a land of religious importance in pre-Christian times, & near an Iron Age hill-fort, lives a 1,700 year old yew

The tree, as a likely site of pagan worship & like many ancient yews, has a 14th century church deliberately built next to it

Hallowed ground

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

A blackbird told me it was February (sound up for some much needed birdsong dopamine-these are my very favourite birdy notes):

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦@markruskell⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!

[James Connor @toJamesConnor]

@David_J_Bier Horrifying. After being shot once, the man isn't moving.

Two seconds pass. At 23 seconds, the ICE agent fires three more shots into an unmoving body.

[Brad @b05crypto]

@David_J_Bier I slowed and highlighted the video. The victim had been disarmed when he was shot and never had his gun in his hand.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Appears to be a video of ICE killing a man on the street.