L Bimo 💚🌱🐦‍⬛🐝

Nature lover, volunteer Pickerings Pasture LNR & Bright Park. All views my own. Love open spaces, our parks, birds & wildlife. Home gardener😉

[Paper Parrot @paperparrot_]

A squirrel in Stirling found a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer on the wet pavement and sat down to eat it like it was his.

He looks like he'll survive the winter nicely,
[📸: Jared Bowe (via IG)]

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

I find a good bench mark in life is how people treat animals. This is Russell Brand recounting his cruelty to the family dog as a child in his 2009 biography

[MarcoTombesi3 @MTombesi3]

https://t.co/b66zUY3jsn

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

🦅 Stopping the slaughter in Lebanon

CABS & MECSHAP anti-poaching teams uncovered 170+ shot birds of prey along a critical migration flyway.

Working with police, 15 poachers have been caught red-handed & weapons seized.

The fight to protect migratory raptors continues!

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

🚨 VICTORY IN #LEBANON 🦅

165 illegal mist nets torn down north of Tripoli >200+ birds freed! Key landowners identified for legal action.

Big thanks to Lebanese Internal Security Forces @lebisf, CABS & MECHSAP APU for making it happen. 🇱🇧⚖️

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

The Nazi guards never heard the baby crying inside her toolbox. If they had, 2,500 children would have died.

In 1942, a 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked into the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a simple toolbox. She had a permit to check for typhus outbreaks. The guards waved her through. Hidden beneath the wrenches and rags was a six-month-old baby. She walked past armed soldiers and handed the child to a Polish family waiting outside the walls. The next morning she walked back in and did it again.

For three years Irena smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. She hid infants in toolboxes, sedated children and smuggled them in coffins, concealed them in ambulances under stretchers, and used sewer pipes. Every child received a new Polish name. Irena recorded everything—real names, new names, locations—on tissue paper sealed in glass jars and buried in a friend’s garden.

By October 1943 the Gestapo caught her. They tortured her, broke both her legs and both her feet, and beat her unconscious. She gave them nothing. After months they sentenced her to death. The night before her execution, the underground bribed a guard. He led her out and recorded her as “executed.”

She went immediately back to work and continued until the war ended. When the war ended she dug up the jars and spent months trying to reunite children with families. Most parents had died in the camps.

For decades almost no one knew about her. Then in 1999 four teenage girls in Kansas found a brief mention of a woman who had saved 2,500 children. They researched and wrote a play. At age 89 Irena Sendler became famous. She was honored by Pope John Paul II and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in 2008 at age 98.

One estimate suggests those 2,500 rescued children produced approximately 6,000 descendants. She was a social worker with a permit and a toolbox. She walked into hell every day for three years and walked out carrying children. The Nazis broke her legs. They couldn’t break her will.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Good to see well done BBC

Exciting news! Naturewatch launches on Friday, 6 November, and the show will run year-round as a weekly video podcast based near Bristol. The new series will give viewers a continuous, weekly look at British wildlife through every season.

Host Megan McCubbin told the BBC:

“Having a weekly programme dedicated to UK wildlife means a lot, as so much activity happens under our noses that often goes unnoticed... but no longer! Packed with science, stories and wonder, I hope it will inspire viewers to get outside and reconnect with the wildlife around us.”

Naturewatch begins on Friday 6 November. You can view it on BBC iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds from 6am, and then watch it at 7.30pm on BBC Two.

[L Bimo 💚🌱🐦‍⬛🐝 @LBimo1]

https://t.co/V8pR1QNTaR A Race Against Time to Save Fungi
Fungi can’t wait and we’re losing species before we even find them. Will you help save the world we cannot see?

[Tuelhinhos 🐇 @t_tuelhinhos]

Eu simplesmente amo esse vídeo, já devo ter repostado umas 5 vezes, mas dane-se esse video é perfeito

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Nature is wonderful

[Sheila17 @sheila17_xo]

Thank you, Niall, for sharing the story of this adorable Chihuahua. How can someone be so cruel and sleep at night after dumping such a sweet little creature not on the street, but in the jungle? She must have been terrified poor thing! She could have been killed by another animal.

I'm sorry she lost one eye, but I have no doubt that she will be so loved and cared for even without it. I'm so happy you rescued her and that she is now in a safe place. Waiting to see what name you decide to give her. 🙏❤️🐾✨
@NiallHarbison

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Lots more sleep. Meds. Love and her drip.

Maybe, just maybe we can save her life and get her back on her feet.

A big week ahead for this gorgeous little girl 🤞(6/6)

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

🛑 First win of our main autumn campaign in #Brescia

Acting on CABS intel, Italian police caught a licensed hunter red-handed on a remote ridge near Lake Idro.

190 traps seized, 2 robins rescued + 1 illegal poacher stopped.

Years of tracking this suspect finally pay off!

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Culling sharks that live to 400 years old because of fishing competition???
What the hell is WRONG with humans? 😡

[L Bimo 💚🌱🐦‍⬛🐝 @LBimo1]

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[L Bimo 💚🌱🐦‍⬛🐝 @LBimo1]

Tonight, wave your flags #KnottyAsh #proms

[❣️Anne❣️ @USA_Anne711]

⚠️ Cuteness Overload⚠️

Pure innocence meets a golden goddess… and both 💛💛 melt. 🥰

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

I chaired a wildlife crime debate at the Defra Partnership Against Wildlife Conference at Kew Gardens yesterday. Great to see this chap wandering around in the coffee break

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Bollocks to eating nuts, the squirrels in Scotland gorge themselves on Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

This mesmerising image of a diving Gannet won the world's top bird photography prize. It was taken by photographer Henley Spiers off the coast of Shetland in Scotland. THIS is where Gannets belong, not in the body bags of the Guga hunters!