Lover of streams, rivers, oceans, and all life in and on.
99% of the biosphere! Keen to highlight its wonders, delights, & vital importance.
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Clams have a lot of lessons for these times. Everything wants to destroy them, and sometimes the clams fight back, but mostly they win by building back harder, working together to engineer the environment they want to live in. They play a long game and they continue to win.
A crucial issue: deregulation by stealth, which could expose us to a greater range of hazardous chemicals than the EU permits, contrary to government promises. We at Fighting Dirty are suing. We need your help. Please see crowdfunder in next post. Thank you 🧵
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Spawning Minnows! Among the great wonders of UK wildlife, unbeknownst to most of us, but to be found in our luckier rivers. My prize upon slipping into our local chalk stream, River Lark, Cavenham Heath, at start of Whitsun, suffering withdrawal from not having been in one since March. #MySwim 1/15
@dantheclamman trees too.
Trees:
- Cannot move to avoid threats.
- Suffer not just from animal predation/parasites but from human logging and clear-cutting.
- Also die in forest fires, storms, and floods.
And yet:
- They outnumber humans by a factor of at least 100:1.
- While human settlements […]
Conservation experts from European BirdLife Partners, on a conference fieldtrip in Albania, were horrified & swung into action...
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/6/11/i-saw-kushners-albania-resort-up-close-it-is-an-environmental
#Kushner #Albania #BirdLife #conservation #wetlands
Sea beasts. bestiary, England ca. 1226-1250. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 106r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
"Brown" Trout seems a misnomer for this exquisite colour-shifting #fish with gold flanks, white rimmed red & black spots, & often white-trimmed fins - no 2 individuals the same. Their colour can darken as they move from light sand to the dark caves they like to rest in below overhanging trees. 4/25
Britain’s River Wye granted legal rights in landmark move. Councils and protected-area bodies across England and Wales have endorsed a charter recognising the River Wye’s entire 209-kilometre catchment as a living ecosystem with rights to flow, regenerate, support biodiversity and be represented […]
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