Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
Patrick Barkham
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This is exactly what we have been warning about. But oh no, anyone who objects to the changes is a selfish, privileged nimby, a zealot, a blocker, an elitist. Let's trash the lives of England's poorest communities, and smear anyone who complains. Thanks Keir. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The gov's absurd rhetoric about nature "blocking" development continues when of course wild species are (sometimes illegally) destroyed every day by building work. This latest case is tragic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns
Spot the Swallowtail! (Still a couple of spaces on my @greenwingstours.bsky.social Swallowtail day-tour this Wednesday)
Despite the summer showers, these beauties are out and about at the slightest flash of sun. I’m leading more Swallowtail tours tomorrow and Wednesday and there may still be a place left on Weds for any lastminute fairy-folk! @greenwingstours.bsky.social
A few people saying this is AI but it's a Lesser Purple Emperor and the wing flashing is very characteristic, with its eye-spots designed to alarm, repel or befuddle potentially dangerous birds.
Stupendous Swallowtails showing on the Norfolk Broads today. Must be best ever @greenwingstours.bsky.social tour day! Also starring red footed falcon, cuckoos, baby Chinese water deer. Thanks @benlewisuk.bsky.social. Still places on this Wed’s Swallowtail day-trip if any spontaneous folk fancy it!
Dear Bluesky folk, What are your favourite nature-quest non-fiction books? I'm writing a piece about this peculiar sub-genre. My own The Butterfly Isles is one but there's also Much Ado About Mothing, The Orchid Hunter, Orchid Summer, Chasing the Ghost. There must be loads of others I'm missing!
We have to find an alternative organising principle to unceasing economic growth, which is destroying our planet and human health & wellbeing. Good analysis of important World Justice report by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Patrick Barkham
Patrick Barkham
Patrick Barkham
Plenty of food for thought in this article.
Not least the proposal for attempting to shift the larval food plant of the English subspecies of Swallowtail.
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Juvenile kestrels surprised by a butterfly.
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Edward Pollard
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Abstract The Swallowtail butterfly, native to the United Kingdom (Papilio machaon subspecies britannicus), is found almost exclusively in the Norfolk Broads, where it has been isolated for nearly 50 y...
