Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
Herring wine made me search for this
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🦭 Does environmental complexity shape behaviour? Across 5 sea lion species, environmental heterogeneity promoted greater #behaviouraldiversity, while low-productivity #habitats favoured specialist strategies.
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On #WorldOceanDay, @fao.org launches the #CommonOceans Deepwater Shark ID Key, a new digital tool helping fishers, observers & scientists identify deepwater shark species & improve the data needed for sustainable fisheries.
Learn more 👉 https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/deepsea-sharks/
Marine historical ecology research can tell us about what our seas were like in the past
...and what people were reading at the time....
🦈 Fantastic rare footage released this #WorldOceansDay of a Great White in the Central Mediterranean!
#greatwhiteshark #shark
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Some interesting medicinal uses of herring🐟 in the mid-18th Century...
@projectfishistory.bsky.social
🚴 #FSBI2026 travel update!
Planning your trip to Southampton? The city is well connected by road & air, with easy local links to conference venues.
Details: tinyurl.com/FSBI2026Trav...
🌍 Consider lower carbon travel and share your journey for the Green Travel Awards #FSBIGreenTravel
Save Our Seas Foundation Conservation Fellow Dr Issah Seidu is one of the winners of the 2026 Whitley Award for Nature.
He is using the award to expand his work into more community-led conservation action/
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Caroline Lucas
A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and Sicily.
Save Our Seas Foundation Conservation Fellow Dr Issah Seidu is one of the winners of the 2026 Whitley Award for Nature. He is using the award to expand his work into more community-led conservation ac...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Alec BM Moore
Alec BM Moore
Alec BM Moore
The FSBI
Save Our Seas Foundation
English physician Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) wrote that eels could be used to treat alcoholism:
"Eels being put in wine or beer, and suffered to die in it, he that dranks it will never endure that sort of liquour again"
It seems that more recent estrategies (using Disulfiram) could work similarly
Dr Lauren Smith
Miguel Clavero
A new research roundup from ESA Journals!📰
From art as ecological data to owl-powered pest control, clownfish biodiversity, nature’s rights, bird responses to predators & fin whale hotspots—discover the latest insights: https://ow.ly/uNIw50Z9V2s
