Over a quarter of a million seabirds on Rathlin Island are now safer! 💙
Rathlin Island has been declared ferret-free: a world-first conservation success helping Puffins, Guillemots and more raise their young safely again.
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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 🌷🌳🦡
New paper from @rspbscience.bsky.social shows that 8% of Key Biodiversity Areas in regions suitable for growing oil palm have some cultivation within them, but proportional extent of oil palm is 5X greater outside KBAs. url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/httpCX2Gh4... @keybiodiversity.bsky.social
I feel incredibly honoured (but a bit of an imposter) to have been elected today as a Fellow of the Royal Society today. Fantastic recognition for the conservation science that we do at BirdLife & testament to all my brilliant colleagues in BirdLife’s Science Division. @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social