Arc Biodiversity & Climate

Here's @arcteam's long-proven roadmap to #ShapingBetterPlaces... how to #design for #biodiversity, #human #wellbeing & for #climate, building natural, social & cultural, through 9 simple principles. If you'd like to find out more about how we can help, get in touch & #ActNow!

Renovated Sandown Town Hall takes flight as haven for declining wildlife ift.tt/ekKc1i0

ISLE OF WIGHT BUSINESSES INVITED TO SUPPORT BIODIVERSITY AT FREE ISLAND NATURE SEMINAR - islandecho.co.uk/isle-of-wight-… #isleofwight #iwnews #iow

Island Nature islandnature.org is the Isle of Wight's Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Published in May 25 written by Arc/@SpaceIw for @iwight @DefraGovUK @NaturalEngland has been recognised as a National Exemplar to support #naturerecovery & those LNRSs working for it.

Head over to our shiny new website: thecommonspace.org.uk to find out more about the aims, campaigns, impact, our stories and actions past, present and future, as well as links to our family organisations: @ArtecologyDept, @iwbiosphere, Island Nature, Parish Futures! Thanks x

@arcteam have moved to THE COMMON SPACE CLG! @SpaceIw, formed in June 2015, has raised over a million pounds since to support the grassroots revival of the Isle of Wight, in particular the Bay. The Common Space has influenced natural, social and cultural change over a decade.

Jersey Tiger Moths sitting out the summer heat on a shady tree 🌳 Sensible.

Vespa crabro vexator, British form of the European Hornet. Ink, coloured pencil & acrylic

Let's play a game of spot the difference 🔎 One of these streets benefits from cooler pavements, calmer drivers, and cleaner air. The other does not. Can you tell which is which? 🤷

Please share widely! @NEThamesSolent @HantsIWWildlife @IsleofWightNL @ntisleofwight @IslandRivers1 @iwight @iwightradio @SpaceIw @arcteam @EnvAgency @ForestryComm

🌿 We need your help🌳 Have your say on nature recovery on the Isle of Wight! Share your views on priorities for conserving the Island’s important wildlife in the draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy: Consultation now open: 🌐 islandnature.org #NatureRecovery #IsleofWight

@iwight @NaturalEngland @DefraNature @DefraGovUK @HantsIWWildlife @ntisleofwight @Natures_Voice @NFU @CLA and all

The draft #IsleofWight LNRS launched for public consultation TODAY! Head to islandnature.org for more info, survey & videos! The Local Nature Recovery Strategy is here to help us restore ecological health, upon which we all depend. Here's to #NatureRecovery! Please share!

Our museum at Sandown Barracks Battery will be closed for 2025 while we get out sh*t together and hit the road. We’ll be sending our museum exhibition pieces near and far so watch out for updates in case we drop one at a venue near you! Want to be a venue? DM us for details.

Swift Awareness Week will run 28th June to 6th July. Please give #Swifts a home!

“Ladies & gentlemen here is the A14 mitigation project… thousands and thousands of plastic tree guards and not a single tree has survived … fabulous work !”

“Conservationists issue warning as figures show three-quarters of SSSI sites have had no recent assessments” English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny | Wildlife | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

Labour does not get nature. “The action plan is agreed & written. It is utterly baffling this new government would want to shelve". No wonder we are one of most nature-depleted corners of planet, with #biodiversity in free fall thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Original photos by @YWTLivingSeas Our Intertidal Habitat Panels are boosting marine biodiversity at Scalby Mills, Scarborough! 🐚🌊 Designed on the #IsleofWight for Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership’s Concrete Coast initiative written by @arcteam . Learn more on our website!

@RSBenwell @Keir_Starmer @WildLondon @CPRE @theTCPA @juliathrift @UKGBC @nationaltrust @CraigBennett3 @BeccyRSPB @WT_Darren People will continue to work hard to protect nature, Starmer needs education on the biodiversity crisis

Low-carbon tech, housing, sustainable agriculture and nature-recovery can be delivered together with intelligent planning. Here's hoping for a land use framework that: 🎄allocates space for nature 🎄links to planning decisions & incentives 🎄pools developer funds for nature.