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Emmy Nominations for #TheElephantandtheTermite in 3 categories - absolutely thrilled! Congratulations Team! 🏆Outstanding Nature Documentary, 🏆Outstanding Cinematography and 🏆Outstanding Writing @TerraMaterFS @ONSIGHT_UK @magicalkenya @kenyafilmcomm @TEQKenya @RED_Cinema

@TonyJuniper @BBCNews Good work - congratulations on increasing the area devoted to wildlife and habitat restoration.

A very nice @BBCNews report on yesterday’s declaration of the Mid-Cornwall Moors NNR: Nature, culture, history & landscape celebrated via a cross-sectoral partnership.

@TonyJuniper @BTO_Cornwall I think it’s likely a gull ringed for a university of Exeter project. You can email pic to: urbangullproject@gmail.com projectcgull.com

Colour ringed Herring Gull St Austell Station, Cornwall. Any ideas @BTO_Cornwall as to who’s collecting data?

@RosieP4 @nationalgriduk Who is the ecologist employed by?

Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating “”In accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicable”. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds. (This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury) @PylonsEAnglia

@JackPerksPhoto iNaturalist is great - whether for recording your own stuff or validating that of others.

I’m after any suggestions for good nature apps that everyone should have on there phone (Merlin I know before I get bombarded) and general apps to pass the time currently on way to airport!

@gnome_alice They are wonderful birds. We had one we hand-reared as a chick ( fell off a roof in Newlyn). It still comes by every day - it’s 28 this year.

This beautiful bird, with a droplet on the end of its bill, sits on the bonnet of my car. Why do people vilified them, they can be inconvenient at times, so can I

@PlanktonPundit Catch and kill is the only way to keep a strict adherence to quotas. So many of the released fish die due to hyperthermia, acidosis or lactic acid induced necrosis so, effectively, are ‘unseen’ = uncounted by the ICCAT UK quota.

Catch and kill, but not catch and release. The UK has just issued recreational catch and release licences for the 2026 bluefin sport fishing season. Regulatory authorities justify catch and release on the basis of the economic activity the sport fishery generates. I have always advocated that any bluefin sport fishing should only be catch and kill, as it was at the turn of the 20th century in UK seas. The size, behaviour and physiology of bluefin tuna make them ill-suited to catch and release sport fishing. Catch and kill should be further restricted to a licensed charter sector with trained skippers. (fishingnews.co.uk/features/bluef…). Catch and release results in an unknown level mortality or, a best guess, and this mortality  may consequently, exceed the recreational quota allocated to the UK for this heavily exploited animal. With catch and kill the mortality is known, the quota can be adhered to and the valuable tuna can enter the human food chain; this would be good economically, for animal welfare and for conservation. Unfortunately, we tend not to see fish as wildlife, as Lissa Wadewitz argued in her 2011 research paper ““Are fish wildlife?”  (Wadewitz L, 2011, Are fish wildlife? Environmental History: 1–5, doi:10.1093/envhis/emr043. academic.oup.com/envhis/article…) While Wadewitz wrote from an American perspective her observations are likely, applicable globally to western society. Wadewitz's article Abstract reads: "This essay argues that mainstream, primarily white, America has historically not valued common fish in the same ways as other more charismatic species, particularly land and sea mammals. The physical characteristics of an animal, its habitat type, its commercial value, and ideas about property in animals all may have influenced popular perceptions of aquatic versus terrestrial species. These issues have, in turn, greatly influenced regulatory and conservation efforts for some species.” To make an analogy that may appear flippant and I hope doesn’t affect my scientific credibility on bluefin tuna (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… & fishingnews.co.uk/news/why-are-b…): In the UK, deer and, in some places, hedgehogs have increased in abundance. How would regulatory authorities or the general public react if game shooters requested licensed, target sport shooting of hedgehogs or deer using paintballs or rubber bullets respectively, methods appropriate to the size of species? Some deer and hedgehogs inadvertently, may die but others may not be mortally ‘harmed’. And while some animals may limp away with a just a bad bruise or broken bone they would heal in time and live to be targeted another day. Under such a  licensed regime shooters could happily practice their wildlife shooting skills on a live moving target. The shooting industry would benefit economically from the extra sporting activity. Surely, nobody would have a problem with that? It’s just shoot and release.” I suspect Schoppenhauer arguments would be made to justify what cannot be rationally, justified. @natgeo @BBCPaulMurphy @ICCAT

@Dartmoor_AC Wonderful butterflies! Always a joy to see them. Their migration, that can take several generations, was one of nature’s great mysteries. butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/…

Dozens and dozens of Painted Ladies and Silver Ys on St Agnes today - all fresh in

@WriterHannahBT Mine was a grasshopper warblers - always wonderful to hear one trilling.

First bird of my day: a collared dove taking a sip of water. Did you know they only started breeding in the UK in 1955? #firstbirdofmyday #whatsYours

@BenGoldsmith It’s a sad reflection on wildlife and wilderness. The more out of touch people are with it, then the more they fear it. Sensationalism and ignorance triumph over nuance and understanding unfortunately.

The British are the most zoophobic people in the world. That whole David Attenborough thing? A big lie. Most Brits want to live in a parking lot. No wildlife at all. Or at least nothing more charismatic than a blue tit. So depressing.

@gnome_alice You’ll be perfectly dressed today then!

#Botallack this afternoon. Moderate sea, faint breeze, low tide. Bright sunshine. Beautiful. I was dressed for the cold wind of recent days. I suffered. #TinCoast #Kernow

@WriterHannahBT A few at Gurnards Head over the last couple of days - plus a house martin.

FIRST SWALLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has anyone else seen any?

@susanpenhalig0n Unfortunately it looks like your account has been hacked. I had a couple of strange DMs this morning asking me to vote on a Spotify podcast award which have now been removed. Just passing it on, but it would be worth investigating.

@Dartmoor_AC I’m in exposed the far west, so we’re behind - but the oak is appearing and the ash is behind 🤞🏼🤞🏼

I've got 5 oak trees in my garden and this one is always the first to come into leaf - it is miles ahead of the nearby ash tree #spring

@BenGoldsmith Vulture population down 90% in Kenya, a former stronghold - mostly due to poisoning with Furadan vs lions and hyenas. 4 sp now critically endangered.

More from the war on nature.

@WriterHannahBT That’s the sad reality - but we need these victories to foster hope and change.

@markdeeble1 Well it’s only a significant victory because of the catastrophic loss

Go get The Guardian today & bathe in this GOOD NEWS: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Required reading - released by UK gov and effectively buried at the height of the Davos-Greenland noise. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae…

@WriterHannahBT @markruskell Fabulous news!

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously! 4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦@markruskell⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

@WriterHannahBT Let’s hope Scotland’s politicians are more aware of out Nature depleted status than the incumbents at Westminster! 🤞🏼🤞🏼

I’ve given the last 4 years of my life to trying to get England to mandate swift bricks. Now I have just a few hours to wait until Scotland votes. By tonight Scotland could have passed swift bricks into law. What would you do? I’m sipping a margarita….

@emilyluisa23 @A2BTaxiCabs Appalling behaviour - if this driver is representative of @A2Btaxicabs I won’t be using them again.

@A2BTaxiCabs I hope this person never drives a taxi again !!!!