A shiny red and black ladybug

They’re like little spring jewels. ☺️

Governments must seize energy crisis as pivotal moment to end fossil fuels - Greenpeace International Governments meeting at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, including Türkiye as this year’s UN climate talks president, must use the global disruption in fossil fuel supplies from the war on Iran as an a...

PRESS RELEASE Governments meeting at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, including Türkiye as this year’s UN climate talks president, must use the global disruption in fossil fuel supplies from the war on Iran as an accelerator for a just transition away from fossil fuels.

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Photo of a Spotted Towhee looking back at camera over its shoulder by Jim and Robin on Flickr. Graphic pink sparkles have been added around the bird and text says #FeelingCute

🪶 A Towhee for your Tuesday.

Pied Wagtail in the long grass

Mistle Thrush in a tree

Tufted Duck on the mere

Yellowhammer in a hedge

Beautiful walk today. Birding highlights: Ravens, Kestrels, Buzzards, Yellowhammers, Lapwings, Linnets, GSWoodpecker, Skylarks, Reed Warblers, Willow Warblers, Blackcaps, Cetti's, Chiffchaffs, Mistle & Song Thrushes, Swallows, House Martins, Tufted Ducks, Pied & Grey Wagtails #ukbirding

Side view of a Mullein moth

Mullein Moth

2 Swallow Prominents

Muslin Moth

Still not large numbers of moths in Marbury (VC58) but 3 NFY today with this wonderfully weird Mullein, Swallow Prominents and a Muslin Moth. Other notables 2 Streamers and a Lunar Marbled Brown #teammoth

Kestrel on a post with prey

Kestrel on a post with prey

Kestrels mating

Jay on the woodland floor

Highlight of today's walks was watching these 2 Kestrels. One caught something & sat on a post to eat it & then the male then tried to mate. Also Ravens, Buzzards, Sparrowhawk, Reed & Willow Warblers, heard my 1st Lesser Whitethroat & saw my 1st Whitethroat, Yellowhammers, Jays #ukbirding

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

Everyone can make a small contribution to protecting the habitat of these important creatures. Choose native plants. Plant native wildflowers, herbs like lavender and thyme, or shrubs such as cornelian cherry.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I sure hope you are right. #jailTrump #banfossilfuels

Snoqualmie Falls!

Emerald Lake is only one of many lakes that collect the considerable snowmelt in the Cascade Range. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, 22 Oct 2013. #NationalParks

Emerald Lake is only one of many lakes that collect the considerable snowmelt in the Cascade Range. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, 22 Oct 2013.
#NationalParks

5 takeaways from Maine’s new wildlife action plan From newly listed plants to the symbolic return of the gray wolf, the state’s 10-year plan provides a nonregulatory path to protect Maine's most vulnerable species.

Maine releases a new 10-year wildlife action plan.

Another plan.
Another framework.
Another decade.

Over the last 50 years, we’ve produced hundreds of conservation plans and wildlife populations have declined by ~75%.

What they allow us to avoid doing is the problem.

For New Global Forest Pledges to Succeed, They Must Center Forest Communities Recognizing Indigenous and community land rights is vital to protecting forests and achieving climate goals under the upcoming COP30 commitments.

𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘰-𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 26% 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦.

Probably one of the most cutest birds I ever saw! 🟢⚪️🔵🟣🔴

The Cuban Tody (Todus multicolor), one of the most colorful birds in the Caribbean, only ten centimeters long with a bright red throat, emerald green and a pinkish belly.

Photo by Yadiel Veunes [FB]
yadielveunes.com

#nature #birds #beauty

We Went to Minnesota: The Billionaire Land Grab Will Shock You YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Really informative video about how the current regime is handing our public lands over to billionaires. If you are in the western part of the country, be aware that it’s really going to impact us. Much of our land is going to be up for grabs.

Black and white bat with pink ears

Small pink baby bat held in a white-gloved hand.

Brown colored bat with large nose and large ears.

Fluffy red colored bat on a pink and yellow background

Happy Bat Appreciation Day! Thank you for celebrating bats with us today and every day! 🦇
#bats #arizona #wildanimals #batappreciationday

Black Baza.

The black baza (Aviceda leuphotes) is a small bird of prey found in the forests of Northeast India, the eastern Himalayas, China and Southeast Asia.

It is a distinctively coloured raptor.

📸: Shomi Gupta

The image has multiple tangled, dwarf oak trees with vines and poison oak covering the ground around them. One tree in the foreground frames the image, and as we look through the frame, we see all the tangled trees and vines. El Moro Elfin Forest (just called Elfin Forest) in Los Osos/Morro Bay, California. The trees are all very old, but never grew upwards much. Instead they branched out to the sides.

#ForestFriday #Scape

El Moro Elfin Forest is all very old and tangled dwarf oak trees.

#EastCoastKin #Hiking #WestCoastKin #ElfinForest #MorroBay #LosOsos #DwarfTrees

A male zebra finch on a perch, leaning towards and looking at the camera.

Beep is checking in to make sure you aren’t doom scrolling 🐥🫵

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This crow couple has been together for more than 12 years. She broke her beak 8 years ago in a collision with a car.He has patiently fed her and loved her since. They have babies every year and she is an affectionate mother, and the entire flock protect her. Living proof that…

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Seahorses were being pulled from Mozambique's ocean at an alarming rate. Then something incredible happened A community-led initiative to transform poachers into protectors is turning the tide for seahorses in the waters off Mozambique

The only way seahorses were saved here was by making them worth more alive than dead.
It worked.

But most species don’t get that option. They disappear without ever becoming economically useful….only ecologically essential.

Powerful scenes from our anti-SLAPP hearing in Amsterdam. 

Power belongs to the PEOPLE and we cannot let it be hijacked by BULLIES!

Greenpeace International is holding this Big Oil bully accountable in court under Dutch and EU law exposing their attempts at silencing our free speech.

Small bat, Bopple the canyon bat, next to a AAA battery (top), much larger bat, Duchess the western mastiff, next to a AAA battery (bottom).

Small bat, Bopple the canyon bat, next to a AAA battery

Duchess the western mastiff next to a AAA battery.

AAA battery next to the largest and smallest bats in the United States, the canyon bat and the western mastiff bat. 🦇

#bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #size

"The AI boom is being sold as inevitable progress, but the real question is not whether artificial intelligence can do useful things in theory. It is who owns it, who profits from it, what it is mostly being used for, and who pays the environmental and political bill..."

Tiger Swallowtail

#ButterflyWeek #InsectThursday #Inverts 🦋
Tiger Swallowtail on a Buttercup.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: WELC Earth Day Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Thank you for your interest in joining WELC's upcoming webinar! This is a great opportunity to connect with our team, get an insider’s view of our work, and learn more about how we’re making a differe...

Apr 22, 2026 10:50 AM Pacific Time - check it out! #environment #westernUS #publiclands #forests #mountains #lakes #rivers #wetlands

This isn’t a debate between “development”& “conservation.”

It’s a war between short-term greed and long-term survival.

Our forests aren’t luxury green spaces,they are life-support systems.

Destroy them,& we destroy the air we breathe,the water we drink,& the climate that keeps us alive.

White and orange hoodoos from Sunset Point

Ahhhhhh….views from Sunset Point today.

Bryce Canyon National Park
#nationalparks #hoodoos #bryce #utah #brycecanyon #canyons

Before porcupines, ground sloths performed similar work at much larger scales. When they disappeared, forests didn’t collapse. But something important was lost: unevenness.

a view of earth from the moon

POV: it's tax day and we’re all living on the most beautiful tiny blue dot in the universe… and a handful of greedy nature wrecking billionaires are ruining it for all of us.⁣
Add your name today to #TaxTheSuperRich >> act.gp/4kFsaNr