Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain . Sparrows

Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain. Sparrows.

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery.
www.gov.uk/government/p...

A vibrant display of the Northern Lights in the night sky, featuring shades of green and red, with silhouettes of trees in the foreground.

Our Dark Skies Festival with the @yorkshiredales.org.uk is just one month away and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable celebration of the night sky 🌌

Take a look at the full programme: https://www.darkskiesnationalparks.org.uk/

📸 Chris Whiles

#DarkSkiesFestival2026

Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵

A particularly bright rainbow 🌈

This kind of day today! 🌧🌤🌈

The beautiful fringed flowers of the Autumn Gentian. Can you find a member of the Gentian Family, that’s the challenge this week from WildflowerHour. Don’t forget that Yellow Wort and the Centaury’s are also members of this gorgeous family!

Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting!

Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery Set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape

Read about @yorkswildlife.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social’s exciting Wild Ingleborough! A landscape scale conservation project. I was lucky to visit the nursery where wildflowers are being propagated in their thousands 💞 www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...

Good evening lovely 😍! #hedgehog #Malton #nature 💚

A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm

Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry

For more information, see the link below:

www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...

Rolling hills and patchwork fields divided by traditional dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales under a dramatic, cloudy sky. Sheep graze in the foreground, with sunlight highlighting sections of the green farmland.

A public consultation for the draft North Yorkshire & York Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now running until 11 August. And there are a number of events for Dales-based land managers and farmers. Find out more 👇

www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-...

#YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery

Small heath??

Timothy 😉

Loving your pics from Hickling. Hornsea mere or Lower Derwent Valley for GWP

Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Some butterflies and a moth from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Wharam Quarry in the week. Six spot burnet moth, small heath, roosting common blue and marbled white butterflies. Flowers a bit crispy but a lovely evening stroll. @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 💚

A red warning sign is attached to a wooden post next to a wire fence in a rural area. The sign reads 'YORKSHIRE DALES NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY WARNING RISK OF FIRE Please do not smoke or light fires.' The background shows an open field with green grass, rocks, and hills under a clear blue sky

The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe.

🔥 No barbecues or campfires
🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home
🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly
📞 If you see a fire, call 999

With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚

The challenge this week is to find a flowering aquatic wild plant, like this free-floating Frogbit pictured. A fascinating group of plants which have adapted to life in a watery environment 💦 🌱

With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱

Congratulations Anjana 👏

Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire

@savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚

@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social

For #WildflowerHour this week lesser spearwort (and friend 🐁), bladder campion, crosswort & water avens, hoary plantain, salad burnett, yellow rattle, bird's foot trefoil, commons spotted orchid & common milkwort 💚

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire!
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...

Better late than never for #wildflowerhour & not orchids! Wild gladioli, thrift, wild thyme, ivy broomrape, stinking iris, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, woolly thistle & wild carrot all from that there Purbeck down South! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Seaton Carew beach filled with little tern nests Volunteers are advising bird watchers now is a good time to watch eggs hatching.

Great news, hoping for a successful fledging too! 💚

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted.

Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.

#NoMowMay bringing joy & not just for plants, but birds, inverts, herps - all! We're lucky to have a pair of greenfinch & yesterday one feeding in our little patch 💚 Soon it'll be a little crèche for froglets 🐸 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

We've been doing #NoMowMay for a few years now & as it kicks off this week I'm sharing our little meadow in our back garden. We don't cut the front at all other than a postie path! Yellow rattle now becoming self-sustaining! Brings much joy!! 💚 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hull to hold events for global City Nature Challenge - BBC News Residents can log their flora and fauna observations using a mobile app.

@teamneyedc.bsky.social #Hull #Nature 👏💚

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...