On Yom HaShoah, the Jerusalem Municipality displayed on the Old City walls images of the yellow badge, including the words “Remember” and “Never Forget.” 💙✡️

Amazing news.

Golden eagles are poised to return to the skies of England, supported by funding from DEFRA to move reintroduction from feasibility studies to on-the-ground delivery.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04...

Largest ever Government investment in threatened species recovery A total £90 million funding for species recovery across England

If we don't conserve our environment, we won't have a healthy nation for future generations.

Welcome leadership from DEFRA in recognising the importance of restoring our habitats, wildlife and natural heritage.
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Hundreds of plant species and birds facing extinction in Britain The rate of loss would be three times faster than in the past under a worst-case scenario as climate change and changing habitat take their toll, scientists say

A fifth of Britain’s native plants and dozens of bird species could face extinction by 2070, experts have warned. Stark new paper in Nature Comms. Story here 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

How you can donate to Hatzola after the Golders Green arson attack - The Jewish Chronicle Show your support for Hatzola and CST after last night’s incident which saw four ambulances set ablaze

How you can donate to Hatzola after the Golders Green arson attack

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Yes. As policy in this area is devolved Westminster can only set a land use framework for England.

Scotland has its own land use strategy and Wales operates under a Sustainable Land Management framework, but neither is as comprehensive as the new framework for England.

Land Use Framework How we can use our land more effectively to increase the resilience of our homes, communities, infrastructure, and food systems, while speeding up development and restoring nature.

With growing focus on food production, nature recovery and climate change, the UK Government's new Land Use Framework is a vital step towards smarter land-use decisions and a more sustainable and prosperous future.
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Wales strengthens environmental protections as landmark Bill passes Senedd | GOV.WALES Wales has taken another huge step forward in tackling the nature and climate emergencies after the Senedd passed landmark environmental legislation.

Good to see Wales catching up by setting legally-binding biodiversity targets and creating an oversight body to advise on their delivery.

As always, though, the proof will be in the pudding, with real action on the ground to protect wildlife and restore habitats.
www.gov.wales/wales-streng...

Iranians are celebrating the confirmation that Ayatollah Khamenei was successfully eliminated.

No one is celebrating death.

They are celebrating that they finally, finally have the chance to live.

Charity buys tract of land for Wales’ biggest rewilding project Project in Ceredigion aims to help country catch up with large-scale nature recovery projects elsewhere in UK

Exciting to see this major nature recovery project getting underway in Wales.

Rivers, peat bogs and ancient woodlands are set to be restored, locking in carbon, boosting biodiversity and reducing downstream flood risk.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yesterday, the @nationaltrust.org.uk released a family group and a pair of Eurasian beavers at two sites as part of a wider release across the Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in Somerset. This is the second licensed wild release by the National Trust, following the first in Dorset last year.

Five volunteers proud of their work (after another ten finished earlier) surrounded by piled up dead Rhododendron Ponticum.

A huge bush of rhododendron being tackled with various hand tools.

A surprisingly tall tree of rhododendron being bow sawed to the ground by an extremely determined volunteer.

The amazing people of Ilkley, Otley, Harrogate, and slightly further afield all rocked up to smash the destructive invasive Rhododendron out of West Wood. Tomorrow’s crew are gonna have light work because this lot exceeded expectations drastically and left us with one or two out of 80!!

Thanks for sharing, this was a really interesting read.

Encouraging to see early signs of success from curlew headstarting, even if it’s still too soon to know whether it’s a conservation approach that should be scaled up.

Pennines delight as drone survey offers hope for one of UK’s rarest birds Conservationists find dunlin chicks thriving in boggy habitat created in collaboration with landowners

A real success story showing how re-wetting upland peatlands by landowners and conservationists is helping one of the UK’s rarest birds, the dunlin, recover.

With peatland restoration gaining momentum in recent years, it’s vital to keep that progress going.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kingsdale Head is restoring peatland, boosting biodiversity & repairing heritage features with £101k+ #FiPL funding🌱

Find out more about the project and other FiPL case studies on our website👉 https://ow.ly/XsZp50Y5iBL

#YorkshireDales #Defra #FarmingInProtectedLandscapes

Pool of standing water on North Pennines peatland with patches of green sphagnum

North Pennines peatland with large pool of water and peat bunds in gully. Bright blue sky with minimal cloud.

North Pennines peatland with large pools of standing water. Fells in the background. Cloudy sky.

🔵Today is #WorldWetlandsDay
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems and we have them across the uplands of the North Pennines National Landscape. #northpenninespeatlands #celebratingwetlands #peatlands #wetlands #peatlandsmatter

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’

Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

Iranians deserve our voice.
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Grazing Ecology - Knepp At the heart of the Knepp rewilding experiment is the influence of ecologist Dr Frans Vera, and his book, Grazing Ecology and Forest History.

A good example is what Knepp Estate is doing - they use cattle, pigs and ponies to create disturbance and regenerate the landscape.

Even in wilder systems like that, it’s not a case of “just leave it and see what happens", but actively engaging with the land.
knepp.co.uk/rewilding/gr...

Monks Wood is an interesting experiment, but it looked at arable land, not ancient grasslands - which are very different habitats.

In any event, biodiversity depends on a mosaic of habitats. Not just broadleaf woodland, but also glades and other open areas, which comes with having grazing.

Nonsense. Grassland has been a core part of Britain's ecosystems for millennia.

Long before livestock, it was grazed by aurochs (now extinct) and red deer, which helped maintain areas of open pasture.

Conservation grazing simply replicates these natural processes using cattle, ponies and sheep.

If you're restoring bog cattle makes more sense, especially where there's molinia.

But the uplands aren't, as you know, just bog. Sheep can be useful, too, particularly on slopes with waxcap grasslands.

It’s about the right animal, at the right density, for the right time, in the right place.

Dame Barbara Hepworth was born #OTD 10 January 1903. Three of her nine 'The Family of Man' sculptures form a memorial to Benjamin Britten at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, the marshes beyond. They were installed here in 1976, the year after her death. That's the tower of Iken church in the target sights.

I’m tired of this “just leave the land alone” nonsense.

If you abandon a damaged habitat and let it “do its own thing,” it doesn’t heal, it keeps getting worse.

Landscapes don’t fix themselves. You need active restoration: re-wet the peat, replant the woods, put grazing back on ancient grasslands.

The challenge, though, is that existing agri-environment schemes under CS and the SFI, particularly UPL2 (low livestock grazing on moorland) and UPL4 (keeping cattle and ponies on moorland), don't, on the whole, provide sufficient financial support to incentivise upland cattle grazing.

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See, for example, what Hill Top Farm are doing in the Yorkshire Dales:
hilltopmalham.co.uk/farming-and-...

And similarly at Kingsdale Head, also in the Dales:
www.kingsdalehead.com

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It’s not really an either/or.

There’s lots of room for more upland cattle grazing - something that would help regenerate heathlands on the tops, as well as ancient grasslands and hay meadows on in-bye land.

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A little late to the party, but this is next on my reading list. 📖

Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years Wildlife trust is raising funds to buy largest piece of land in single ownership to come up for sale in England for a generation

One of the defining moments for nature in 2025 has been the momentum building behind the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social bid to buy Rothbury.

Ambition and decisive action like this is crucial for securing the restoration of the country’s cherished landscapes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...