Graphic titled “Why Protection Matters.” Text describes the role and threats of six species: Oyster Mushroom, California Boxthorn, Crotch’s Bumblebee, Santa Ana Sucker Fish, Belding’s Savannah Sparrow, and Gray Fox. Message emphasizes that each faces human-caused challenges but that protecting biodiversity is vital for the future of the Coastal Corridor. Small illustrations of the species are included at the top.

The Coastal Corridor is home to incredible species—from mushrooms and shrubs to bees, fish, sparrows, and foxes.

But every one of them faces challenges, from habitat loss to climate change. Protecting biodiversity means safeguarding the future of our coast.

#BiodiversityWeek #CoastalCorridor

Graphic for Biodiversity Week featuring a photo of a gray fox standing in grass, looking toward the camera. Text explains the species can climb trees, lives in Southern California chaparral and scrub, feeds on fruits, insects, and small animals, and helps balance ecosystems.

Say hello to the Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)!

The only fox in North America that can climb trees, it thrives in SoCal's chaparral and scrub. With salt-and-pepper fur and a black-tipped tail, this nighttime hunter helps keep ecosystems balanced.

#BiodiversityWeek #CoastalCorridor #Wildlife

🐦 Meet the Belding’s Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis beldingi)!

This endangered subspecies stays year-round in California’s coastal salt marshes.

Protecting salt marsh habitat means protecting this unique coastal songbird. 💚

#BiodiversityWeek #CoastalCorridor

🐟 Meet the Santa Ana Sucker (Catostomus santaanae)!

This small, olive-gray fish is found only in Southern California rivers, including the Santa Ana. Safeguarding its habitat means safeguarding biodiversity in our own backyard. 💧

#BiodiversityWeek #SantaAnaRiver #CoastalCorridor

🐝 Meet the Crotch’s Bumblebee (Bombus crotchii)!

This yellow-faced native pollinator is now endangered due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change.

Protecting pollinators like Crotch’s bumblebee is essential for a resilient Coastal Corridor. 💛

#BiodiversityWeek #CoastalCorridor

Join Save The Snakes founder Michael Starkey and other experts TODAY for a panel on California's incredible biodiversity! The event is from 12-1 PM PDT. Don't miss it!

Register to join at: ca-water-gov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#BiodiversityWeek #CaliforniaConservation #Biodiversity #SaveTheSnakes

Graphic for Biodiversity Week featuring California Boxthorn (Lycium californicum). Shows green leaves and red berries on thorny branches. Text explains it’s a coastal shrub that provides food and shelter for wildlife and supports shoreline biodiversity.

🌱 Meet the California Boxthorn!

This hardy coastal shrub thrives in sandy soils and bluffs, forming dense thickets that shelter wildlife. Its thorny branches, green leaves, and clusters of red berries make it a vital food source for birds and pollinators.

#BiodiversityWeek #CoastalCorridor

Graphic titled “Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)” with photo of clustered, fan-shaped mushrooms. Text explains they grow along the Coastal Corridor, smell faintly of licorice, and recycle nutrients by breaking down dead wood.

🍄 Say hello to the Oyster Mushroom!

These fungi grow on decaying wood in layered clusters. With their fan-shaped caps and faint licorice-like scent, oyster mushrooms do more than catch the eye—they recycle nutrients and keep ecosystems moving.

#BiodiversityWeek #CoastalCorridor

A beige background with the Hills For Everyone logo, right, and a calendar and label: Biodiversity Week (September 6th). Below it is a food chain with five bubbles of differing colors (yellow, orange, blue, purple, pink) and labels (producers, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, and quaternary consumer). It is in a circle flow indicating dependency on one another.

It is Biodiversity Week.

In every food chain, producers like plants capture energy from the sun, while consumers—herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores—depend on them and each other. It’s nature’s cycle of energy flow!

#BiodiversityWeek2025 #BiodiversityWeek

A #BiodiversityWeek field outing to Ardnamona Woodland NR was enjoyed by all 🌿 Ralph Sheppard (BSBI) led us in the footsteps of Henry Chichester Hart and Robert Lloyd Praeger on a commemorative walk marking 100 years of the Irish Naturalists' Journal. #INJCentenary

#BiodiversityWeek in Glenveagh. Emer Magee (NPWS & INJ) presented on the Irish Naturalists’ Journal in its Centenary year to a network incl. NPWS, Coillte, LawPro, ACRES, LIFE, ATU, ETB & Donegal CC. #INJCentenary

Two women in front of a screen with nature images

Group of smiling people in a lecture theatre with drinks and plates by their seats

Woman in black dress talks by a slide on screen with text

Two women in front of a screen with a photo of wildflowers and people walking in a wood

Thanks to all who joined the NCI #BiodiversityDay event at Maynooth University, May 22, as part of Kildare #ClimateAction Week via #KildarePPN with NCI Executive Coordinator Deirdre Lane and Dr Maria Fitzpatrick presenting on our decade of work to #ValueNature 🌿 #NCI10
#BiodiversityWeek

May 22 marked the International Day for #BiologicalDiversity. To celebrate #BiodiversityWeek, ICLEI South Asia is spotlighting the unsung heroes of our ecosystems — trees!

Let’s look at how some common trees contribute to clean air, water retention, shade, biodiversity, and more. ⬇️

Thanks to biodiversity officers, organisations, volunteers and communities who put on events in celebration of nature for #biodiversityweek

Here's 55 seconds of noisy black headed gulls from my visit to Lough Ree with the @breedingwaderseip.bsky.social
Play it loud!

🏫Milltown National School
🏫St. Mary's N.S., Castlerahan
🏫Killinkere National School

Each school received a specially selected Pollinator Box, supplied by Biodiversity in Schools, to support their ongoing efforts to protect and promote local biodiversity.

#BiodiversityWeek #CavanCountyCouncil

As part of #BiodiversityWeek, our #ERINNInnovation Project Spotlight is the @safenet-eu.bsky.social. Launched in February 2025, SafeNet is tackling biodiversity loss and climate change in European forests. Learn more about SafeNet in our latest blog: erinn.eu/safenet-to-p...

Hawk Poplar moth with its wings extended.

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our Biodiversity Week walk this morning. The highlight for me was this Poplar Hawk moth that we found under the black walnut tree.

#Ballykilcavan #Laois #IrelandsAncientEast #Biodiversity #BiodiversityWeek

Stop the lowering of environmental protections for rivers and lakes - Sustainable Water Network The government is lowering the ecological targets on nearly 10% of our rivers and lakes without adequate rationale to justify this. They can do this by designating them as Heavily Modified Water Bodie...

We need MORE and BETTER protection of our waterways, not less as per this government plan.

Please take action TODAY before 5pm by sending an email - SWAN has made it easy with an email already set up on their site 😀

#biodiversityweek

swanireland.ie/take-action/...

Yesterday #DublinBatGroup led a #bat walk around Bushy Park in #Dublin for #biodiversityweek we came across 4 species (pips, leisler and daubentons) and introduced a whole pile of people to the joy of bat detectors 😁

#BiodiversityWeek

Collage of dandelion pics, some with dogs, toys, and a red hen

To celebrate #BiodiversityWeek & #NoMowMay, we held a photo competition for #TeamScottCawley to showcase the humble dandelion, ensuring they remain in the ground as a lifeline for our #pollinators🐝

We had lots of brilliant entries - some took the opportunity to parade their canine companions… 1/2

Biodiversity is not just biological richness, it's sacred relationship.

Each species lost is a voice silenced.
Each act of protection is a hymn of belonging.

How will you honor the sacred web of life this week?

#BiodiversityWeek #FaithForNature #SpiritualEcology #SacredSpecies #ReligionAndEcology

Butterfly in hand, speckled yellow dots on wings

Speckled wood #butterfly encounter by a young naturalist close to a #TeamScottCawley member.

A common species often sighted in marginal woodland and hedgerows - places where they can blend in well with the dappled summer light 😍

#IrishWildlife #féileacán #BiodiversityDay #BiodiversityWeek

One of Ireland's wildlife success stories is the return of this bird Cranes were culturally significant in Ireland, kept as pets by nobility and may have been associated in folklore with death

Here's a good news story for #biodiversityweek 🙂

Check out @rewildyourland.bsky.social for more reasons to be hopeful!
www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

#biodiversityweek #cloughjordan

Today, volunteers from Citywest and Community Volunteers teamed up with Dodder Action in Killinarden Park for National Spring Clean and Biodiversity Week! A big shoutout to everyone helping to keep our parks clean and green!

#NationalSpringClean #BiodiversityWeek #DodderAction #CommunityVolunteers

Looking forward to taking part in this workshop on Thursday which will focus on the impacts and control of invasive species like Rhododendron and how communities can take action.

🔗 shorturl.at/LYnw7

#BiologicalInvasions #InvasiveSpecies #BiodiversityWeek

🌳🌲🐾 #SafeNet is officially launched!

We are working to #safeguard #biodiversity and #carbon-rich #forest #networks across Europe.

Meet the project, explore the science, and see how we are collaborating for resilient forests:
🔗 safenet-project.eu
🔗 bit.ly/SafeNet-Launch

@luke.fi
#BiodiversityWeek

#cloughjordan #biodiversityweek #greensky

Something to think about - a timely message for #biodiversityweek