The Green Shores team have been busy the last few weeks, planting, field trips, organising fencing to protect new planting sites as well as keeping up with the plant propagation.
One of our volunteers spotted this amazing Emperor moth after a planting session at Dornoch Firth and shared it with us.
This is why we are doing all the work, to build spaces for biodiversity that have been lost or degraded.
Photo by J Robinson #moth#Biodiversity#Saltmarsh#NatureRestorationFund
In ganz Deutschland herrschen die Motorsensen. Ganz Deutschland? Nein, auf einem kleinen Fleck vor Mietshäusern in Berlin-Wilmersdorf dürfen Blütenpflanzen wachsen…. #Stadtnatur#Nature#Biodiversity
There are so many pretty flies I had never seen before. Today I came across a red bodied one that was too fidgety to photograph well but was unlike the one with a red stripe I found on the glass last week. And a golden sheen one with a metallic blue bottom that appears to have white frets on the side #biodiversity#inthegarden#insects#latespring
A Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) standing out against a background of submerged sacking in a pathside pond.
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
#YellowRattle is used proactively to create & restore wildflower meadows, where it aids #biodiversity by suppressing dominant grasses & recycling of #soil nutrients. This improves chances of other species of wildflowers becoming established.
Nouvelle fiche : une #éponge (pas facile à discriminer de certaines copines sans exam' des #spicules) de Manche et probablement Méditerranée, un peu hirsute :
L'éponge-buisson plat orange.
Mexico has had a long history of resilient agricultural systems and food cultures that reflect the country’s agrobiodiversity. With GEF funding, FAO and CONABIO are reviving traditional practices to support the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods and meet the population’s nutritional needs
RT by @EU_ENV: Not only are freshwater habitats essential for flood control and #ClimateChange mitigation, they provide a home for over 25% of all described vertebrates.
They are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet for their #biodiversity and importance to livelihoods.
Around the world, free-flowing natural rivers are being fragmented by dams, weirs and other barriers. It’s one of the biggest, yet least acknowledged, causes of biodiversity loss worldwide.
River fragmentation is a key reason migratory fish populations have declined by 81% since 1970, according to a new report by the Living Planet Index – a rate of wildlife loss six times that of animals that live on land or in the sea. #Rivers#Biodiversity#Environment#Dams
Wikipedia: "The plant is rich in calcium and phosphorus and as such makes up the bulk of the diet of white-tailed deer in the northeastern United States in the spring."
How do we live together in #nature? Wood meadows, a managed & productive #ecosystem, can achieve this balance, a model of human activity benefitting #biodiversity.
For research, I’m going to the 14th European Conference on #Ecological Restoration this August in #Estonia, where the wood meadows are the most biodiverse sites in the world.
Traditional agrifood systems conserve biodiversity and support nutrition in Mexico (www.fao.org)
Mexico has had a long history of resilient agricultural systems and food cultures that reflect the country’s agrobiodiversity. With GEF funding, FAO and CONABIO are reviving traditional practices to support the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods and meet the population’s nutritional needs