One of those rare opportunities to manage a truly inspirational site has come up in the team. We are looking for a talented senior site manager for RSPB England 🌍 #Geltsdale reserve. This is a big exciting site to deliver for nature at scale. Details here: sc.vacancy-filler.co.uk/sl/dc/bgdh59

📢I've published an article in The Conversation highlighting why we should be paying more attention to tiny #arctic - #alpine plants which are sounding a warning for #biodiversity loss due to #climatechange .
Please RT to help combat #plantblindness !
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Our RSPB England 🌍 #Coquet Island webcams have gone live. Watch the progress of our Roseate Tern colony and front row seats inside one of the boxes. Also watch #puffins performing on our hide roof! rspb.org.uk/our-work/conse…

Incredibly intense fragrance coming from the large flowers of tree #peony , Paeonia rockii 'Su Sha Chan Yi', blooming happily in a sheltered spot in the garden.

A few nice plants flowering now in the shady areas of the garden

Well done Lee Schofield

An excellent day yesterday with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Caley & Alpine Garden Society coming together to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Scottish Rock Garden Club at Edinburgh Botanics, natal home of SRGC. Lots of good plants, friends plus an amazing cake to celebrate the day.

The Scottish Rock Garden Club celebrated being 90 years young Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh today. john mitchell led two brilliant behind the scenes tours. It was great to be joined by David Knott, David Morris, Lewis Normand 🇺🇦 and Raoul Curtis-Machin. #scottishhorticulture #alpineplants #plantconservation

Looking forward to tomorrow's Scottish Rock Garden Club 90th anniversary event at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. For now, a lovely form of #Iris stolonifera that's opened up overnight

Watch our exclusive piece on Channel 4 News
with David Morris and alex thomson at RSPB Geltsdale Nature Reserve summing up the research channel4.com/news/illegal-k…

Brilliant piece on Channel 4 News, covering the awful ongoing illegal killing of hen harriers.

David Morris was clear as ever and I thought alex thomson’s summing up was right on the money.

No option but regulation to drive the change we need to see.

Time for licensing.

Another excellent environmental piece by alex thomson for Channel 4 News highlighting the latest shocking persecution stats on hen harriers as revealed in a forthcoming paper by RSPB channel4.com/news/illegal-k…

Geltsdale in the N Pennines - exclusive new research connecting killing of Hen Harriers with grouse moors ⁦Channel 4 News⁩

Excellent report from alex thomson & Nanette van der Laan on the benefits of #rewilding for the environment & job creation featuring our landscape restoration with partners at Wild Haweswater

What a fantastic week away in the Cairngorms Connect landscape staying at Ballintean Cottage, nestled in a SCOTLAND: The Big Picture #northwoods rewilding network site. Full of nature right outside the door in Glen Feshie, its been the perfect #rewilding busman's family holiday!

Pine Marten was tonight's much anticipated garden visitor

A rather fine evening wander up through the forest behind the cottage with views out across Uath Lochans, the River Feshie & on to the snow capped tops of Invereshie & Inshriach NNR.

Tonight's garden visitors