Bitterns are booming back! 🎉

With numbers of booming males on the rise, thanks to dedicated efforts across our reserves, these secretive birds are making an incredible recovery.

It's fantastic news for nature 👇

Meet Merlyn, our new EarthSonic Archive Manager 🌍 With a passion for preserving the planet's natural sounds, Merlyn is set to enrich our sonic archive and foster harmonious collaborations all round! #Welcome #EarthSonic #SoundsOfNature #ClimateChange #SonicArchive #SoundArchive

BREAKING NEWS: Unprecedented conservation success for Saigas! A thread 👇

The Saiga Antelope, once ‘Critically Endangered’ and on the brink of extinction, has today been reclassified to ‘Near Threatened’ on the IUCN Red List. 🎉

Take a listen to our Making Tracks playlist on Spotify to explore the music of our many alumni to date!

open.spotify.com/playlist/09GOo…

📷 Ilinca Vânău

🚨BREAKING: Govt's utterly inhumane, grotesquely immoral & totally unworkable #Rwanda scheme has now been deemed illegal by the Supreme Court - the highest court in the land. Please, Prime Minister - time for an asylum policy which actually treats people with respect & dignity.

I want to be able to strongly advocate for a ceasefire, as called for by the UN General Secretary. In order to be fully free to do so, I have tonight stepped down from Labour's Frontbench.

My letter below:

For reasons I will never understand, when I was a first year at uni, a middle-aged Doctor from Gaza moved temporarily into the room opposite mine in halls.

We weren't sure what to make of our new neighbour. But after a day, I decided to knock on his door and say hello... 1/🧵

🦜 In the Anthropocene, aesthetics shape our connection with nature 🎨

🔗 Check what our authors, Andrea Santangeli 🇺🇦 &al, found about the beauty of bird #biodiversity
nature.com/articles/s4418…

#Birds #Conservation #Coloration #Nature npj Journals Nature Portfolio

No electricity, no food, no fuel for 1 million children. Straight from the horse's mouth. That can't be the civilised world's answer, whatever differences we may have on who did what to whom first or last.

The GCSE in Natural History has stalled in the Minister for School's office (Nick Gibb ) for 18 months. Please email him and ask why the delay? Please tell him you think it is vital we teach the next generation about nature. Draft text here: curlewaction.org/wp-content/upl…

there are no words…

Performing last week on the Finnish island of Suomenliina for Nordic Culture Point.

📷 Inga-Stina Heikkinen

September is a grief-riddled month for me. But this year I’m focusing on return rather than on leaving & loss. Overwintering #curlew are returning from Scandinavia to mudflats here. This song by Merlyn Driver turns bad omens to good & death to renewal. curlewsounds.bandcamp.com/track/simmerdi…

I really hope everyone just keeps saying “X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter” - it feels quietly subversive #formerlyknownastwitter

Morality police attacks a woman not wearing hijab in a car. Watch her fight back despite getting punched in the face.

To the undecided men: choose a side. And for the sake of humanity make interventions. This woman is all women of Iran. You’d do well to support them.

Just bizarre…

I was recently asked by Arts & Parts to write a piece about my journey to date through music and nature. I’m grateful to have been given this chance to reflect 🙏

You can read it via artsandparts.co.uk/blog/simmerdim

‘George was also full of a kind of energetic hope. There was something infectious about his optimism.’ Beautiful tribute to #GeorgeAlagiah from ⁦Allan Little⁩ bbc.com/news/entertain…

The relationship we have to people on tv is bizarre - I've never met or spoken to #GeorgeAlagiah but I feel a real sense of loss today.

Watching his reports from Africa, he was a hugely compassionate journalist - always looking to improve the lives of others.

A beautiful human.

Greek coastguard 'pressured' disaster survivors to blame Egyptian men. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…