Simon Hedges

Tragic! Pythons and Orangutans Become Victims of Forest and Land Fires, Dozens of Wildlife Evacuated Please support our Emergency Fire Appeal: donate.orangutanlandtrust.com www.deliknews.com/2026/10/27/t...

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ever wondered how you can help hedgehogs? 🦔🌿 Visit our website for more information: www.londonhogwatch.org Fill out our Historical Knowledge Survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social #hedgehogs #londonhogwatch #cameratrapping #londonhedgehogs

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

ZSL at COP17 week 1 roundup! 🦋 The first week of COP17 in Armenia has been a whirlwind of negotiations, knowledge-sharing, and network building for the ZSL team on the ground in Yerevan @cop17arm.bsky.social

Important thread on AMOC & evidence Important for those who state AMOC is already collapsing And for those who say there is no evidence it is

A Muslim surgeon of Pakistani descent has won a Pride of Britain Award for his extraordinary work saving children’s lives. Asif Hasan has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Pride of Britain Awards, recognising decades of dedication to children with serious heart conditions #Migrants

Please don't leave Halloween pumpkins to rot in your garden, or dump them in the countryside. Eating mouldy pumpkins can make hedgehogs, birds and other animals poorly. Instead, dispose of pumpkins in a covered compost bin or council food waste bin. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-i...

Attributing success to a conservation intervention is not as simple as some press releases by conservation bodies would have us believe Solid evidence involves robust study design, such as BACI - Before, After, Control, Impact And well implemented monitoring protocols

"Meet John Healey, Britain’s bald fraud" Leaving aside the question of whether he is really is a fraud, @economist.com would you have said "fat fraud" or "black fraud" if the Chancellor was large or black? Gift article www.economist.com/britain/2026...

You can't clean up plastic once it's in the ocean You can't suck up fossil carbon once it's in the atmosphere You can't (quickly) regrow a forest once you've destroyed it Destruction needs to be addressed at source. It makes no sense to just damage everything and try to fix it afterwards

"Farage is failing to run a medium-sized business in line with the law, and yet is demanding the right to shape an entire country’s legal system." app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/164582...

Just one week till the Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair. We are hoping to have a few copies of our new book - an A4 version of our two Spain Poster Pocketbooks, with lovely prints of lots of posters, laced with information about the artists, and events during the Revolution and Civil War.

"He could never fathom what perjury had to do with cricket." I would have thought being a bounder and a cad, or rather, not, had everything to do with cricket Gift article www.economist.com/obituary/202...

You don't fight fire with fire - you fight it with water. So it's great to see the Environment Secretary announce new grants for peat re-wetting today - closing a looming gap in funding - as the PM holds a Wildfire Summit. My Guardian quote below: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Nature bounces back: 5,000 butterflies appear at chalk grassland restoration project at Halnaker Hill in Sussex, two years after its reversion from arable land I’ll be talking lots about chalk grassland restoration in my next book THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excellent piece about the “zombie” science of “race realism” - the claim that biological races exist. It reviews two books which should “finally nail down the coffin” of this claim, covering its history and a careful discussion of the responsibilities of scientists when researching related topics

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says UNEP report says window has closed on holding temperate rises to 1.5C, but swift cuts would enable overshoot to be limited Meanwhile, UK government approves a new gas field… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"My hope is that photographs like this help people realise how important it is to coexist peacefully and respectfully with animals that look different to us on the outside, but inside are very similar." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Fantastic that the government plans to increase tree cover But trees live a long time, and our climate will be very different by the time they mature So do we plant species thriving here now, or species that will thrive in future conditions? It's not a simple question, but we should be asking it!

The selfie's rehabilitation? "A chance social media encounter has led to the race-against-time discovery of a new species of giant waterlily that has until now been hidden in the depths of Colombia’s jungle." #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ConservationOptimism www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How India saved its #tigers—and #lions and #rhinos and #elephants. "India’s efforts are, of course, far from perfect. Indeed they have created problems of their own, not least the growing cases of human-animal conflict" Gift article www.economist.com/asia/2026/10...

“Our astronauts didn’t have much time, but thankfully they had Margaret Hamilton,” President Obama said. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.

Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You might consider @dorianlynskey.bsky.social, author of ‘Everything Must Go’ interviewing @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social about their book ‘End Times Fascism’ on a podcast called ‘The Bunker’ a bit on all the noses, I couldn’t possibly say.

This constant dripping of poison into the collective ear of the electorate is exactly how fascism begins. People should read more history books.

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

I’m not English either. But then I didn’t really think of myself as that… more British European… but the Brexity lot saw to that. Demanding that we had to lose our rights and European citizenship so they didn’t have to hear polish spoken on a train. Braverman’s politics is such inadequate bullshit.

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

On 12 October, MPs will debate rejoining the EU after a petition passed 100,000 signatures. The more MPs who turn up armed with our polling, the harder the case is to ignore. Use our tool: https://bestforbritain.org/take-action/tell-your-mp-restore-eu-membership/

"Who benefits from wildlife conservation in Africa? Simple question. The answer might decide the future of conservation on this continent." Good article on the importance of economic incentives wildlifeeconomy.info/article/who-...

Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.

“It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.”

I dare you I dare you to read this article about #management #consulting and not conclude it's a joke Gift article The greatest advance in consulting since the quadrant www.economist.com/business/202...

82% of Britons say protecting nature is important to them, new polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows “You don’t often get that degree of consensus” on any issue, says @luketryl.bsky.social - speaking at an event at Labour Party Conference with the heads of the big nature NGOs

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Some intelligence reports need to be kept confidential, for obvious reasons. This is not one of those - it's not about hostile foreign states, and it needs to be understood by ordinary UK citizens to inform decisions about their own safety and security.

Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...

Not surprised. The government, in fact all governments, seems to assume people are motivated purely by cash and retails politics - but we know that there is so much more that matters to people. Justice, rights, identity, the environment, security - these can all sway votes just as much if not more.

🔴 NEW UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

WCS's Olson said the findings lay the groundwork for better understanding bat physiology and, critically, how the mammals have evolved to be so resistant to disease: “How are they living with these viruses that, when they get into us, they cause so much damage?” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Watch our full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGE9...

Our paper is out in Ecology @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! We found that an extreme drought year drove a local population of a social rodent to extinction. A sobering example of how climatic extremes can drive population collapse. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

The far-right ideologues and grifters running U.S. foreign policy are the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America but the world, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports.

Truly warms the cockles that the sublimely wonderful Lady In Blue on the fourth plinth has enraged all the right people. Absolute parcels the lot of them.

The RNLI have got some great Christmas decorations, cards & gifts for sale online right now. It would be so lovely if you could take a moment to look, buy some cool festive items or just donate. Thanks for your time lovely people :) shop.rnli.org/pages/christ...