This is the loveliest story. Two Elephants Reunited After More Than 20 Years Shirley and Jenny youtu.be/_A13QzFF05o?si=huBw… via @YouTube

Chickens purr when they're happy 😊 fb.watch/GJ3lzaR-AF/ via @FacebookWatch

Totally unacceptable for someone like this to hold the post of councillor for any party.

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds. The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic pigeons bred to be small and white, and they have no survival skills outside a coop. DIY releasers often buy white Ringneck Doves or King Pigeons, which have zero ability to navigate home. Nearly all of them die. Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons kill birds. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. They get lost and starve. Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, broken legs, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated the birds can barely stand. One rehabber described treating a white pigeon from a release whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull. There is no version of this tradition where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing story. The reality is that you paid to traumatize and usually kill a domestic animal for a 15-second photo moment. If someone you know is planning a dove release for a wedding, funeral, or celebration, tell them. Bubbles, sparklers, dried flower petals, or ribbon throws all photograph beautifully and don't kill anything. The birds are not props, they are live animals that need proper care.

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years installing nest boxes for barn owls in his free time. No grant. No organization behind him. Just Robert Salter, quietly building and mounting over 350 boxes across fields and farms on weekends, before and after work, for three and a half decades. This year was the second-best barn owl breeding season in the region in decades. 304 owlets counted. Last year there were 95. Barn owls have struggled across the UK for generations due to habitat loss, rodenticide poisoning, starvation from agricultural changes that eliminated the field margins where voles live, and collisions with vehicles on roads that cut through their hunting territory. In many parts of England, populations collapsed while nobody was paying much attention. One man paying attention changed the outcome for an entire region. "This bird has lived alongside humans since they settled in this country," Salter told the BBC. "Because of that close relationship, I just feel like we owe it to barn owls to help and maintain their future populations." The conservation story we usually tell involves governments, legislation, and international agreements. Those matter, but so does one person who decided a species deserved better and just kept showing up.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage:them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling, some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

A murmuration of Starlings perform an enthralling aerial display near Brighton's West Pier in Sussex, UK. 🎦 Credit: X Découvertes.

For over twenty years hunts have hidden behind the smokescreen of ‘trail hunting’ and have exploited the loopholes and exemptions that are in the current Hunting Act. The consultation into banning 'trail hunting' consists of 29 questions and the HSA have provided guidance to assist you in formulating strong responses that can be written quickly and easily. The HSA has over 60 years' experience in the field and we have applied our extensive knowledge of hunting to the guidance we have provided to ensure that a watertight ban is finally implemented. Find out more and read the guidelines at 👉 huntsabs.org.uk/ten-weeks-le…

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The Ezo red fox is native to Hokkaido and is one of the island’s most photographed wildlife subjects

For the first time in 20 years, white storks have returned to Chornobyl. Over the years, they have only been spotted there whilst passing through.

Male Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) at a site in the Lower River Shannon catchment last week. The fish it is eating is a Perch (Perca fluviatilis). Fish are swallowed headfirst to prevent injury to the throat from spines or scales. The Kingfisher is Amber-listed in Ireland and is listed under Annex I of the EU Birds Directive. While widespread along Irish rivers, it is sensitive to habitat loss and pollution. It is very vulnerable to river maintenance works that remove vegetation cover and destroy the banks in which it nests.

🥹 Ukraine: A frontline unit discovered a lost dog and cat at their position, so they sent them away to safety on a 12km drone flight back to their command. Ukrainians refuse to lose their humanity even as they are forced to confront the greatest evil on Earth, alone, for years.

The "elusive woodland antics" of pine martens have been captured by trail cameras on Dartmoor and Exmoor. Read more: tinyurl.com/m6en55ce Credit: Two Moors Pine Marten Project

Today is International Beaver Day! Celebrate nature’s environmental engineers. Beavers transform degraded, narrow streams into vibrant, complex wetlands by building dams that slow water, increase biodiversity, and raise water tables. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

Another reason to save our woodlands: a red listed Woodcock.

If your Tuesday needed a lift, this little fox cub hanging out in the bluebells might just do the trick. 📸: Rob Carter

There are just 900 polar bears still living around the Beaufort Sea. But now the Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to give oil companies the go ahead to injure and kill them. Tell the Fish and Wildlife Service: Protect polar bears, not oil companies: environmental-action.org/tak…

Please don’t pull or spray Dandelions! They are a lifeline for #pollinators on the brink, acting as a crucial early-spring food source when few other flowers are blooming. They provide essential nectar and pollen (protein) that help #bees emerge from winter.

Happy #InternationalBeaverDay Beaver Trust is a registered charity dedicated to restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes. Find out more about our work and this incredible keystone species on our website👇 beavertrust.org #RestoringBeavers #RegeneratingLandscapes