Pigeons Post Apocalypse Feral pigeons nesting beneath the Eastgate Centre, Inverness. I found it sad.

This is what we’re fighting for ❤️🦊

BREAKING NEWS - We did it! 📢🦋 The use of neonicotinoid pesticides has been refused for this year. Thank you to the 42,601 supporters of the #ButterflyEmergency who helped make this happen. (1/4)

‘@WildJustice_org challenges Dartmoor Commoners’ Council in High Court to tackle deterioration of wildlife habitats’👏 Our national parks are wrecked by a tiny few whose ‘common’ grazing rights allow them continually to raze whole landscapes with their sheep. It would be easy for those with grazing rights in our national parks to transition away from highly destructive sheep ranching to a gentler, more traditional way of farming with native cattle, as was the case for centuries until just three or four generations ago. Being non native, the sheep themselves are miserable, dying in their droves from exposure and disease each year; nobody makes any money from sheep monocultures – it’s a hopeless business model; and the result for the rest of us is that our national parks are not worthy of the label. A wilder approach to farming in our national parks with native cattle instead of sheep, and an emphasis on nature recovery, is the best and only pathway to economic and social renewal in these remoter landscapes. Society is more than willing generously to support farmers in this transition under the new Environmental Land Management scheme. Change cannot come soon enough. Nothing ever changed in the past because of an endless flow of taxpayer-funded subsidies for the status quo. And as history shows over and over, an industry which lives for decades on an opioid drip of subsidy grows incapable of innovation. So we’re now told monocultures of sheep are the last and only ‘culture’ we can have in our national parks, forever, with no change countenanced. Forget the diverse, vibrant past of common land, the cutting of turf, collecting of fuel, honey, fruit and nuts, the domestic ponies, the ‘pannage’ putting out of pigs in the autumn - all gone, never to return. All we can have now is sheep in our national parks, in their tens of millions, forensically munching every last sprig of nature that emerges. Stuff that. The Commoners’ Councils are taking the rest of us for fools. If it takes a High Court action by one brave little NGO to move things along, so be it. wildjustice.org.uk/sssis/wil…

A wild male Cassowary in Far North Queensland Self evidently he let me go

NEWS: Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons ☠️ Our new report, Collateral Damage, shows a Government scheme isn't working for wildlife. Today it's reported in @newscientist Read it here: newscientist.com/article/245… @ChrisGPackham @RuthTingay @MarkAvery

Goodbye climate change 🌍 Hello superabundance 🚀 Here's how to eliminate 90% of greenhouse gas emissions in 15 years: hubs.li/Q02XsSGY0

At the mouth of The River Conon at the end of Cromarty Firth just after sunup. Scotland is such a delight

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Ban driven grouse shooting - a Victorian sport that has transformed vast swathes of Britain’s ecosystems for the worse:

Anyway, here’s a gratuitous squirrel.

Squirrels, they’re my kind of people

Squirrel in training

The last Poppy at Portmahomak #WildflowerHour

Life history plates from F W Frohawk's 2 volume Natural History of British Butterflies, for which he bred all the British species through their various stages

‘Repost’ if you agree! We’re opposed to the bird shooting industry and are fighting to end it.

A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them all killed? | George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfre…

It's baffling – sacrificing our landscapes, tarnishing the environment, all to optimise conditions for red grouse so people can blast them out of the sky for fun. This isn't the world we want to live in. RT and follow us if you agree!

All you need to know about Ullapool this afternoon @bbcweather @BBCScotWeather

House hunting in Scotland today