🚨 THOUSANDS of animals are being killed as a result of getting accidentally caught in fishing gear, such as trawling nets - new research shows Each year industrial vessels in the UK are catching: 🪶 10,000 seabirds 🐋 1,000 porpoises, dolphins & whales 🦭 500 seals 1/2 🔽

Let's start with a good news story 💚 Following 25 days of vigorous local campaigning, residents in the supposedly-totalitarian country of China succeeded in halting highway construction that would have plowed through mudflats which 49 species of bird rely on for dinner and rest. Among these is the spoon-billed sandpiper, a migratory shorebird with a global population of less than 500, and which is considered “Critically-Endangered” by the IUCN. It’s a story as old as the automobile: straight roads make easy plans, and woe betide anything or anyplace, whether old-growth forest or mudflat, that is located along its path. So it was that on April 30th, in southernmost province of Guangxi, a highway plan was approved that would have severely impacted coastal mudflats that host 20,000 birds from 46 species including migratory ones. Under Chinese law, environmental impact assessments are required before any infrastructure project. A 27-mile long stretch of highway near Xichang town would cut right across more than 50 acres of mudflats and coastal mangroves, where a survey recently identified 14 spoon-billed sandpipers. The number qualifies the area to be of international importance under China’s commitment to the Ramsar Convention on the protection of ecologically significant wetlands. Aside from international law, the sandpiper is also rarer than virtually any other animal in the country, and already guaranteed the highest national protections. Li Jiahe came to learn about the sandpiper and the highway which threatened it while he was at university in the Netherlands. Online outcries reached Mr. Li at school, and loving all animal species, he quickly took action for the first time in his life to try and save what the Chinese English-language outlet Sixth Tone described as “a handful of birds he has never seen in a place he has never visited.” "We’re all ordinary people. We are small. But if we can raise awareness and plant a seed in people’s minds, that’s already a good thing,” Li told the outlet. More here: goodnewsnetwork.org/in-the-l…

If you think that dramatic spikes in ocean temperatures aren’t much of a concern, it’s time to think again. There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #heatwave #ClimateBreakdown

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth in Normandy: "Today, dangerous ideologies storm other European beaches." "Boats and men keep landing in Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria." "When will Europe’s capitals stop this invasion? Too late already?" No class. Disgraceful. Worst D-Day speech an American has ever given. This man is pure clown.

The Scottish Seabird Centre - one of Scotland’s leading authorities on seabirds - has joined growing calls to stop the Guga hunt - the annual slaughter of Gannet chicks on the island of Sula Sgeir.

Up to 22 Swift nests were destroyed during demolition works carried out by Northeast Demolition UK on behalf of Hill Group and Clarion Housing. Conservationists have described this as a significant wildlife crime. Surrey Police had been warned that Swifts were actively nesting.

#Krill New technology is the enemy for whales in the Antarctic. Norway is deploying 30 ft drones to locate areas of highest krill density—just where the whales will be. They're using AI, sonar, airborne drones, USVs (unmanned surface vehicles) and satellite imaging. The tech is predicted to increase daily krill catch by 22%. How can wildlife compete with all this?

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

The Guga hunt has operated in the shadows for too long. But now it’s in the spotlight, and we’re going to end it.

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Last night we appeared on Scotland's most watched news programme, urging NatureScot not to grant a licence for the Guga hunt this year. Nobody needs to kill seabirds for a "prized delicacy" and it's shocking this has been allowed for so long.

Breaking: More than 700 dolphins killed in one day of Faroe Islands hunts amid equipment failures, chaotic scenes & arrest of conservation observers! Wicked beyond belief and utterly heartbreaking Complete blood thirsty devastation of a gentle species all in the name of tradition #NoWords oceanographicmagazine.com/ne…

Hundreds of dead sharks found washed up on beaches. This is the reality we don’t want to see, my hunch is a bottom trawler 😡 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkp…

RT @janischshane: The EU must stop looking away from the Faroe Islands’ grindadráp. Parliament and the Commission should use every politica…

US miner under further investigation after destroying WA habitat of black cockatoos, quokkas and numbats focusingonwildlife.com/news/…

In Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a female stork was widowed when her mate died. She is incubating her eggs and is unable to feed herself. Local residents have started feeding her.

Tientallen gevaarlijk vervuilde PFAS-locaties ontdekt, maar is 'topje van ijsberg' nos.nl/artikel/2614501-tient…

The time for whaling to end is now The continued whaling by Iceland, Japan and Norway is not about cultural survival or economic necessity – it is about politics, nationalism and the unwillingness of a few powerful interests to let go of an outdated and unsustainable practice