Main foraging areas (75% AKDE) of male Goshawks foraging exclusively in forest (A), in forest and farmland (B), and in forest and town (C). Foraging areas of individual birds are indicated by different colours. The town of Hajnówka is shown in grey. White dots indicate known active Goshawk nests.

Several male Goshawks breeding deep in Poland's Białowieża Forest 'routinely travelled up to 20 km to hunt feral pigeons in a town' with the authors concluding that 'urban environments shape the foraging behaviour of raptors even within primeval forests' #ornithology 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have you ever wondered why bird blood looks so different from ours under a microscope? Unlike mammals, whose red blood cells are round, flat, and have no nucleus, bird red blood cells are elliptical and nucleated. #DidYouKnow #BirdBiology #WildlifeConservation

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Canada lynx kitten

Animal agriculture is wasteful and inefficient - not to mention - completely immoral. 🐮

👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/26/10-ways-animal-agriculture-is-wasteful-and-inefficient/

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Grey wolves howling

Nikai is using the extra hour of daylight for extra howls.🐺🎶

Meta removes UK politics deepfake pages after BBC investigation The warning comes as work to spot and combat deepfakes ahead of the Senedd election is taking place.

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The TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes YouTube video by Zoe Gardner

The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sure has put on a show…

But how much is really serious & how much is just a theatre of cruelty?

Here’s the TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes

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Finally, the important thing to remember, is none of this was necessary or essential. Trump is the sole cause of this situation. A new peace deal could have been easily worked out. But no the fantasist Trump, thought he could take over Iran and put it under American control.
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WCC’s Integrative Ecology and Coexistence Lab recently conducted a study showing that coyotes along the Gulf Coast, including those on Galveston Island, retain genetic ancestry from Red Wolves decades after the species was extirpated from the region.

🔗Read more: https://archive.is/aipRh

Rising water bills see pensioners in poverty skip baths Water bills will go up again on April 1. Pensioners like Judith are already feeling the pinch, rationing showers and laundry loads.

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise.

Full state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.

2m UK pensioners live in poverty.

In 2024-25, 88,000 pensioners died in poverty.

Govts don't curb profiteering.

Poverty is a political choice.

Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.

Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan.

Govt wants to restrict the right to jury trials to reduce backlog of court cases.

Backlog caused by Tory austerity and cuts.

Need investment, not cuts in human rights.

Lost rights are hard to recover.

Final decision on disputed price controls for 5 water companies An independent group of experts appointed by the CMA has decided how much revenue 5 water companies are allowed following their rejection of Ofwat’s decision.

Competition regulator allows additional 2% -4% increase in England water bills on appeal.

Regulators side with industry.

Companies to collect more money from captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay.

Rip-off continues. Who protects people?

The ‘Swiss Swindle’ — Does Starbucks short-change coffee-producing countries? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research While claiming 99% of its coffee beans are ‘ethically’ sourced, Starbucks’ shifts profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee-producing countries and perpetuating poverty in farming commu...

Starbucks claims of ethical conduct and supporting farmers are a sham.

It books profits from the purchase and sale of green coffee beans in Switzerland, dodges taxes.

Shifts profits. 18% mark-up on all global coffee purchases before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries.

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Did you know American Kestrels, like Fe, are the smallest falcon species in North America? These tiny powerhouses weigh about as much as a stick of butter, a cup of flour, or a ball of yarn! #AmericanKestrel #DidYouKnow #SmallButMighty

The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
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Fracking firm denied more time to restore Lancashire site Cuadrilla has

In Lancashire they're still waiting for a fracking site to be cleaned up so it's safe to farm on, years after fracking was paused:

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@shashj.bsky.social: "Interesting to see US satellite companies begin to clamp down. All now heavily delaying or restricting access to images from particular areas in the Gulf & wider region. Some also clamping down on images from within Iran."

"Time to Break The Link".

Our report can be found here: assets.ctfassets.net/fpr6c52ci39f...

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

This, as our friends across the pond might say - “nails it”.

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Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about our troops.
He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.
He never has and he never will.
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*ellipsis - *almost 80

I used to watch the original USA
“The Apprentice”
(for the cringe/comedy value) especially the celebrity editions (much better than the UK version imo)…I’ve no truck with those that say he’s a socio or psychopath - far too simplistic & unhelpful imv.
He’s Classic NPD
with signs of Dementia 80
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences.

Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate.

Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers.

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Who voted for this?

Water companies dump sewage in rivers. Execs get bonuses for destructive practices. Shareholders got £85.2bn in dividends.

6.17m people in England await 7.29m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die prematurely.

Policies made to appease corporations and super rich.

Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG

UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.

Maximum capacity is 12 days.

Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.

UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.

The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.