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Diving in to your lunch and someone tells you it's only 11am 🐛 #ClocksChanging #DaylightSavings #Dipper

📣 Just one week to go until March for Clean Water! We’re joining 50 other organisations, sports groups, local campaigners and individual activists to demand action for Britain’s waters. Join the march. Wear blue. Flood the streets. #MarchforCleanWater #WeAreWater #FollowTheFlow #FloodTheStreets

Today is Water Day at #COP16Colombia 💧 We’re one of over 100 organisations calling on all governments to put wetlands at the heart of their efforts to tackle the biodiversity crisis. Despite covering only 6% of the Earth’s surface, 40% of the world’s wildlife depend on wetlands. But these life-giving, carbon-storing, nature-bursting habitats are in trouble. This Biodiversity COP, we need governments across the world to recognise the importance of water and wetlands to all life. To increase efforts to protect and restore wetlands like our lives depend on it. Because they do. Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/edUZfxbn

As climate change accelerates, so too must our action to combat it. 🌍   We manage 10 fantastic sites across the UK totalling some 6,900 hectares. However, we know that warmer summers and wetter winters threaten these precious habitats and the wildlife they support.   That’s why we’ve established the Climate Resilience Fund, to support our work to protect and improve our sites, helping to safeguard them against the growing impacts of climate change.   We’re so grateful to Benefact Group for making the first contribution to the fund and for their ongoing support.   Together, we can restore wetlands and unlock their power. 🤝

Sorry boss, it was a rare lesser-white fronted goose! It won't happen again. (Yes it will).

10 years ago, tidal waters were allowed to flood the Steart peninsula for the first time in decades, creating what we know today as WWT Steart Marshes. Now, the super-powered nature reserve is a mosaic of fresh and salt water habitat, offering shelter to specialist plants and waders big and small, and acting as a buffer for the surrounding community against surging tidal waters. Agricultural land that was at serious risk of unmanageable flooding has been carefully and collaboratively returned to nature over the last decade. And the saltmarsh still provides valuable opportunities for local farmers to graze their cattle to this day. Reporter Rory Smith from The New York Times visited WWT Steart Marshes in March, and now tells its story through the experiences of its local community. 👇 https://lnkd.in/dGfuuXn4

📢 It's time to help end the era of lead for good. In just a few weeks, Environment Secretary Steve Reed will have the opportunity to end decades of poisoning from lead ammunition. Lead has been banned from petrol, paint and pipes, but not ammunition. This toxic chemical continues to poison our wildlife and communities, and enough is enough. Now is the time to #BanLead ❌ Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7334QXW

Fact: Connecting with nature can boost children's well-being 🌱💚 But, some children have fewer opportunities to discover, explore and learn about nature. PhD student Nicola Parkin has been researching the impact of our Generation Wild project, where we work with schools, children and families in communities to inspire the next generation of nature lovers. Read what teachers had to say to Nicola about Generation Wild 👇

⚠️Water is life. Yet here in Britain, it’s on life support. And without water, there’d be no wetlands. 📢 Join us in two weeks on Sunday 3rd November as we #MARCHFORCLEANWATER on the streets of London. Turn your outrage into action and call on the new government to stop the poisoning of Britain’s waters. Join the march. Wear blue. Flood the streets.

Do you know the signs of a healthy river? 🌿 From the sparkling water, to the marginal reeds or the larvae in the silt, all point towards how well a river is doing. In this week's episode of our podcast Waterlands, we explore the many different habitats within a river, what to look out for and what you can do about certain plants that shouldn't be there! Listen to episode 4 now! 🎧 https://lnkd.in/ef8QzCaW #podcast #waterlands #naturepodcast #rivers #invasiveplants #aquaticplants