Director of Conservation | Ecuadorian Amazon Parrot EEP Coordinator | UK Butterfly and Moth Geek 🦋 🦜
Norton-Juxta-Twycross, England
Joined April 2009
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Becca retweeted
Come and join us! This is a really exciting PhD opportunity for anyone interested in insect conservation, conservation genetics, or species reintroductions
📢 NEW PhD opportunity: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth
This exciting project aims to protect existing populations of the Kentish Glory (Endromis versicolora) and to reintroduce it into England.
Full details 👇
centa.ac.uk/studentship/2025…
📷: Dave Green
ALT A brown and white patterned moth with a fluffy thorax and feathered antennae, resting on a thin branch
Becca retweeted
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨
We are advertising three new lectureships on our £8.3 million E3 'Sharing Space for Nature' initiative.
2 Lecturers in Conservation Science - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx…
1 Lecturer in Marine Conservation - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx…
Deadline to apply is 6th May
Becca retweeted
#JobAlert @TwycrossZoo
We’re looking for a Conservation Science Manager, to help deliver our organisation wide conservation strategy and develop our National Science and Conservation Centre.
Interested in working with me and a fab team?! Link in comments👇🏽get in touch! 🌎 🦧 – at East Midlands, England
Becca retweeted
The much maligned Ragwort is one of THE most important food plants for many insects, as well as being the larval food plant for the Cinnabar moth. 7 Gatekeepers were dining out on this little patch, along with numerous smaller creatures. @savebutterflies @LeicsWildlife
Becca retweeted
How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
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Becca retweeted
BUTTERFLY NEWS - The first Purple Hairstreaks of the year in Northamptonshire were recorded yesterday (21.06.23) at Glapthorn Cow Pastures.
Becca retweeted
We’re now recruiting for a Project Officer to help deliver our work for the High Brown Fritillary and other species in Wales 📢
Find out more and apply here 👉butterfly-conservation.org/j…
#SaveButterflies #EnvironmentJobs
Becca retweeted
Extremely disappointed Government are scrapping the Kept Animals Bill.
Nonsense Minister blamed Labour for “broadening the scope of the bill” when it had such broad cross party support.
Single issue bills will not have the same impact @BIAZA @OfficialZSL @chesterzoo
Becca retweeted
🚨 BROKEN: Yet another Tory manifesto promise. Govt pledged to ban live animal exports, yet Ministers have just announced they're dropping the Kept Animals Bill which would have done so. This is a total betrayal of trust from the Government. The campaign isn't stopping here.
Becca retweeted
Monday evening #spawnmap update.
n = 1468, final forecast = 1539, progress =95%.
Any sightings, please spend 10 secs filling in tinyurl.com/spawnmap23
RTs amazing, thank you.
Becca retweeted
In the run-up to our #InternationalWomensDay Conference, here's what the BIAZA Board of Trustees had to say about the significance of #IWD, inclusion, and diversity 🔽
Still haven't booked for the conference? You have until Tues:
biaza.org.uk/events/detail/b…
#BIAZAIWD23 #IWD2023
Becca retweeted
This really is an extraordinary graphic. While we agonise over the impact of releasing a few Beavers back in the landscape, about 50 million non-native Pheasants are released into the environment each year with not much debate at all.
Just looking back at this paper link.springer.com/article/10… by @TimBlackburn66 and @KevinJGaston for a tutorial I'm running on Monday - this really is an extraordinary figure isn't it? 49% of Britain's bird biomass in August is pheasant.
Becca retweeted
💚 Today we celebrate #WorldWildlifeDay !
🌎 We share our home with a great variety of magnificent creatures
🐾 It is our duty to protect them
#WWD2023 #Conservation @WildlifeDay @CITES
Becca retweeted
Get a glimpse of the animal action at our NEW Conservation Evening Talk...
Join our zoo keepers for an evening of untold stories and updates on our wonderful animal collection 🦍🐒🦒🦜
📆 Monday 27 February
⏰ 6pm - 7.30pm
Get your tickets 👉 bit.ly/412Vd4K
Becca retweeted
What went right this week?
Well, the Western Monarch Butterfly population is flying high while Rhinos and Elephants are returning to the plains of Uganda after years of poaching.
Read these and other #ConservationOptimism stories at:
bit.ly/3jRxPq7
Great week ahead.
Becca retweeted
SHOCKING FACT: If you earned £40,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you would still not make as much as Shell did in profits last year
Becca retweeted
Aged 14-24 and interested in conservation and the environment? 🦋🌳
@savebutterflies would love to hear from you! Details and how to get in touch👇
Becca retweeted
We are dismayed, disappointed, and deeply concerned. UK Gov has just approved the use of a banned pesticide so powerful; a single teaspoon could kill 1.25 billion bees. This is a huge mistake. If we want to #DefendNature we must #SayNoToNeonics. 👉
wtru.st/say-no-neonics-again
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Summary of mass mortality event of Great Skuas on Foula in summer 2022 due to avian influenza.
"a decline in the order of magnitude of 60–70% in occupied territories is more likely"
👉researchgate.net/publication…
