More appropriate to early April than early September, I think, but I’ll allow this one.

Doctor who (2005) s01e07 - Kronkburgers on Satellite 5 in the opening scenes.

These look like the people to ask.

Looks like it:

with most of our woodlands, we will be hosting year-round volunteering and community events, enabling people to enjoy, learn about, and connect with nature," Tom shares. These events will offer opportunities for people to get involved in the project, whether through tree planting, wildlife monitoring, or participating in educational programs.

The link to get involved is here.

Excluding pretty much everything that I saw as a kid - when you go into basically everything blind - it would be After Hours (1985). I either hadn’t read anything about it or hadn’t been paying attention. Standing outside the cinema, I just saw that it was by Scorsese and went in.

I still think that it is one of his most under-appreciated films. And I loved the Ted Lasso homage, combining it with the Divine Comedy.

This isn’t related to the UK, so doesn’t really fit in this community: UK Nature and Environment.

As the article about the donations, linked to within this article, says:

“Of course, the company responsible should pay, but the timing and outcome of the investigation by the Environment Agency (EA) is uncertain, and we must act now to protect nature as best we can.”

I was at a long-term beaver reintroduction site earlier this year. It is official, well managed and has been going for a couple of decades or more now. This topic came up and I got the impression that they had a pretty good idea who had released some unofficially at at least one other spot in the area.

Although well managed, the fences at this site - as any other - do get damaged from time to time and there are ‘escapes’. But there are a good number of people who have been involved in the project over the years and a lot of them have very different views to the government on how releases should be handled. I think that some of the accidental ‘escapes’ had assistance - and transport.

They certainly are moving to the cities, but the studies - at least the ones that I have seen details of - have included that. They are still in decline overall.

This evening: pizza and a film - Breaking Away (1979)
Tomorrow - gardening, then off to a medieval feast at a local museum
Sunday - probably out for a hike somewhere, then a waterway bat survey in the evening

The BOU’s Records Committee maintains the official list of wild birds occurring in Great Britain.

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) - Aubrey Plaza in an engaging character piece that has hints of Eagle vs Shark among others. It’s not outstanding by any means and not among Plaza’s best, but still witty and touching.

The relevant section of this item is:

Previous experiments have shown that younger trees are able to increase their rates of CO2 absorption, but the assumption has been that more mature forests do not have the same adaptability.

Prof MacKenzie told the BBC it was important for the team to understand how older trees behave as that is the majority of the tree cover we have globally.

Eupean bison (Bison bonasus) it seems. More about them here.

There is plenty of scope for small-scale improvements - and they can be very effective. I don’t have any data to hand on exactly what would be the most effective per sq meter or anything like that, but I wouldn’t mind betting that planting flowering plants that act as a food source for insects and are in flower for as much of the year as possible would be near the top. This can be done at any scale - from pots on a balcony to a full-blown wildflower meadow instead of a lawn.[

Buglife has some info and suggestions for this.

Yes, but this is in a specific nature reserve. Good conservation management for wildlife in reserves has been shown time and again to work extremely well - and can counteract declines due to poor weather and even climate change to some extent - in those specific areas.

However, there are nowhere near enough nature reserves around to counteract the overall decline nationally or internationally. If we just stick with what we have, they will at best become ‘wildlife ghettos’. Rewilding much, much larger areas might go someway towards reversing declines, but it’s clear that we need to deal with climate change too.

Yes, and not only hedgehogs. At my workplace a couple of days ago there was a brown long-eared bat which had unfortunately drowned in a smooth dog-bowl, probably whilst trying to get a drink in the hot weather. We are now making sure that there is a stone kept in the bowl so that any wildlife can get out of the water.

Yes, I was in two minds about posting it for this reason, but decided to in the end because of that.

I used to use Connect - moved to Voyager, which I found to have more useful features, but still have it on my phone. I have just taken a look and Connect shows me the name of the server as well as the community - so I don’t know if that is an option somewhere in the settings.

However, yes, I am aware that the name of the community does appear simply as ‘nature’ in some cases. There isn’t much I can do about that, as I didn’t set it up.

Still, my original comments stand. The idea that I and everyone else should specify that each story is related to the UK - in a community that is specific to the UK - and would need to editorialise titles and content to do so (which would definitely draw negative comments) is unreasonable. And would that be sufficient for everyone? There are certainly people, for example, who are confused by entities like the UK, England, Great Britain etc and are not aware of how they relate to each other.

I usually browse by subscribed, but if I should choose to browse by all then there are always a scattering of stories that I know nothing about. I wouldn’t expect that every one of those should include a wiki guide to the subject in question. I would expect that I would need to look it up myself.

Well, it is posted in the UK Nature and Environment community on Feddit UK. I don’t know what you are using to browse with, but everything that I have used on mobile or laptop shows me which community an item is posted in at the very least, so that it was in the UK should have been reasonably clear, I would have thought.