Happy New Year from the Buglife Team and welcome to a "bug-filled" 2025! What are we working to achieve during 2025? We want to: 🦋 ensure insects, and all other invertebrates, have room to thrive; 🦗 create safe spaces for our buggy friends; and 🤎 build friendlier relationships with the small things that run the planet! 🤝Join us on our journey and help make it happen! Let us know what you've pledged to do this year for invertebrates and comment below! . . #LoveBugs #ConservationOptimism
Buglife
Non-profit Organization Management
Peterborough, England 9,957 followers
Saving the small things that run the planet
About us
Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and we are actively working to save Britain’s rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, worms to woodlice and jumping spiders to jellyfish. There are more than 40,000 invertebrate species in the UK, and many of these are under threat as never before. Invertebrates are vitally important to a healthy planet – humans and other life forms could not survive without them. The food we eat, the fish we catch, the birds we see, the flowers we smell and the hum of life we hear, simply would not exist without bugs. Invertebrates underpin life on earth and without them the world’s ecosystems would collapse.
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https://www.buglife.org.uk
External link for Buglife
- Industry
- Non-profit Organization Management
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Peterborough, England
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2002
- Specialties
- Invertebrates, Conservation, Pollinators, Habitat Management, and Freshwater
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G. 06 Allia Future Business Centre
London Road
Peterborough, England PE2 8AN, GB
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ThinqTanq. Fairbairn House
Higher Lane
Plymouth, PL1 2AN, GB
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Balallan House
24 Allan Park
Stirling, FK8 2QG, GB
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Forest Farm Road
Cardiff, Wales CF14 7JJ, GB
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Earlier in December Buglife Cymru Coal Spoil Connections Conservation Officer, Carys, was joined by the Coleg y Cymoedd Vocational Access Duke of Edinburgh Award, Silver Group and their tutor Val at project site Cwm Tips. 🤝Showing the students around part of the site Carys shared her knowledge, explaining the importance of colliery spoil habitats for nature and people. 🗑️ The students helped with some litter picking and cutting back of Cotoneaster which threatens to smother out the native wild flowers on the site. 🍪 It was a wonderful day at the tip with hot chocolate and biscuits as a treat and thank you for the students for their hard work. 🐝 There are another two sessions planned at the site and the students are going to complete a ‘coal spoil wildlife’ project during their class time. Diolch yn fawr i bawb ddaeth i siarad gyda ni am ein safleoedd sborion glo hardd a’r creaduriaid anhygoel sy’n ymgartrefu ynddynt. 💚 Thank you too to Litter Free Beddau and Tynant who kindly lent us their litter picking equipment for the day. . . 📷 Coleg y Cymoedd Vocational Access Duke of Edinburgh Award, Silver Group and their tutor Val at project site Cwm Tips ©️ Carys Romney . . #BuglifeCymru #CoalSpoilConnections Gwent Wildlife Trust SEWBReC Blaenau Gwent CBC Caerphilly County Borough Council Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
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Join us for a little festive fun between now and the early New Year, over on Facebook and Instagram, as we share Buglife's 12 Day's of Christmas! 🎄Starting tomorrow we'll introduce you to our invertebrate filled 12 Days of Christmas, sharing some beautiful "bugs", fantastic photos and some joyful fun facts. 🐝 Don't forget to buzz by each day to see who made the cut! ➡️ Our journey begins tomorrow, on the first day of Christmas (or should that be "Bugmas"?). . . #12DaysOfChristmas #MerryBugmas #JustForFun
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The Buglife Team are taking a bit of a digital break between now and New Year, so things may be a bit quieter than usual. 🎄We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our Members, donors, followers and supporters a happy festive break. "Thank you" for saving the small things that run the planet and see you again in 2025! . . #ThankYou #LoveBugs #ConservationOptimism
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You may have heard us talk a lot about Guardians of our Rivers over the last two years and as we move forwards into 2025 you'll probably hear us talking even more about Guardians of our Rivers: Next Steps. ❓But what's it all about and what does being a River Guardian actually mean? 📝 Today we're delighted to share a guest blog from Gerry Hough, volunteer catchment co-ordinator for the Guardians of our Rivers invertebrate monitoring programme for the Aberdeenshire Don. 🐟 Join Gerry as he shares his journey from fly-fishing to becoming a volunteer River Guardian. Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/gMEr4pZh . . 📷 Stonefly found on riverfly survey © Gerry Hough . . #BuglifeBlog #GooR #GooRNextSteps
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We're pleased to share that we've signed the Scientists' statement on pollutants in water; have you? 💧 Please do take a look: deadline for signatures is 1 January 2025
Calling all scientists, researchers and academics. We are pleased to share with you an invitation to sign the Scientists' statement on pollutants in water: deadline for signatures is 1 January 2025. Following the recent EEA ‘Europe's state of water 2024' report, European institutions are now in the process of updating the priority pollutants to be regulated under EU water law and we invite you to sign this statement in support of maintained ambition in the upcoming negotiations between the EU institutions on the final text. The recent EEA report ‘Europe's state of water 2024’ was a stark reminder that Europe’s freshwater and coastal ecosystems are under serious pressure. Nearly a quarter of a century after the adoption of the EU’s main water law, the Water Framework Directive (WFD), only 29% of surface waters and 77% of groundwater body area are reported to be in good chemical status. Yet, this does not give the full picture, as chemical status under the WFD is only assessed against a small fraction of the substances present in the environment and largely overlooks the effects of chemical mixtures. In short, the full picture of chemical pollution in aquatic environments is underestimated and underreported. The European institutions are now in the process of updating the priority pollutants to be regulated under EU water law, but the process is facing delays and EU Member States want to misuse this technical update of EU water pollution standards to weaken existing environmental safeguards of the WFD. We are inviting you to sign this statement in support of maintained ambition in the upcoming negotiations between the EU institutions on the final text. The statement will be open for signatures up until 1 January 2025. Please note that sign-on is restricted to scientists, researchers and academics. We invite you to share it widely within your networks. You can sign the statement via the link on the FBA website: https://lnkd.in/ebCfmES9 For more information, please see the background briefing on the webpage. #freshwaterscience #freshwaterecology #freshwaterbiology #waterquality European Environment Agency European Research Council (ERC) Buglife Natural England Natural History Museum Lancaster Environment Centre JNCC UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) SIL International Society of Limnology Freshwater Habitats Trust The Company of Biologists Science Council
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Save the Date: Light Pollution and its Impacts 💡 On 30 January 2025, the Royal Astronomical Society will hold a free one-day conference on Light Pollution and its Impacts - we'll be there, will you? 📅 Thursday 30 January 2025 🕘 09:00 - 17:00 📌 Piccadilly London // Online Find out more and reserve your place 👇 https://lnkd.in/gxfgdHRm ℹ️ This is a hybrid event with multiple sessions from invited speakers, with representation from organisations including the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dark Skies, Buglife, CPRE The countryside charity, Dark Skies Cumbria the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Dark Sky UK (IDA-UK), DarkSky International and the UK Space Agency. 📝 The official schedule for the day will be announced soon and we do hope to see you there! . . #BuglifeCampaign #LightPollution #CurtainsForLightPollution #NurtureTheNightShift
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A huge thank you to everyone who has donated to our Winter Fundraiser so far - you are amazing! ⚠️ Please do remember to share your referral link and encourage two more people to donate in order to triple your donation. Their donation can be any amount from just £1! 🥰 With your support we've currently raised £3,502.03, but only £710 of that is "matched" - so please do ask family and friends to use those referral links. Just a reminder: ❄️ By supporting our winter fundraiser you can double, or even triple your impact. 🐞 Any donation you make, via the link below, has the potential to be tripled between now and the 14 December. 👇 https://lnkd.in/efrYPhWy 1️⃣ After donating you get your own share link; 2️⃣ Share this with the people in your networks; 3️⃣ After 2 people donate via your link GiveMatch triple your donation at no additional cost to you! ❤️🔃 Our supporters are amazing and we would like to "thank you" now, for supporting our work and our appeal in any way you can; whether that's by making a donation, liking or sharing our post. It all helps! . . 📷 Damselfly © ROverhate . . #WinterFundraiser #LoveBugs #CharityTuesday
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Join us in celebrating International Volunteer Day 2024! 🌍 Started by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985, it is a day where volunteers are acknowledged and the spirit of volunteering is promoted at local, national and international levels. 🦋 Here at Buglife, volunteers really are the charities back-bone; from our board of Trustees (who are actually meeting today), right through to the Citizen Scientists helping to collect data for a wide array of projects, both within Buglife and beyond. 🐝 Buglife Members will get a fantastic insight into exactly what volunteering means to Buglife and bugs in the latest edition of The Buzz; which is currently with the printer and should be flitting its way to you imminently! ⏱ If you've ever given your time freely; volunteered for one of our projects, taken part in Citizen Science, are or have been a Trustee or are on the path to becoming a volunteer: thank you! ❔Did you know? In the UK alone it’s estimated that more than 2 billion hours are spent volunteering each year! 🐞 Do you volunteer already? Let us know what you've been up to! . . 📷 Ruth Quiqley, Jo Loman, Alice Parfitt, Carys Romney, John Walters, Emily Hughes, Rebecca Lewis, Riverfly on the Esk . . #InternationalVolunteerDay #CitizenScience #LoveBugs #ThankYou
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