Nerds, let's start by saying yes, Ryan & Nadia's nature highlights are becoming a bit desperate so why not get in touch on email ([email protected]) or DM on Instagram (link below) so we can share YOUR nature highlight from the week!

Onto Week 30 of Nature News, we start with a new way to deter those herring gulls from your chips & move on to an in-depth discussion about Labour's plan to build a lot of new homes but without looking after nature. Finishing with a new report on an ocean bacteria that can digest PET plastic!

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Housing & Nature  / Gulls / Bacteria

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Nerds Nature News is on hold this week while we step in to release a "round the table" chat recorded live at Global Birdfair back in July of this year.

Nadia & Ryan were joined by conservationists Ajay Tegala & Ezz Miles to talk about the art (yes, we are using the word art) of communicating conservation in 2025. From how it's changed to what needs to change.

Follow our guests: Ezz Miles / Ajay Tegala

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Nerds, Week 29 of Nature News is all over the place this week starting with Bearded vultures with a potential foot fetish & the rediscovery of the White knuckled wolf spider on the Isle of Wight to Greenpeace's warning over deep sea mining for metals & some good news with green every overtaking fossil fuel globally.

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Old Shoe / Wolf Spider / Deep Sea Mining / Green Energy

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To follow the hosts of the show, Ryan & Nadia, follow them at @mrryanjdalton & @buteblackbird 

On this week's nature news, Nadia & Ryan have a big natter about COP30 in Belem, Brazil after Greenpeace report on a big oil extraction from The Amazon rainforest just weeks before the event. We are then joined by the wonderful Mary Colwell to give a quick update on the UK's Natural History GCSE!

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Oil Extraction in The Amazon / Pakayaku Protect Forest 

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On this weeks nature news Nadia kicks off with a potentially trailblazing bill from Scottish Parliament to criminalise actions that are defined as ecocide. Ryan shares an up beat story about re-wriggling a chalk stream in Hertfordshire before ending on some thoughts & feelings about the recent global temperatures causing natural tipping points.

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Ecocide / Rewiggling / Tipping Points

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Nerds, week 26 of Nature News is here & from dogs scenting Orca scat to help with Killer whale conservation to good news for Green turtles AND The Woodland Trust's Tree Of The Year, it's one heck of a half hour for you!

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Dogs & Orcas / Green Turtles / TotY

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Nerds be honest, would it really surprise you to learn our first news story this week was about animals getting drunk? No, I didn't think so. SCIENCE.

Followed up but a new discovery about a species of dogbane plant at a botanical gardens in Japan then some good news about a hefty fine on a fossil fuel company, we love to see it.

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Drunk Animals / Dogbane Do What 

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This week Ryan & Nadia responsibly crack open a beer as they learn how dry it has actually been in England so far in 2025 & what that means for autumn & winter. Then we are ducking back into 1990s science & learning about the ozone layer & how that old issue got resolved.

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Dry England / Ozone Layer / Feral Honey Bees!

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Nerds, Into The Wild is back!

We are back with weekly Nature News after our summer off & we are jumping straight into some juicy wildlife stories for you along with some exciting things for Into The Wild!

On week 23 we have reintroduction stories, policy updates from deep peat burning & 30 by 30, tourism booms in Nepal AND Koala chlamydial (yeah, Ryan didn't see the last one coming either).

Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Water Voles / Deep Peat Burning / Tourism Boom in Nepal / 30 x 30 / Koala's

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Although we are off resting for 6 weeks, we couldn't quite leave you nerds with no conservation chat could we?

4 years after connecting with Kate on socials, we finally got a time to have a chat & record an episode. Kate is a researcher & fantastic science communicator (no awards given for the nerds who guess what we speak about here). From what conservation means to Kate to discussing the problems with the rising content both on socials & documentaries with the "up close & personal" with dangerous animals, this chat was insightful & an absolute joy.

Show notes: Links to all socials: Kate Sheridan / Ollie Clark / Brooke Pyke

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To follow the hosts of the show, Ryan & Nadia, follow them at @mrryanjdalton & @buteblackbird