Well, this should make my ID courses easier... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The modelling framework it describes supports the production of Official Statistics on pollinating insect trends, published "in Development" for the first time this year by @jncc.bsky.social & UKCEH.

Read more about the approach in a new blog post in The Applied Ecologist: tinyurl.com/3vvfv93k

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🐝 🪰 How can we track change across the UK's insect pollinators? A new paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social outlines how we're generating robust metrics to monitor pollinator trends at a national scale.

Another key milestone for PoMS!

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

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What a farce. As farmers fail to access funds to support sustainable farming, this will undoubtedly mean valuable wildlife habitat (recently created or much older) will be destroyed, as farmers feel they have no option but to intensify their farming systems.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...