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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

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

Help save more of the small things that run the planet this #GivingTuesday!  ❄️ 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! . . 📷 Distinguished Jumping Spider (Attulus distinguendus) © Roman Willi . . #WinterFundraiser #LoveBugs

Today, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024, we’re celebrating the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in every part of society. 🤔 Did you know that around 1.3 billion people (17% of the global population) live with a disability? With such a significant portion of our world affected, it’s time we all commit to making life, including the digital world, more inclusive! ℹ️ Recite Me is just one of the tools available to us and has been an important element of our website for some time now, offering assistive technology across our online portal. Explore the range of styling, reading and language tools today (head to the top of our web pages and click on "Accessibility/Language/Cymraeg" 👇 https://lnkd.in/eAE2zN5N . . #BugsAreAmazing #IDPD #Inclusion #Accessibility #AssitiveTechnology 

To continue our St Andrew's Day celebrations we're taking a closer look at one of our Scottish B-Lines projects. 📝 Join Buglife Scotland’s Aberdeen B-Lines Conservation Officer, Ruth, in her blog originally published by Scottish Pollinators in September 2024: Engaging Communities in Aberdeen B-Lines. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eh3NxM34 . . 📷PoM Scheme Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) counts at Westfield Park, Aberdeen ©️ Ruth Quigley . . #StAndrewsDay #Scotland #BuglifeScotland #AberdeenBLines

To all who call Scotland home & everyone around the world who holds it dear, Happy St Andrews Day! 👏 What better day to celebrate our smaller inhabitants & the conservation work taking place across Scotland to conserve & protect them? 🌼Scotland supports a diverse variety of habitats from montane, to vegetated shingle, to grassland. These habitats are home to a number of unique species of invertebrate, many of which rely on Scotland as their stronghold in the UK & even globally! Fantastically named species such as   🐝 Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola)  🪱 Medicinal Leech (Hirudo medicinalis)  🦋 Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene) &   🕷️ Bog Sun-jumper Spider (Heliophanus dampfi) All call Scotland home... 🐝 We work with partners, local communities & businesses to raise awareness of Scotland's special habitats & species Projects like Aberdeen B-Lines, focus on combating the decline of pollinating insects 👇 https://lnkd.in/efWxw2_X 🪰Guardians of our Rivers is recruiting, supporting & training local people who would like to get involved in monitoring the health of their local river. Surveying for river invertebrates, sharing stories, identifying species & more  👇 https://lnkd.in/eEUuzmnu 🦋 Whilst Species on the Edge, our Scottish multi-partner project, brings together eight conservation organisations in an ambitious programme of work across Scotland, raising awareness of & championing a range of specialist species; sharing knowledge, conducting surveys, recruiting & training Citizen Scientists, facilitating workshops & so much more. All to protect & conserve some of Scotland's smallest inhabitants. Find out more about our work in Scotland  👇 https://lnkd.in/ext-jaQK . . 📷 Harebell in grassland Ben Lawers NNR & Scabious North Third Reservoir, Stirling © Claire Pumfrey / Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola) © Steven Falk / Medicinal Leech (Hirudo medicinalis) © Roger Key / Small Pearl-bordered Fritillaries (Boloria selene) © Scott Shanks / Bog Sun-jumper Spider (Heliophanus dampfi) © Lorne Gill / Lowland Raised Bog © Buglife . . #StAndrewsDay #Scotland #BuglifeScotland #AberdeenBLines #SotE #GoOR

Buglife Scotland Species on the Edge Conservation Officer, Sally, recently joined Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's, Dr Helen Taylor on NatureScot's Make Space for Nature podcast. 🗣️ Joining Nature Scot's Kirstin and Tim to discuss the fascinating world of the Medicinal Leech (Hirudo medicinalis). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Learn about the ground breaking success in breeding these remarkable and often misunderstood creatures, and why protecting Scotland's invertebrates is crucial for our ecosystem. 👂Have a listen, or listen again (listening time 00:34:33) 👇 https://lnkd.in/euRbW8G9 . . 📷 Medicinal Leech (Hirudo medicinalis) © Neil Phillips . . #SotE #BuglifeScotland #SpeciesRecovery

Did you watch the Cabinet Secretary, Huw Irranca-Davies, give a statement to the Senedd yesterday? 🗣️ If you missed it and would like to catch up you can do so here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJQGjn-n ℹ️ Start time: 15:42 ➡️ Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Progress on the Sustainable Farming Scheme - design through collaboration . . #BuglifeCymru

Looking for something to do this week? 🦞 Why not join Buglife Crayfish Conservation Officer, Liz, and Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust's, David, to find out more about the White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), the Midland's Crayfish Project and the impacts of pollution in our waterways? 🗓️ Thursday 28 November 🕙 19:00 - 21:00 📌 Lower Gornal Royal British Legion, Dudley ℹ️ This event is hosted by The Ramblers and Friends of Cotwall End Valley, to find out more information and to book your place please visit their Eventbrite page 👇 https://lnkd.in/e6s95RVE . . #MidlandsCrayfishPartnership #SpeciesRecovery