For our seabirds' sake, please do not visit Isle of Muck Nature Reserve! Earlier this week our habitat monitoring cameras picked up someone on Isle of Muck with their dog. We want to take this chance to remind everyone why the nature reserve is not open to visitors. (1/5)

Join us this Saturday to learn more about these misunderstood pollinators, and meet some of the ones that call Lagan Meadows home! For more information and to sign up for this free event, visit our website: wildbelfast.org/events-1/moth-…

And we're off! Our #MakingSpaceforNature conference opens with Principal Planning Officer Dermot O'Kane who's outlining Belfast's vision for a resurgent city and outlining measures the LDP will take inc. next steps to review SLNCIs but need for plan to balance Belfasts needs.

Now up it's RSPB NI conservation officer Dakota 🌿 talking about urban biodiversity and some of the concrete actions and partnerships that planning and development can deliver for endangered wildlife. #MakingSpaceforNature

🚨Next event klaxon! 🚨 We're really looking forward to this one with the wonderful Bees & Wasps of Ireland Come along to find out more about the c. 100 bee species and their struggle to survive. Book here: wildbelfast.org/events-1/bees-… #Belfast2024

To catch a bee, you have to think like a bee 🐝

The microWild sand pit is clad and awaiting the sand. Everything has been donated so far and it was put together meticulously by my good friend Mark. A trojan worker without whom I'd be lost.

Some cool finds at a bioblitz with QUB Marine Biology and Zoology Society in Omagh 1) Orange legged furrow bee (Halictus rubicundus) 2)Micropterix aureatella? 3) Dactylorhiza sp. 4) Seen my first ever siskin and got to ring my first bird ever! Thanks so much to everyone who came and helped!

Amazing overnight trip and BioBlitz at Cottage Farm nature reserve. Thank you to Peter Archdale for hosting, to @cedarnmni for helping with data collection and processing and to our members! Such an incredible array of wildlife in the area and some brilliant sightings made.

Interesting what's considered outrageous (and what's not)

Join us in exploring how urban heritage, people and nature interweave in these guided walks with Steven Farquhar Check out the full program of activities for the Brink! Summer Solstice Weekend: playthinkbrink.com/blog/brink-sum…

The passion in Parliament Square right now is ELECTRIC.    People from all walks of life, united by nature.    Politicians, it’s time to wake up. Nature must be made a priority. #RestoreNatureNow

Tomorrow! Join us in the Crescent Arts Centre to learn all about conservation of these aerial acrobats that grace our skies! Sign up here wildbelfast.org/events-1/swift…

Had a great time with Rebekah Bajko 🪼🦪🦦 on the Gobbins today! Loads of guillemots, kittiwakes, fulmar, cormorants and even a few puffins!

We've been researching local party manifestos to see how they're proposing to protect you by preventing the #biodiversitycrisis & combating the #climateemergency. There's good, there's bad.... and there's ugly. We can't tell you which is which, but here they are. #GE24

Some happy news: I’ve been appointed as Lecturer in Climate Policy, Politics & Sustainability with HAPP at Queen's School of Biological Sciences in Queen's University Belfast 🎓 This exciting new cross-Faculty position will help advance #interdisciplinary #research #teaching for #ClimateAction #Sustainability 🌎💚

☆ 365 days of Wild Belfast in 90 sec ☆ We have come a long way in a only two years and we cannot wait for the next year to continue working with you on making Belfast a wilder, more #biodiverse city. Conservation starts with community, this is your story.

I've loved visiting different spots for survey work this summer, but it's always nice to get back to your own 'patch' - which, for me, is Lagan Meadows! My first time back in quite a while yesterday, and had this gorgeous Common Darter come say hello!

Join us at the Albert Bridge on Saturday the 18th of January to watch and celebrate the Starling murmuration there. Book a free ticket on our website — the link is in our bio.