Loves parrots, ultrasound, and the natural world, especially oceanic fauna and flora, oh, and a strong sense of fairness and natural justice! Views are my own.
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We had so much fun filming 'everything you wanted to know about ultrasound, but were afraid to ask' with plenty of fun facts about #ultrasound in the animal kingdom and medicine. @UniLeedsEngage #BeCurious20 and #BeCurious22
youtu.be/Cmgi2QYTDdw
Remember when you get home from #BeCurious22 you can watch our YouTube video version from 2020 @LeedsBRC everything you ever wanted to know about ultrasound!
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This is Skye. He was lured out of Kruger National Park in South Africa a few weeks ago and illegally killed by JARED WHITWORTH from Kentucky during a safari hunt. Skye’s life was worth more than the amusement of a hunter. It’s time to #BanTrophyHunting once and for all!
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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre @guardian
“Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone”
Yet again our Natural world pays the price for humankind’s commercial drive, this time to continue expansion of the booming artificial intelligence & data industry
Will we ever stop plundering our beautiful planets natural resources?
theguardian.com/environment/…
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53 orangutans have now been rescued from forests devastated by fires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the scale of destruction is horrifying.
More than 48,500 hectares have burned this year. Orangutans are being found starving, injured and desperately searching for food in forests that have been destroyed.
These are critically endangered animals losing the very habitat they depend on to survive. How much wildlife must suffer before protecting forests becomes a priority rather than an afterthought?
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This situation stayed heavy on our hearts for days.
A mother crow had been caught in an illegal leg trap, and her leg was badly injured. Letting her go like that would have meant certain death. We could tell she had been caring for babies recently, but we had no idea where they were.
For several days, animal control officers searched everywhere for her chicks, but they couldn’t find them.
At the same time, we were looking after a baby crow that had been orphaned in a completely different area. Holding onto a small hope, we decided to bring the two together.
As soon as the injured mother saw the baby, she walked straight to him. She gently held him with her beak, pulled him close, and then placed herself in front of him, protecting him from the people watching. She was a mother who had lost her babies, and he was a baby who had lost his mother.
The very next day, against all expectations, her babies were finally found.
She raised the orphan along with her own chicks at the rescue while her leg healed. When the time came, they were all released together—one large, happy family.
This will always be one of our most cherished rescue stories.
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Nine year old Dylan Cope died from sepsis. His GP had suspected appendicitis and sent him to hospital.
A paediatric nurse practitioner assessed him in A&E without reading the GP’s referral. His abdominal pain was attributed to flu and he was discharged without a documented examination by a doctor.
The coroner concluded that his death could have been avoided.
Dylan’s family have suffered an unimaginable loss. As a doctor working in general practice, what stands out to me is that his GP had recognised the possibility of appendicitis and referred him for further assessment. That concern needed to be heard and acted on.
When we refer a patient with a suspected serious illness, we need to know that the concern prompting that referral will be properly assessed. A different diagnosis may emerge, but the referral’s findings must be considered before a patient is sent home.
Dylan’s father told the inquest that he believed the practitioner assessing his son was a doctor. He also repeatedly raised concerns about appendicitis. Families deserve clarity about who is treating their child and to have their concerns heard.
This case raises serious questions about how referrals are handled and when an examination by a doctor must take place. Employers must ensure that supervision arrangements translate into the assessment a patient actually needs.
There is also a wider discussion about advanced practitioner roles. The BMA recognises their valuable contribution within healthcare teams. It calls for nationally agreed limits of practice and clear supervision requirements, with advanced practitioners supporting medical teams rather than replacing doctors on clinical rotas. Its position is that they should not independently diagnose or manage patients whose underlying condition has not yet been established.
I support those safeguards. Clear responsibilities protect patients and support staff to practise safely.
Dylan’s parents are asking for children referred to A&E by a GP with suspected serious illness to receive a documented, face to face examination by a senior doctor before discharge.
That is a call we should take seriously. They should not have had to lose their son to ask for it.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF.
In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths.
That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower.
What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all.
Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing.
Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession.
No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency.
During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release.
The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy.
He hasn't.
Sources: @guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice
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🦡 Happy National Badger Day
Badgers are among the UK's most iconic native animals. Yet despite their protected status, they continue to face serious threats, from wildlife crime to road deaths & habitat loss.
This footage reminds us why protecting badgers is so important. 💚
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Not so long ago, Kenya was teeming with black rhinos. That all changed when global demand for their horn fuelled a catastrophic wave of poaching, which destroyed 98% of the population. The once-ubiquitous symbols of Kenya’s wilderness had been nearly poached to extinction.
Today, Kenya’s black rhinos are the face of a remarkable comeback story. Despite devastating losses, populations are steadily climbing back from the brink.
We are proud to play a role in that comeback story.
Working with the Kenya Wildlife Service and field partners, we support black rhino recovery through aerial operations, anti-poaching patrols, veterinary care, orphan rescues, and long-term conservation initiatives.
Read more about our rhino conservation work: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n…
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You can see the exact moment fear leaves and love takes its place. No words, just a soft hand and a heart that chose kindness. 🥹💛
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The deepest betrayal doesn't come from an enemy; it comes from the person you trusted to protect you.Abandoning a dog on a highway requires a specific kind of cold, calculated cruelty. You have to pack the car, put the dog in, drive to a desolate place, open the door, and look into those trusting eyes knowing you are about to sentence them to starvation or death under a truck. You drive away looking in the rearview mirror, while they sit there, completely confused, guarding the last spot they saw you. It is a level of cowardice that no other species on Earth exhibits.If you can dissolve a bond of unconditional love just because life got complicated, you haven't just failed as an owner—you’ve failed as a human being. How do we fix a society that treats living souls like roadside trash? 👇
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Exceptionally heavy El Niño rains have triggered millions of dormant seeds beneath the soil, transforming vast stretches of one of the world’s driest regions into a spectacular carpet of flowers. 🌸🌸🌸
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has been dramatically transformed following heavy rainfall in northern Chile. Areas that are typically barren and parched are now covered in vibrant violet and white blossoms, a rare natural phenomenon known as the “flowering desert.”🏵️🏵️🏵️
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A security camera captured two Belgian Malinois puppies playing while their owner wasn't home
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A tiny newborn elephant was swept away from its mother while trying to cross the swollen Teesta River in India.
Fishermen spotted its trunk above the water and chased it for nearly 4 km through the powerful current before pulling the exhausted calf to safety.
Then, after a two-hour search, they found its mother. She rushed to her baby, took it back and began nursing it❤️
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Enough is enough
These awesome rare birds that are just clinging on as species are being shot by thugs who get a thrill out of killing these birds
Boycott Malta now until their Govt mobilizes and stops this evil
A rare and highly protected Black Stork was shot down on Tuesday just outside Buskett, as it was being filmed by birdwatchers.
This is the reality migrating birds face in Malta.
birdlifemalta.org/2026/09/hi…
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Lady Justice Thirlwall gave a statement about the Inquiry Report upon publication. Watch it now: youtu.be/1Snqa-EBDJ4
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Abandoned’ dolphins have been seen gnawing at the concrete walls of their enclosure and floating aimlessly at a closed water park.
Veeleaf, an animal rights group in Mexico, filmed the aquarium in Cancún, Quintana Roo, on September 2.
The footage, seen by Metro, is the latest example of what Veeleaf alleges are the ‘horrific conditions’ the pod has faced since the park closed in 2025.
Campaigners claim the nine Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins are fed just once a day and receive little attention from caretakers, called enrichment. Officials have long denied this.
‘We may never fully understand the fear, confusion and inner turmoil of an individual denied freedom for that long,’ Paola Ibarra, co-founder of Veeleaf, told Metro.
Some of them once swam in the waters of the Solomon Islands before they were captured in 2003 and transported 8,000 miles to a dolphinarium operated by Dolphin Discovery, which runs swim-with-dolphin experiences.
The site was part of Ventura Park, which announced the ‘indefinite closure’ of its operations for maintenance in January 2025.
The dolphins, however, remained at the site. PROFEPA, Mexico’s environmental protection agency, seized the dolphins in October 2025.
However, it said it would not be safe to move the dolphins and insisted they hadn’t been forgotten.
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Tougher sanctions on senior managers demanded by Letby inquiry ift.tt/hFJwajG
