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danidarkskies.bsky.social
Defender of Darkness 🌌 Author of All Through the Night 📚 Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉 Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊 Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌 Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
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Happy International Dark Sky Week! 🌌 Want to know how you can save the world by stopping light pollution? Then you MUST grab a copy of my book! Learn how you can be the solution to light pollution and save life on earth as we know it ❤️ Available throughout Europe, US, Canada and Australia 🌎✨💡

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Himalayan balsam is growing along rivers in North Wales! Once established it can do substantial damage to our riverbanks and the species that depend upon them. You can help! Find out more about how to help us rid our riverbanks of #HimalyanBalsam www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/living-...

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Tawny Owls have moved into the grounds of this Eryri hotel after our retrofitting project to turn the hotel from a light polluter to a Dark Sky Friendly one! 🦉 It brings me so much joy to see wildlife reclaim spaces so quickly with a few simple changes to lighting 💡 @darkskyintl.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Happy St George's Day! England's national day, when we celebrate our patron saint, a Turkish officer in the Roman army who died in Palestine and never visited Britain. And, he didn't kill a dragon.

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Happy Earth Day to you all! And on International Dark Sky Week too 🌎✨ As the world seems completely unhinged currently, it can be easy to think, why bother? But remember, there’s power in the small things, the every day actions. The little acts of resistance to refuse to go down without a fight 🥊

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Work: ‘Why were you late this morning?’ Me: ‘Does owning a Corgi count as an excuse?’ Don’t believe that they are dogs. They are in fact small despots that demand you fulfil their each and every whim including walks that last as long as they deem suitable.

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'Curlew' - solid bronze sculpture by Richard Smith For #WorldCurlewDay #art #birds #CURLEWS

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We have just hit G4 which signifies a very strong auroral activity! Anyone in the U.K. get out and look north IMMEDIATELY if you have any sort of view of the sky, between clouds even!

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I mean, we all know Cymru has the best night skies but it’s always nice to see them recognised ✨

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When I woke up today I didn’t realise I would achieve my long standing life goal of having a BBC Radio 1 shout out on the Greg James show. Never, in a million years, did I think it would be a shout out by the Welsh Space Hun and Icon @carolvorders.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

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'Nature isn’t a “nice to have”, it’s all we have.' BES member Prof @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social explains how part 3 the planning & infrastructure bill threatens both nature & delivery

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If anyone has clear skies to the north, tonight is the night to wrap up and get out! As we have a step by auroral activity and it is now dark enough until around 1am when a big moon rises 🌝 Get out and look up if you can ✨

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Just 5 days to go until International Dark Sky Week! ✨ Make sure you’re following @darkskyintl.bsky.social to learn all about what we can each do to be the solution to light pollution 💡

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A coronal mass ejection is en route from the Sun! This footage from GONG reveals two filaments of plasma erupting on the weekend, the latter of which is predicted to reach Earth tomorrow afternoon/evening. A strong geomagnetic storm (and lower-latitude aurora) is possible.

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Did you know that Ynys Môn held a special secret that saved Japanese Sushi from forever being lost? In Japan, April 14th celebrates their ‘Mother of the Sea’, a female scientist called Kathleen Drew Baker, who defied societal norms of her time saving Sushi as we know it in the process 🇯🇵🍣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Light pollution can confuse monarchs, disrupting their internal clock and navigation on their remarkable journey from Canada to Mexico. Artificial light can even cause them to take flight at night, wasting precious energy. Visit darksky.org/news/monarch... to learn more! 🦋✨

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Walking into BST ☀️ The winter constellations are well and truly slipping away from us now as the darkness recedes to reveal the lengthening light as the Earth turns her face to the summer months

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