Helen Taylor
@HelenTaylorCG
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Conservation field scientist and geneticist, outdoors adventurer, and (currently) pine hoverfly preserver. Conservation programme manager @RZSS, but views mine.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2015
One of Scotland's rarest invertebrates, the medicinal leech, has been found in Dumfries and Galloway for the 1st time! The leech has been confirmed to be in 3 ponds on the Solway coast by @Buzz_dont_tweet as part of the Species on the Edge programme. https://t.co/xjPsv59MTa
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To save nature, we're standing up for overlooked species 🙌 Our charity's new conservation breeding for release programme will help secure a future for the fascinating and threatened medicinal leech. Discover more 👉 https://t.co/O8yU9OJKvQ
@BuglifeScotland @SpeciesEdge
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Our newest conservation project might not be to everyone's taste, but trust me...they grow on you. 😂 Big thanks to Severin for bringing our love of leeches and many other wee beasties to the masses. 😊
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So incredibly proud of the whole team for this achievement. Great to bring some more attention to an awesome wee species and am really excited to see what the next phase of our work with pine hoverflies will bring. Onwards, team pine hoverfly! 😊🪰
Last night the pine hoverfly steering group won the @NatureofScot Innovation Award, recognising the huge amount of work we and our partners have put into saving this critically endangered species 💪
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Great to see this paper out. I played a small part in it as a co-author, but it was heroically driven from the start and across the finish line by @LMSchiebelhut.
Out in MER! New #ConGen review offers guidance in conservation genomics and a decision tree for choosing the right molecular marker for your study. @WileyEcoEvo Read more: https://t.co/refzcd0SfA 1/3
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A fantastic story being told next by Dr Helen Taylor of the @rzss about the Pine Hoverfly breeding & reintroduction in the Cairngorms #DipteristsDay2023 @DipteristsForum
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Absolute privilege to be invited to speak at this meeting on behalf of my team at @rzss and listen to all other fascinating work going on thanks to the extremely dedicated folks of the @DipteristsForum and the #MallochSociety. Flies FTW! 😊🪰
Listening to @HelenTaylorCG discuss the Pine Hoverfly breeding & reintroduction program. I had the great pleasure of seeing this in person a couple of years back!!! Its changed a bit thanks to ongoing research by the #HoverflySteeringGroup
#DipteristsDay2023 @DipteristsForum
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For fans of flies... 🪰🦟 On Saturday 18th November, we're co-hosting the next Dipterists Day with @DipteristsForum & the #MallochSociety! Join us in-person or online for a great day of talks (plus collections access on Friday 17th): https://t.co/VFdXNEr1tG
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It's great to see the importance of species conservation recognised by funders! We are proud to support the goals of the #ConventionOnBiodiversity alongside our partners and especially proud to do so for often overlooked, but extremely important species like invertebrates 👇
💚 Projects across Scotland that save threatened species, restore flower meadows and reduce flooding have been awarded a share of £4 million from the Scottish Government's #NatureRestorationFund. Read the story: https://t.co/A5zWgeshCx
@ScotGovNetZero @rzss @LockettRichard
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#ConservationJob alert! I'm looking for a conservation manager to work with my awesome team at @HighlandWPark on native invertebrate conservation breeding and onsite biodiversity work. Sound like you? Apply here by Monday 16th: https://t.co/xpo5flXUTM
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Have you spotted our teams with their eyes to the ground at @HighlandWPark? We've been on the lookout for rare small scabious mining bees! These surveys are an important part of our work to boost native biodiversity at our sites and reverse species declines 🐝💚
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Huge step forward for dark bordered beauty conservation! I couldn't be prouder of my team and their hard work on this species alongside all our partners at @RareInverts6. We're that bit closer to moving this species away from extinction and towards recovery. 😊
MAJOR moth news! Adult dark bordered beauty moths have been found at a @RareInverts6 release site. This shows caterpillars released from our breeding programme are surviving into adulthood - an exciting step toward securing a future for the species 💚 👉 https://t.co/pBoJfhLFiG
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Exciting news as the first adult Dark Bordered Beauty moths have been discovered where their caterpillars were released in the Cairngorms! Part of the @rareinverts6 partnership project to establish new populations of this threatened species in Scotland. https://t.co/vJyjqTOmb8
theguardian.com
Discovery of dark bordered beauty males where caterpillars were released raises hopes species can be revived
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Dark bordered beauty moths have been given a new chance with a conservation effort https://t.co/pnbmgozf9Y
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk
Dark bordered beauty moths have been given a new chance with a conservation effort
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160 dark bordered beauty caterpillars were released into a specially selected site in the Cairngorms National Park https://t.co/1KkiYgdXQn
heraldscotland.com
Zoologists hope the species will help boost biodiversity in the area.
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Fantastic to be part of this project with all of our partners. Can’t wait to see how these little pioneers do for their species. Stay tuned for news from the conservation breeding programme at @HighlandWPark too! 🐛
MamMOTH milestone for rare insect 🐛 160 dark bordered beauty moth caterpillars have been released into the Cairngorms National Park as part of our work with @RareInverts6! Find out more 👉 https://t.co/UfgUE3ytlM
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Big thanks to @BBCOutofDoors’ Rachel Stewart for giving the pond mud snails some love this weekend. Have a listen to find out why we’re obsessed with these little-known mini molluscs and what the team at @rzss is doing to give the species a more secure future. 🐌
Did you catch us on @BBCOutofDoors yesterday? Our very own Dr Helen Taylor and Kasia Ruta spoke to Rachel Stewart about our pond mud snail programme, which recently reached a major milestone 🐌 Catch up on @BBCSounds now (1:02:56-1:10:20) 👉 https://t.co/J9Im6hXiwN
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An incredible amount of hard work by an amazing group of people has led to this point. Fantastic to see this important step towards wildcats being brought back to Scotland. Go team! 😸🥳
🎉 WILDCATS HAVE BEEN RELEASED 🎉 We have begun releasing this critically endangered species into the Cairngorms National Park 🐾 This is an exciting moment for the partnership and a step forward for the restoration of the wildcat in Scotland 👉 https://t.co/4QnMIOd0gn
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Working on a species we don't know much about can be challenging, but it can also be awesome when we get to see things that no one has ever seen before! 🤓😃 A great example of why partnerships are so key in #conservation. Thanks for helping us bring this to life, @CNPnature!
World first alert 🚨 Using nest cameras, our team has filmed a pine hoverfly in our breeding programme emerging from its pupal case! These cameras generously funded by @CNPnature will be used to help us better understand the threatened insects in our care 🪰🦋🐛
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Super proud of our @rzss #conservation team at @HighlandWPark who are doing some painstaking work looking after the cutest wee caterpillars around. Dark bordered beauty moths are restricted to just 3 sites in Britain. I'm stoked that we get to help with trying to improve this.
Fancy raising 400 babies, all small enough to be lost at any minute? 😬 The dark bordered beauty moth caterpillars in our conservation breeding programme are so wee they have to be moved with teeny paint brushes! But the baby boom is great news for this threatened species 🐛💚
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