Rebecca Hughes

@LochrieEsther @Kernowmad @Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones This is when 'Is My River Fit To Play In' really comes in useful experience.arcgis.com/experience/e83…

@Kernowmad @Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones Yes. It’s one long tunnel with no other feeds. You can see where the water goes in from the pool just behind the crazy golf.

A couple of Dorset stiles. A dedication on the first one, or repurposed gravestone? Cow daring me to cross the other. I dared. @lak

@StevenFalk1 I saw my first #beefly today, hurrah! But I can't identify it. I thought it my might be Heath Bee Fly but it was in my garden in Cornwall. Can you help me? Sorry for the terrible phone pics...

@CarolineLucas @nickhayesillus1 To be fair quite a lot of the time it is visitors burning moorland with bbqs and cigarettes and arson and litter...

As @nickhayesillus1 says, it’s not swimmers poisoning our rivers or ramblers burning moorland. It's water firms dumping sewage, landowners burning peat & Govt failing to help farmers adopt agroecological farming. We must enable public to be guardians of nature, not its destroyers

@CBromley8 @Tory4A @LukePollard Similar to the street trees in Sheffield, some genuinely had to be removed, but other iconic and veteran trees could have been retained with more skilled maintenance and investment, which would have benefited residents. The chainsaw is wielded too easily.

@CBromley8 @Tory4A @LukePollard It's more complicated than being represented. There's an awful lot of work gone into both sides, it's not an easy answer - have a look at strawplymouth.com

Overnight Plymouth’s Conservative council chopped down nearly 100 trees in the city centre. It’s a scene of environmental devastation and utter council vandalism. I’m appalled at the actions of the Tory Council. Sad day for our city. #plymouth #ArmadaWay

@EnvAgencySW concerned by this foam on the #riverfowey at Caffa Mill this morning; reported to hotline

@AmyJaneBeer @Sarah111well @jm0ses @EveryonesStars @nickhayesillus1 @guyshrubsole @RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam The hard-to-reach don't need access to priority habitats & folksy teachings. They need safe outdoor spaces. Admittedly I am a grumpy oldish hypocrite whose increasing eco-anxiety is really only alleviated by time out in nature, so I do recognise your point.

@AmyJaneBeer @Sarah111well @jm0ses @EveryonesStars @nickhayesillus1 @guyshrubsole @RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam For example, nature-deprived young people in Plymouth: we should focus on engaging them more with nature on their doorstep, like Saltram, Mt Edgcumbe, Central Park, the lido, rather than fretting about the handful who will keep wild camping anyway. We've got our priorities wrong.

@AmyJaneBeer @Sarah111well @jm0ses @EveryonesStars @nickhayesillus1 @guyshrubsole @RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam I've seen first-hand the damage caused by fires, tree felling, dead wood clearing, erosion, noise, litter, pollution, harassment leading to abandonment of eggs & pups, shooting and more. I'm not a huge fan of people any more.

@AmyJaneBeer @Sarah111well @jm0ses @EveryonesStars @nickhayesillus1 @guyshrubsole @RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam We need to bring nature into our towns and cities, I agree to connect with people so they value & cherish it, but also to make our urban areas more resilient to future challenges and better for wildlife. THAT is where our efforts should be going.

@AmyJaneBeer @Sarah111well @jm0ses @EveryonesStars @nickhayesillus1 @guyshrubsole @RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam After twenty-plus years working in nature conservation in various roles, I'm definitely in the camp of bring nature to people, and leave the wilds to the wildlife, in the main. Managed & controlled access is my preferred way forward! Bad of me I know.

@AmyJaneBeer @Sarah111well @jm0ses @EveryonesStars @nickhayesillus1 @guyshrubsole @RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam But human disturbance is definitely one of the factors particularly in edge habitats like moorlands, rivers, coastlines, open woodland, scattered tree & scrub - and brings huge fire risk too. I don't believe we deserve a right to roam.

@georgiewildbray @tommlancaster This is the classic grey area of MT when it's not clear if the bullet points mean *and* or *or*. So frustrating when this leads to confusion and too high thresholds for delivery (WHY does a box need to meet all three criteria?!) but unlikely to be a workaround on the IT system.

@tommlancaster So this is the large wildlife box... I took these three options (in the top) as that you had to satisfy one of, and we have all around habitat. I was told I couldn't do it because I didn't have HS1 or HS8 in (which are farm building options I tried to argue it and didn't work

Applying for countryside stewardship and wanting to put a barn owl box on a field boundary between two grass margins this has been declined as I have to put it on a barn!? I know it's a BARN owl, but they did actually originally evolve to live in tree holes, not barns...

From Whitehouse area looking back towards Town Quay @FoweyHarbour @LoveFowey ?

@NCanham @ahistoryinart WOW This is basically what I think my life is.

@ahistoryinart @becclestown

Fowey Harbour, Cornwall.' (1887) Frank Brangwyn was among the new generation of artists who painted radically different coastal pictures in Britain in the 1880s, their vision sharpened and modernised by the new methods which came with hand-held photography.