Lesley Crawshaw

@donnarainey4 Well done Donna. It’s such a shame it’s needed, but it’s always such a good feeling to rid a place of litter and return a place to how it should be.

I got sick of seeing this mess of fly tipping & littering at a local woodland. You can wait & hope someone else will sort it,but that rarely happens. This lot now at the local council refuse centre & the woodland is looking beautiful.

A tragic destiny and our shocking legacy. The microfibres from our plastic clothes end up among the plankton. @NatGeo @zeiss_micro

@fredsteenbergen That’s a shame. Do you ever find Smarties lids?

@LACrawshaw empty, no text :-(

Found a lid today, and first thing i thought was '#Smarties?' Second thing i thought was 'what was it with smarties?'. So now that i am tagging this found litter, i googled. It is not even smarties apparently :-)

Forgive us our trespasses… Sandwiched between the North Circular & the housing estates of Ilford lies a rare & precious jewel: the largest tidal reedbeds in London. However, they are in a bad way: smothered in plastic & rubbish swept in by the tide & with invasive species encroaching further every year. They are owned by public authorities (mainly @TfL) who have done absolutely nothing to care for them in decades & wont even let our volunteer run charity, the River Roding Trust, take responsibility for them & provide public access, at no cost to TFL. Local river guardians have decided that we will not allow this precious natural place to die through neglect, & so this weekend we hopped the river wall & trespassed onto this land, to care, protect & restore it in the face of the failure of the landowning public authority to do so themselves. We combed through the reeds & removed dozens of bags of rubbish coating the area, cut back invasive species & replaced them with native trees, & removed old tree guards from saplings that had been planted long ago & forgotten about. Whilst we managed to care for a few hundred metres of the reedbeds, there remains much to do over the remaining months of winter. There is something powerful about local communities acting, without permission or official sanction or funding, to care for nature when the government bodies that are supposed to do so have failed.

The amount of litter found on the shores of one small section of Strangford Lough is crazy at the moment.

So Southern Water’s toxic plastic beads have now made it all the way across the English Channel. Can someone explain to me, exactly what the hell does a water company have to do to loose their operating licence?

Southern Water haven't just polluted English beaches, their toxic beads have made it across the Channel to Northern France, I am told. This from a beach at Wissant

My report from last night's meeting in Rye about the catastrophic biobead spill - Thought to be 650 million toxic beads littering the coast - They have spread to many beaches & a nature reserve - EA looking at upgrading to a category 1 pollution event theguardian.com/environment/20…

@donnarainey4 I found Ballerina Waxcaps and a few other grassland fungi in the grounds of a local church as well on Saturday. Definitely good places to check out for them. First time seeing the Ballerinas.

Waxcap #fungi

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Tuesday 14th October 7.30 to 9pm Ulster Museum; also zoom (register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member) Neil Reid, QUB, speaks on "The Natural History of the Irish Hare: The Ice Age to present" (Photo: Alan Wolfe)

Photos from this morning's Seapark 2nd Sunday Beach Clean where 9 of us collected 24.6kgs of litter and waste in 4 consolidated bags (plus some larger items). Thanks to all who attended on a fine, mild and dry morning. #LiveHereLoveHere #leavenotrace #dontbeatosser

Some wildflowers have seed heads that are truly spectacular! The challenge this week is to find some and then share your lovely pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #SeedHeads! Any wild or naturalised blooms you find too are of course always welcome!

Depressing.Donegal CoCo cuts down a 90-yr old oak to put in a cycleway. 1600 locals petitioned to save the tree.This is not going to help ppl embrace cycling infrastructure.Cycle/Greenways that threaten nature are not green @DarraghOBrienTD @JamesBrowneTD donegallive.ie/news/letterken…

@donnarainey4 Wow! It looks amazing Donna. So uplifting for the spirit.

Virtually everywhere you look, it's a scene of beauty, Connemara. #cycling #wildflowerhour

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Ragwort is a biodiversity super plant supporting 200 insect species.

“The planned development is also causing “serious concerns” for the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland, which has warned against the loss of a “complex ecosystem” that has developed in the forest over hundreds of years.” #SaveTullynagardyWood irishnews.com/news/northern-…

We have little enough woodland in Ards & North Down as it is, so it’s shocking to see that part of a protected woodland, Tullynagardy, could be lost so that 5 luxury houses can be built unless the Council’s Planning Conmittee on Tuesday refuses planning permission. #WhittledAway