thetreehunter Rob McBride

Damien Gayle lays the facts out in his hard-hitting piece in today's Guardian. We will NOT lose this tree! Please do sign the petition on Change. org, diolch, tks #savedarwinoak theguardian.com/science/2023/n…

Totally honoured and humbled to have been asked to unveil the #sheffield #streettrees campaign plaque. Thanks to Graham Wroe for filming youtube.com/watch?v=xGFTB4…

It was an absolute privilege for me to meet you, finally, James. And, WHAT A SPEECH you made, I'm still choked by it. Love to meet up again sometime for a #treehunt around the region maybe, all the best, Rob

@JuliaAArmstrong Thank you for coming along to report on this #TREEmendously important day! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@SteB777 So lovely to meet up with you and chat Stephen. What incredible photos you showed me. Till next time...

I went out today with the intention of seeing my first Adder, and Brimstone butterfly, and hopefully getting a record shot. I succeeded, and got a bonus Common Lizard, by the heap of Adders (at least 2, possibly 3).

@BBCShropshire @bbcmtd

Yesssss! £250,000,000 Saved, Shrewsbury's Green Wedge...Saved! The #DarwinOak Saved! Reality has set in, and the fantasy TORY scheme that was never ever going to be funded has been CANCELLED! We MUSt get back £39Million that the @toryparty wasted even b4 the goahead was given

. @patrick_barkham @guardian @guardiannews @thetimes

We've a new legend and route styles that make it easier to see and find great Slow Ways! Have a try here beta.slowways.org

Do we need 2 forget abt ever having proper legal protection for our #ancienttrees 12mths ago this week, the privately-owned #Lydhammanoroak a 13.02m girth lapsed pollard oak, was, in the words of a well-respected arb consultant 'butchered' @hbriggs @guardiannews @ShropshireStar

@SteB777 @RogerHallamCS21 They were too busy with their careers, reputations and ego's, along with money and power trips.

It is very difficult to know what to say about this. I have been trying to warn people for decades, that what will do for our present system, is biodiversity loss, and ecosystem collapse. And this will severely impact us in the near future, not the big physical climate impacts, like sea level rise, at the end of the century. What this assessment has told me, is that anyone can understand this if they read the relevant reports, like the @IPBES Global Assessment in 2019, but bizarrely it went over the heads of most people. My warnings weren't derived from mysticism, but from scientific assessments of biodiversity and ecosystems, and because I'm a graduate in scientific ecology. What has thrown my about this, is the surprise at this report's findings. This was all clear to anyone 30 years ago, if they had their eyes open. I'm aware how little ecological and biodiversity understanding there is in our culture, but I had no realized just how bad it was, and that hardly anyone understands just how reliant we are on biodiversity and natural ecosystems. That although this was being reported, that most people in influential and powerful positions, were just ignoring the reporting. theguardian.com/environment/20…

A few things are now certain - "it" is going to happen - mainly because they don't want you to know it's going to happen. And when it does, in two parallel universes, there will be two radical divergent paths. In one, the hatred of the self, of life, of the agony of consciousness will double down on itself - we will go extinct. In the other, the love of the self, of life, of the ecstasy of consciousness will create the greatest rupture of redemption and forgiveness - and we will not go extinct. The last thing which is certain is that if you ask which path it will be, then you are asking the wrong question. The only question is how you want to live your life at the end of the world. Love has no aim other than itself. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Cut blackthorn hedges less often = boost brown hairstreak butterflies. Really simple, cost-free (or even money-saving) measures can massively benefit wildlife: theguardian.com/environment/20…

@thetimes Go for it girl.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clashed with a reporter after being questioned about the practices of ICE agents. Confrontations between U.S. residents and federal officers have become increasingly tense after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

@paulpowlesland Ready for #pollarding Paul.

I had to spend my 35th birthday at home, isolating with Covid, so I decided to spend the day planting 35 black poplar trees. Five’s years later & a dozen of these trees survived & they’re starting to get massive: outgrowing the local lampposts & almost ready to climb! As I turn 40 tomorrow, I decided to repeat the exercise, planting 40 trees (18 blank poplar & 22 willow). Digging into the wet, silty mud beside the river, it was hard work, but immensely satisfying to mark the passage of time & a big life transition by giving a gift to the river, and not just receiving.

@Arden_2210 18

Only 0.1 % can solve this

@ToryWipeout When are you appearing at the @comedystoreuk ?

Britain is in such a better place than 18 months ago. Don't let Farage drag us back.

@elonmusk The UK us now a Left wing fascist state. Wokery is in control. I'd live to chat with you. #working class people, especially men, white men, are disenfranchised from society on a daily basis.

Prison Island

@PolitlcsUK What a total knob he is.

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says he hopes all MPs had a Happy Christmas "But not for Reform of course, because today is the day they celebrate Christmas in Russia" #PMQs

@GBNEWS @christopherhope #getstuffed #starmer Warmongering just like the aeU and USA nutters

POLL: Do you agree with sending British troops into Ukraine?gbnews.com/youdecide/ukra…

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Yet more charlatans being exposed today this time a so called river charity The Rivers Trust. Last year @Northhumberian was allowed by Ofwat to put up customers bills by a whopping 21% but that wasn't enough for this particular greedy water company oh no, they have appealed to the @CMAgovUK their corporate self-interest demanding that they be allowed to charge customers even more. Northumbrian Water you will remember is a company that has paid out almost £4.5 BILLION in dividends since privatisation, has loaded with the company with almost £5 BILLION in debt and currently almost 20 pence of every pound of customer's bill is used to do nothing but pay interest on that steaming pile of debt. In 2023 the company paid shareholders £396 for every hour they spent dumping sewage into the environment, the 4th highest rate in England. To cap it all off last year the company was fined £15.7 MILLION for how it "operated and maintained some of its sewage works and networks, which has resulted in excessive spills from storm overflows", That is Ofwat speak for illegally dumping sewage due to corporate greed, simply paying their shareholders instead of investing in their infrastructure. And here we have it The Rivers Trust, enthusiastically supporting Northumbrian Water's application to the CMA, to be allowed to fleece customers even more, to raise even more debt and send even more big fat dividends to waiting expectant offshore bank accounts. WHAT A FRAUD.

@eagleeyedrama @Iain_McCallum @Channel4 Maybe the worst acting I've seen for a good while.

There’s a new cop in town and she has no patience... Meet DI Frankie Monroe 🏍️ Patience S2 starts TOMORROW at 9pm on Channel 4 📺 @Channel4 #Patience