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@ProtectTheWild_ @DrGerryBrierley “Exploring”?

Local campaigners spoke up. 12,800+ of you signed our petition. And now Network Rail is being forced to act. They’re now exploring reopening swift nesting holes that were previously blocked, something that wasn’t even on the table before.

@dirk7890 @pengraiggoch We just don’t deserve nature. 😢

The little stream at the end of my road this morning. Hundreds of dead Roach. Very sad. Heavily polluted. Thames Water are here. Just breaks my heart to see. From des Taylor angling 😫

This is terrible. Come on #NetworkRail you’ve obviously made a mistake with your repairs. Unblock the Swift nest holes - and FAST. theguardian.com/environment/20…

@curlewcalls Done. Who knows if he’ll show.

Please write and ask your MP to attend the UK Curlew Action Plan briefing 🐦 in Committee Room 15 at 5pm, Wed 25th March. Hosted by Chris Hinchliff MP 🙏 I'll be speaking. Supporting Curlews means protecting whole landscapes and the many species that depend on them. #Curlew 💚💚

Homes England application (MC/26/0436) to build 450 houses on the former Chattenden Barracks near Lodge Hill Kent! This will result in the loss of Nightingales at the Chattenden Woods & Lodge Hill SSSI. Please share update info. change.org/p/protect-nigh…

@horton_official Noooo! We need you.

Professional news: from tomorrow I am spending some time on the National news team at the Guardian. This means I am moving from writing about the environment to….anything I want. Both exciting and daunting in equal measure. Please tell me stories!

@DaveGoulson Just ordered two of these great looking books. Can’t wait!

Last few tickets available!

@curlewcalls Oh no! Get well soon, Mary.

Life doesn’t always workout out. Day 1 of the Hebridean Way, all going swimmingly and I was so loving it. And then - slipped going downhill and in seconds a broken humerus and probably dislocated elbow. Waiting to be airlifted to Stornoway for an operation. I can’t thank enough the AMAZING Barra coastguard rescue team and the Barra hospital staff, your kindness is overwhelming. So sorry I won’t be posting beautiful photos of these stunning islands. I’m very disappointed. Thank you to everyone who sent lovely messages of support when I set out. ☹️😢 I will be back!

@curlewcalls Awww. He looks lovely. And brave!

My son... 😄😍theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Feel awful that I’ve only just realised we have a Minister for Nature @MaryCreagh_. But she seems to think the govt is doing a good job… Can’t help thinking she’s wrong. @curlewcalls

@DaveGoulson Almost like your book was all true, Prof Goulson. Maybe this is why Trump and his coterie are grasping as many of the earth’s riches as they can right now.

theguardian.com/environment/20… Perhaps the seriousness of our situation is finally beginning to sink in?

@DanicaPriest x.com/greenrupertrea…

Since Fingleton refused to answer which environmental groups he met with I looked for myself and found out he did not meet with any relevant professional bodies and there was zero ecological expertise on the Taskforce. I recommended this new report: wildlifetrusts.org/news/evidence-…

BREAKING!: Huge news: The Government has quietly published [link below] on its website, without any fanfare, the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on 'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY' that it suppressed last October. It has presumably done this at this point (in the middle of an international crisis) to try to bury the story. ...this is a huge story. Just consider the report's title, for starters... the report warns of multiple likely ecosystem >collapses< that will have dire implications for our national security, and that require serious strategic adaptation at minimum. The report also sets out how these collapses if they are allowed to occur will significantly increase migration-pressure: "as development gains begin to reverse", a phrase that should make any human shudder in anguish. There is much more... But it doesn't end there: what they have published very much appears to be >only part of a larger piece of work<: there is no detail at all in what they have published on the geo-regional analyses; the connections from those regional analyses to the national security threats consequently facing Britain are not detailed; the "Key Judgements" of the report are not properly explained. It is fairly obvious what has happened here: in response to FOIs, they are trying to slip this report out, presumably because they feared it would otherwise get out anyway; but they have done so in a form that holds back much of the most disturbing content - the content that WE as citizens need to know if we are to know how to protect ourselves, what we are potentially going to have to adapt TO. We must continue to press for the full report to be released... But in the meantime there is much here to digest and reflect on, to put it mildly. Kudos to those who commissioned the report; do READ this version of it (it's only short!), and let's take it from there... Kudos too to those who pursued an (at least partly) successful battle to get the report released, via Freedom of Information requests... >>Please share widely! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae…

@curlewcalls Yes! Yes! Yes!

Do you agree with me? A developer offered Curlew action over £100k as compensation for building on a winter roost site for curlews - it’s for a holiday development. God knows we need the money 💰 but the world doesn’t need more glamping pods and birds need rest and food through the winter. I turned it down. Did I make the right decision?

The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on 🌍 yet a 🧱is too much of a stretch for Labour to save our swifts.This symbolic 🎥 is for those who care that the existence of swifts is on the line.I hate campaigning but I’ll never give up on the birds.If you care,share🙏

@horton_official They dumped them, didn’t they?

Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex theguardian.com/environment/20…

@horton_official @helenadollimore Wholly agree.

Local MP @helenadollimore says "Instead of paying dividends or bonuses, they must pay for a full programme of nature recovery to restore the fragile ecosystems at Camber Sands, Rye and Hastings, and along our coastline – ecosystems that their negligence has put at serious risk”

@SmartGrowthUK @NaturalEngland #degrowth seems to be the only sane way forward. That and abandoning the AI data centre influx.

" @NaturalEngland appears to have caved under Government and Whitehall pressure - and their obsessional belief that giving the development and house building industries whatever they want will secure "growth". It's time to rethink the quango and start asking tough questions. 1/⬇️

When you tell your mum you like bumblebees … All items are available on our online shop and support UK bumblebee conservation. Tell your mum. 🐝🎁 bumblebeeconservation.org/gift-guide/

@organicsi @curlewcalls It’s been in train for bloody years! Most spent being kicked into the long grass

@curlewcalls It takes years to design and get a new GCSE up and running in an existing subject and this one is 'new'. Did you know there are already GCSEs in both environmental science and environmental management available?

Am I missing something? Where is the Natural History GCSE? Where is the promised focus on nature? We were told to wait for this review and all would be clear, but it looks like it’s been buried, delayed, or quietly dropped yet again. How can a government ignore the natural world so completely? gov.uk/government/new…