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#Firecrest, a scarce winter visitor, showing well in the winter sunshine in #SouthwarkPark. A lovely park and a great place for wildlife. #londonbirds

"a country soaked in record rainfall arranging a deal to use tankers to import Norwegian water... I can't even finish my sentence." @GreenJennyJones explains why existing powers could lead to 40% more investment cleaning up sewage if we stopped paying shareholders and creditors

Being a regular South Devon seawatcher I first started to see Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) off the coast back in 2010 (14 years ago). They are now a regular sight usally arriving in August, numbers peaking in October and I see them into December.

@Matt_Pinner A capital city with crumbling, leaking waste water infrastructure & precarious drinking water supply. The city’s water company has seemingly borrowed without limit & is £16.5bn in debt. It’s paid out £10.4 billion in dividends since it was privatized in 1989.

Without naming your city, what is your city known for?

I'd never have guessed...

Oil beetles are endangered, and part of this is due to eating dog poop. Dogs are given worming tablets, and these don’t just kill worms, they kill the oil beetles who eat it. I saw 50 dead or dying beetles today. Leaving dog poo behind isn’t just gross, it’s ecocide:

Raised bed [bog] construction complete! Decided to turn a big chunk of the patio over to this beast today which will be a huge help in propagating rare species currently absent or very rare across the Manchester Mosses SAC 😍🌱

5 peaceful climate protesters are facing an excessive sentence under the undemocratic Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. I’m calling on Labour to repeal the Conservatives’ repressive anti-protest laws which undermine our obligations under international law.

Thank you SO much to everyone who helped plant 1/3 of a hectare of severely degraded raised bog with Sphagnum… In a few years, all these wee clumps should form a continuous carpet alongside heaps of wild cranberry, sundews and a lot lot more! 🥰🌱

You probably know that Oak does not produce flowers on its regrowth shoots. What is happening here is called Multiple Peduncle Syndrome. No acorns are ever produced from these strange female peduncles. Commoner than usual this strange year.

Known from <15 places in England, Im sooo excited to have found this Bladderwort (Utricularia stygia) at a site in Cumbria! It’s one of 12 carnivorous plants native to Britain, and a special chappie indeed! 😍😍🌱

Dear @SteveReedMP and @DefraGovUK This sounds tough, and perhaps a good step forward, but I think you are missing the public's depth of anger towards the water companies. We don't trust them to be accountable. Please at least consider putting water back into public ownership.

"Water company bosses could face prison time in new Labour crackdown on sewage infested rivers, lakes and seas." That idea is already part of the Companies Act and has been for almost 20 years. Wanna know how many company bosses have ever been prosecuted never mind gone to jail in that time? That'll be none. What a wasted opportunity. news.sky.com/story/water-co…

So we all went on the Zoom call, and we were all told in earnest tones how much better care they were going to take around the plane trees this year. What happened, @krankbrother? @haringeycouncil @JustPlaneNews @FinsParkFriends

The tidy brigade 😡

On June 20 the City of London votes on whether current restrictions on Bank Junction should remain. Black cabs have been lobbying hard. They cite the benefits for the disabled. But disabled users don't agree. Watch this video of wheelchair user Ben Foley @citypolicychair

Half the people in Gaza trapped by Israel’s siege & bombardment face death and starvation by mid-July, according to a UN report. That’s over one-million people facing death because Israel is preventing humanitarian aid getting through, as well as relentlessly bombing.

@fungi_flowers 😍 Here’s Taphrina padi on Clendish Marsh, Tottenham Marshes #LeeValleyWildlife

This map of post-2020 river pollution with the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam has generated much discussion over where it is coming from. Can it all be from sugar beet (the only legal use)? Surely the onus is on @Syngenta to find out - they make the stuff!