We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:
An historic moment for Nature recovery in England with a new policy setting out plans for the return of wild Beavers. Licenses will be issued by @NaturalEngland so that we can harness the power of these keystone animals for the many benefits they bring.
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We are getting new photos from Northern Gaza. Not a single building has been left standing. Levels of destruction we have not seen even at the sites of nuclear bomb explosions
I love asking people to guess how big passenger pigeon flocks could get. 100,000 birds? A million?
Try two billion. In 1860 one writer described a flock of birds a mile wide that took *14 hours* to pass overhead, packed so dense that it blocked the sun.
Unhelpful to publish the views of someone who has little regard for wildlife. It's too convenient to blame bats when the problems, as per usual, lie with unnecessary bureaucracy. Money could be spent better elsewhere with bigger benefits for wildlife 🦇
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Amid the destruction of war, Ukrainian scientists are seeing nature making a recovery.
When the conflict ends, they say, the nation should not rebuild its Soviet-era infrastructure but instead let nature continue to restore itself.
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Live before the eyes of the world:
Israel wipes out the entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to the 2,000-year-old shrine of Prophet Benjamin.
History reduced to rubble.
Centuries of heritage gone.
While the “international community” just watches in silence.
NOW: Israeli forces have launched at least two missiles at dozens of displaced people sheltering in tents at Al Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza. The outpatient clinic building was also hit in the attack, causing a fire to spread in the area.
There is no way that what Israel just pulled in Lebanon is not a war crime. It is 100% a war crime. It is an act of terror and attempting to justify it by saying the target was Hezbollah when they killed children, medics, doctors, civilians is not going to work. Horrific.
When politicians demonise migrants, the far right listen.
When they say refugees should be “sent back to where they came from”, the far right listen.
When they complain about asylum seekers staying in hotels, the far right listen.
Let’s promote a message of unity instead.
One that tackles the issues facing us all: the housing crisis, the collapse of our NHS and the disaster of privatisation.
One that gives hope to all communities that a fairer society is possible.
Stand up to racism. Defend refugees. Inspire belief in a better world. That is how you defeat the far right once and for all.
A surreal & haunting photo of a jaguar killed in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix in 1901.
Just a few generations ago breeding populations of these magnificent cats thrived in Arizona. There are records of a female jaguar with cubs at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.