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BQ Magazine, full of inspiring ways to help and love our UK insects, is having to take a rest. Back numbers are still available on the website.

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Ah, sad news. Rising prices have forced our small but beautiful BQ Magazine to go into hibernation - it might just emerge next spring so this account will keep going🤞. Thanks to all our subscribers and wonderful contributors.

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@DaveGoulson @ElaineCox11 Why on earth can’t they make sugar from parsnips?

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@rlewington2 @StevenFalk1 Everyone needs an asymmetrical gynandromorph in their life.

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@ProtectTheWild_ @DrGerryBrierley “Exploring”?

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

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This is terrible. Come on #NetworkRail you’ve obviously made a mistake with your repairs. Unblock the Swift nest holes - and FAST. https://t.co/EbIPn48ir7

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

[Wendy Blythe @greenarteries]

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. https://t.co/wAtrz109KS

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@horton_official Noooo! We need you.

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

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@curlewcalls Oh no! Get well soon, Mary.

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@curlewcalls Awww. He looks lovely. And brave!

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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

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@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.

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@DanicaPriest https://t.co/xBpt6E4d4o

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

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. <DON'T LET IT BE BURIED> ...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!
https://t.co/lMI3Nr5mPL

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

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. <DON'T LET IT BE BURIED> ...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!
https://t.co/lMI3Nr5mPL

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@curlewcalls Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @birdshannah]

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🙏

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@horton_official They dumped them, didn’t they?

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@horton_official @helenadollimore Wholly agree.

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