Ian Wright 🦒

Senior Conservation Ranger for idverde Bromley. My hobby is my work. Lucky or what!! All views expressed are my own :)

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What helps: Intergenerational conversations, reconnecting us with what nature used to be. Direct experiences with nature that sharpen our awareness of change. Remembering the past is the first step to restoring the future. #nature #environment #awareness #nativeplants

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The biggest crisis is not immigration or pot holes, not left or right, it’s the tragic decline in biodiversity and wildlife loss. Yet people ignore it as we become human obsessed forgetting that nature is the source of all our resources.

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Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.

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If you never saw that version, you don’t feel the loss — and that quiet forgetting becomes the new baseline. Over time, we start accepting degraded ecosystems as normal.

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Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” because it’s all they’ve ever known. Think about walking through a park and thinking, “This seems healthy.” But maybe 30 years ago that same park had twice as many birds, wildflowers, or insects.

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Monitored vertebrate populations, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, have fallen by 73% on average from 1970 to 2020. Freshwater species are down 85%. Shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be.

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The non-native fennel plant is still there though. I suppose it must have flowers of some sort 🙄

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A dogs dinner of a 'wild flower verge' managed by @TfL has not been cut for two years and is scrubbing over. A21 near Orpington. Some have been cut all through the summer and some never. Paying lip service or what? @MarkCocker2 They don't know what they are doing! #biodiversity

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@TfL It has been cut in the last 24hrs, in spring. As has the one in the picture. See the sign? It says Wild Flower verge. Cut in the spring? WTF? A "responsible authority" Ignorant twits! @MarkCocker2 It's maddening that this mismanagement is allowed.

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@TfL MOWING WILD FLOWER VERGES - NOW? WTF? You really should give some thought to how you make yourselves look stupid! @MarkCocker2 #biodiversity #bromley

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Dilemma! I always go for the underdog but I am a @OfficialBHAFC supporter! Added to that if Palace win the cup it makes it harder for @OfficialBHAFC to get a European place 🫤

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@TfL is it worth employing someone that knows what they are doing when you designate 'wildflower verges'? Your management along the A21 in the Bromley area is nothing short of disgraceful. #biodiversity @MarkCocker2

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@HighwaysEnglan1 up to their tricks again #M25 junction 5- May 1st all plants cut and the woody veg side flailed. I'm sure they checked for nesting birds of course! @WeeBee333 @MarkCocker2 #biodiversity #pollinators #wildflowers EVERY YEAR THEY IGNORE THEIR BIODIVERSITY PLAN

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@ErinStapylton @ClaudetteGGibs1 Twat

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Magpies shot down by Seagulls yet again @OfficialBHAFC @NUFC Whoop whoop 👏

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https://t.co/qBefijWMwq And some farmers are concerned??? About environmental and #biodiversity gains??? What are the chances? #environment #farming #flooding

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@ScadburyRanger There's your answer!

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@herdyshepherd1 Perhaps Russia should take Alaska back with all it's mineral wealth. I expect they would fight hard for that too and should keep it

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@TfL has a novel way of managing #wildflower verges. They put really expensive signs up saying 'Wild Flower Verge' and then mow them. Twice this year already and it's only February! @MarkCocker2 Biodiversity is doomed with this mad behaviour

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new Tesla speedometer looks awful

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