Ken Pluck

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 All things nature. Hate all cruelty. Lousy photographer. Looking forward to a real Labour government. Baldy old rocker.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Needs to stop NOW.

[Sussex News - Breaking news for Sussex @SussexIncidents]

🚨 Mid Sussex Police are urging the public to report anyone using catapults against wildlife. It is a crime under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, with offenders facing unlimited fines & up to 6 months in jail. Report in-progress incidents to 999 or 101.

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

New research from University of Leeds & the RSPB shows that burning on grouse moors is exposing millions of people to unsafe air pollution levels.

Yet another reason to ban this 'sport'.

Press release & link to the paper ⬇️

https://t.co/jKqxk8PlfY

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Feargal Sharkey, "Water companies... The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail"

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You think we should put them in jail?"

Feargal Sharkey, "If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself"

[Churchill MGᵀᴹ 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ChurchillFella]

Near Kyiv, a mother stork was killed by a Russian drone while covering her four chicks with her wings.
Svitlana, a local resident, took in the orphaned stork chicks and received the necessary guidance on how to care for them.
Thank you, kind soul.
Little storks will grow and keep bringing Ukrainian people happiness on their wings.

[Mary Colwell @curlewcalls]

Posting this again as it is nesting time. Dogs on leads near breeding areas - PLEASE 🙏🙏

[Bryan Smith #RejoinEU same handle on BlueSky @BpsmithUk]

Labour have announced this, & published it.
The Media aren't interested in publicising it.
The Media are hoping most of the public remian unaware of it.

Retweet the heck out of it & get the message across!
#LabourIsWorking

[Stephen Foster @Stephen47629998]

Disgusted to see that @wessexwater have blocked access for swallows to get to their nesting site at Tonedale water treatment works. The pair have bred there for at least the last 3 years.

[Ken Pluck @RuddyPluck]

@GrandadWolf64 @KeyserSosse At saw as

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Why have we seen nothing of this on the news ?

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

Animal testing is not incidental suffering. It is systemic, deliberate, and built into the process itself. Science has moved on.

We no longer need to rely on cruel animal testing.

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Hunting with hounds: Government consultation on strengthening hunting laws and a rally in London.

Details ⬇️

https://t.co/ndtJm1NfgS

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

@networkrail have the chance to do something lovely here. Something kind to little scraps of life heading to what their instinct tells them will be their safe, traditional nesting places. Something to defend our diminishing wildlife and set an example to admire. Please act.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons won't make it up to grandma in heaven.

But they will return to Earth and choke wildlife.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years installing nest boxes for barn owls in his free time.

No grant. No organization behind him. Just Robert Salter, quietly building and mounting over 350 boxes across fields and farms on weekends, before and after work, for three and a half decades.

This year was the second-best barn owl breeding season in the region in decades. 304 owlets counted. Last year there were 95.

Barn owls have struggled across the UK for generations due to habitat loss, rodenticide poisoning, starvation from agricultural changes that eliminated the field margins where voles live, and collisions with vehicles on roads that cut through their hunting territory.

In many parts of England, populations collapsed while nobody was paying much attention.

One man paying attention changed the outcome for an entire region.

"This bird has lived alongside humans since they settled in this country," Salter told the BBC. "Because of that close relationship, I just feel like we owe it to barn owls to help and maintain their future populations."

The conservation story we usually tell involves governments, legislation, and international agreements.

Those matter, but so does one person who decided a species deserved better and just kept showing up.

[Nula Suchet @nulasuchet]

This must be undone. These birds fly thousands of miles to nest in our counties. It’s a privilege to have them- heartbreakingly there numbers are declining - please, please campaign to network rail to reverse

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @birdshannah]

#NetworkRail are getting bogged down in their own justifications but the point is that the swift nesting sites are blocked and they can unblock them. 📧email CEO Jeremy Westlake asking him to unblock them: [email protected] #SaveOurSwifts #UnblockTheNests

[Peter Egan @PeterEgan6]

.@rickygervais I salute the courage of this brave woman protesting about the slaughter of 3 million dogs in Morocco. You can see what we are up against by the crowds response. Shame on them @IAWPCoalition ⁦@FIFAWorldCup⁩ they clearly don’t care it’s shameful.