Spark of Nature 🐝

Lover of birds, animals, wildlife, walking, yoga and photography!

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

Someone's hungry for food this morning!

[Wisdom Stoics @WisdomStoics]

8.

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

REAL

[Mindful Maven @mindfulmaven_]

so deep and meaningful

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

@SoVeryBritish "So far so good"

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

@Matt_Pinner The Haunting of Hill House and One day, are 10/10 for me

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

As long as I live, I’ll never forget the day day that a young Common Lizard got so comfortable on my hand, due to the warmth, that it felt safe enough to fall asleep! 😍 I was just mesmerised. Endearing doesn’t quite cut it! ❤️🦎

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

Exactly 12 years ago today, a Taliban gunman pointed his gun at my head and shot me for daring to speak up for girls’ right to go to school.

I want to thank every person for your solidarity and support, from praying for my recovery to helping me in my work for girls’ access to education, both in my home country of Pakistan and around the world.

Most years, I spend October 9th like any other day, with gratitude for having lived another year. But today, I am in New York to address the American Society of International Law (ASIL), a prestigious group of legal experts who have chosen to honour @MalalaFund and its work alongside Afghan activists fighting to protect the right to education for girls in Afghanistan. These women worked tirelessly before the fall of Kabul in 2021, and fearlessly since, to keep girls learning under the most impossible circumstances. It is humbling to stand alongside them and gratifying to see them receive the recognition they deserve.

The Taliban continue to point literal and metaphoric weapons at girls and women in Afghanistan every day, from public beatings to ruthless edicts that ban them from learning, working and living freely. The brutality of the Taliban’s oppressive system against women is so extreme that Afghan activists and human rights defenders are calling it gender apartheid.

Right now, Afghan women and girls need more than words of sympathy. I call on governments and influential institutions to leverage their power, and through international law, hold the Taliban accountable. I especially call on Muslim leaders and institutions to play a leading role in challenging the Taliban’s misuse of religion and culture.

Just as people stood with me and my friends more than a decade ago, I hope people will stand in solidarity with Afghan girls and women now.

❤️ @Hmosadiq @zarqayaftali @deemahiram @metra_mehran @RahelaHSidiqi @SHalaimzai

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

Someone's hungry for food this morning!

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

Which side are you on? Add your name to the petition calling on the UK government to ban the use of pesticides on the streets, parks and playgrounds of our villages, towns and cities. https://t.co/MU0X34lOVN #GoPesticideFree

[paul hayes @paulhayes55]

Guess who 🙂

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

@ChandlerBing_12 London baby

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

More record rainfall across the UK and true to form we are all talking/complaining about the weather . But why is it so rainy ? Maybe we should shift the national small talk narrative to . . . the climate . . .

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

There is no planet B , we must do all we can to fight to protect Earth , for all life . #RestoreNatureNow

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

@SoVeryBritish Good days, bad weeks

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Shellfish industry on a 'knife edge' as sewage dumped in designated waters for 192,000 hours last year."

And right on cue this comes along, the shellfish industry having to pickup the tab for the water industry's greed and the regulator's failure.

https://t.co/cUpBkY1Wla

[Spark of Nature 🐝 @SparkofNature7]

@ChandlerBing_12

[The Cottage in the Wildwood @cottageinwood]

That feeling when it is about to rain 🌳

[paul hayes @paulhayes55]

👋🏼 Morning.