St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃

We have united to oppose the building of 2000 houses on local farmland fields, which would put a huge strain on the environment (inc an SSSI), roads & services.

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

🪶Britain’s #wildbirds are disappearing. Since 1970, UK #farmlandbird populations have fallen 63% & #woodlandbirds 32%. Farmland birds fell another 12% between 2020-25. We must protect the #habitats wildlife depends on. Source: https://t.co/mKMLeh0z2r

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Remembrance Day should also be time for reflection for all the animals sacrificed in the name of human conflicts

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

A slightly jerky bit of filming courtesy of dogs on leads, but lovely to see so many #starlings - and #piedwagtails everywhere in our fields #colchester

[Tiger @tiger26931]

The Netherlands have banned consumer fireworks to the public citing pets as one of the major reasons why . From now on only licensed shows are permitted. 🇳🇱

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or your garden or community green space could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝

[Tiggywinkles @TiggywinklesUK]

🦔One swipe of a garden strimmer left Dodge with a deep wound across his head.💔Our team is treating his injury with a special wound care patch.
🌿Please, always check for wildlife before strimming or mowing, and share Dodge’s story to help protect other hedgehogs!

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Come along - it’s your warm up for Christmas! #BarnDance #FamousPotatoes #FundRaiser #Colchester #Essex

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

If you live in #StJohnsColchester please support this last opportunity to #SaveBullockWood & #StJohnsFields. Email us. Deadline this Sat 10th to add your name to #Reg19Submission

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Just a little reminder of the value of ivy to pollinators - especially right now when so much was burnt to a cinder during the summer. #pollinators #ivy #nature

[Treemissions @treemissions]

Tree bark is secretly eating methane.

Scientists discovered that the world’s forests absorb 25–50 million tons of atmospheric methane every year through their bark.

Trees just got 7–12% better for the climate than we thought. Nature’s been quietly saving us this whole time.

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

The National Planning Policy Framework is a spectacular failure.

All at once, it ignores communities, fails to build homes we need, and is a labyrinth of empty process that doesn’t protect the environment or uphold decent housing standards.

Scrap the lot and start again.

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

@ChrisGPackham This is #BullockWoodSSSI (ancient woodland), already partly compromised by housing. Colchester City Council have the fields around two more sides earmarked for a huge housing development.

[Treemissions @treemissions]

A single mature tree can lift a whole bathtub of water from the ground and pump it into the air every day… through pure physics and leaf magic. That’s one tree quietly running its own personal waterfall, cooling the planet, making rain, and giving us free AC.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Animals are NOT ours to use and abuse EVER!!

The look in the eyes of this poor Donkey says “I can’t take any more of this”. 😢

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Hate to see a time when we didn’t get visitors like this to our fields. #CanadaGeese #NorthColchester #StJohnsFields #Wildlife #BullockWoodSSSI

[Rose @sexofdistance]

how could we as humans allow this animal to nearly be extinct

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

The C2C TWAO has been granted, with powers to compulsorily purchase land and fell hundreds of mature trees across Madingley Hill and Coton Orchard. They accept the harm is likely permanent, but approved it anyway. https://t.co/8blOl9jPAl

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

@EmmaforWycombe Why are so many councils planning to build all over viable farmland? Here in North Colchester there are plans to build 2000 houses on grade 2 farmland - and that’s just us. How does this fit with your “food security” message???

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

It seems such a long time since we’ve experienced this! #rain #colchester #bullockwoodsssi

[Treemissions @treemissions]

🌳 Plot twist: Trees don’t just vacuum CO₂.
Microscopic life living on their bark also quietly sucks up methane — another potent greenhouse gas.
Scientists say this makes forests 7–12% better for the climate than we ever gave them credit for. Nature’s silent overachievers