Jules Robinson

Creative communications, Editor, nature lover, sheep whisperer, passion for all things wild and inspired!

[Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃 @SusieTa32510601]

Does this government have any common sense? How many AI data centres do we need? They’re getting built all over the greenbelt and countryside with no acknowledgement of the huge #water and #energy consumption, and #carbon emissions generated ..the south east and east of England is already facing major water security concerns.. it’ll be the people and the environment that will suffer.
https://t.co/Qp0GytSjgl

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

RT if you agree that animals should be loved, not eaten. 🧡

[Compassion in World Farming International @CIWF_Global]

Animals are not cargo. Yet millions are cruelly exported each year.

We’ve written an open letter to @WOAH, calling on them to strengthen their transport guidelines – and ultimately, to end this inhumane trade.

Sign the open letter: https://t.co/8SYYXXt39C #BanLiveExportsDay

#BanLiveExports

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

#AnimalTests #UnreliableUnethicalUnnecessary Please take action to help stop animal tests.
🐶Write to your MP or Congressperson & tell them you want to see urgent replacement of animal use with advanced, non-animal methods.
UK: https://t.co/cO2IaV3WSb
US: https://t.co/15pOJ0CVBE

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

“This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen.

“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.

[John Gardner @WildscenesUK]

The lure of a new bird for Britain proved too much and after 3.5hrs driving, we arrived in Caernarfon to behold this! Western reef heron - what a beauty!
📷 Z9 & 600mm f/4 TC VRS
@UKNikon @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK
#Wales #birdsseenin2026

[Sparrow @sparrowincrisis]

Surfing

[Compassion in World Farming International @CIWF_Global]

For #BanLiveExportsDay we’ve launched an open letter with more than 130 charities, celebrities & experts, calling on @WOAH to improve welfare for farmed animals during transport, and ultimately #BanLiveExports

Find out more: https://t.co/UM2ZQPBhUg

[Sparrow @sparrowincrisis]

Listen to the birds not the news

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

There’s a heatwave in Antarctica which is, of course, approaching midwinter. Temperatures have exceeded 15C, hotter than the (near midsummer) level at my southern U.K. home as I write. Only the response to global heating seems to be in deep freeze….

https://t.co/jscHoR8NGt

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

‼️ 500 Gannet chicks are at risk of being slaughtered this year in a tradition called the Guga hunt ‼️ Sign the petition to help stop it https://t.co/nxzSPOVOWz

[Compassion in World Farming US @ciwfusa]

For #BanLiveExportsDay we’ve launched an open letter with more than 130 charities, celebrities & experts, calling on @WOAH to improve welfare for farmed animals during transport, and ultimately #BanLiveExports

Find out more and sign: https://t.co/kxtKEjTmSW

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes, farmland, energy and water consumption.

These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.

▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 400 million tons.

▪️ A recent report by the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health confirms that unchecked AI data centre expansion could produce nearly 400 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2030. This rivals the annual emissions of the entire UK.

▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around ‌the ⁠same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.

▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.

▪️Research suggests that large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.

Numerous campaigns against these data centres are being organised by local communities. No one voted for this. Power for the people, not the AI data centres.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Falmouth MP Jayne Kirkham reform of water industry."

It's incredible when you think about it, South West Water has just been fined £1.85 million for poisoning a whole town, Brixham win Devon, that's the 165th offence they're been found guilty of and yet they still have an operating licence?

What's the hells going on?

https://t.co/YLukkFNY9d

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

This is sick. Remember when Steve Reed campaigned on a platform to save nature and the countryside? Now he is bulldozing local democracy for data centres no one asked for. No one voted for this. We should be protesting in the streets like Albania is.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Meet Moon.

She’s our 93rd known grand calf. Her mum, Melia, lost her own mother when she was a baby, but she learned nurturing in our care. Now Melia is roaming wild and proving herself to be a very able mum of two, supported by her village of elephant friends and human guardians.

As for Moon, just days old here. The Keepers' word for her is curious – exploring trunks, exploring feet, exploring whatever's within reach. Right now she's working out the basics.

Meet Moon: https://t.co/WjZQtajvUC

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

I just play it on repeat since yesterday:

"Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old.
I'd like to ask you a few questions."

Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home."

Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope:
Do you like soccer?
When you were little, did you want to be Pope?
Why are my mom and dad worried?
Why does my dad have so many jobs?
Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it?
Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them?
How can we help if the world is so big?
Does God want there to be poor and rich?
Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important?
And one last question ... Must we always forgive?

What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving.

"Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind."

He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together."

"Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life."

Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it."

"But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine."

"But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us."

Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life."

Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them."

On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God."
Video: Vatican Media

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Two up, one down! 😁
2 juvenile Blue Tits (top) just after being fed by their hard working parent (bottom) in my Somerset garden yesterday. 😍
Have you started seeing baby birds in your garden? 😊🐦

[Sheep In Stitches @sheepinstitches]

Stolen from GL4 (Glos) between 9pm Wed 10th & 6am on Thurs 11th June. Landrover 90 TDI. N463 UUX.
V. well used and v. distinctive. Series 3 drivers door, Mercedes front grill badge, multiple scars and dents and stickers including #hawkstonefarmerschoir Please share. Thanks!💔

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

More remarkable footage of the crazy weather in Aberdeen a couple of days ago, with scenes resembling winter rather than summer.

Video by Forres Tree Services https://t.co/1MWN74ivVl