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Once York Natural Environment Trust CIO - protecting green spaces in York, UK since 1988 died 2006

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

National Grid really hates nature.

Here’s more destruction along the Bramford to Twinstead pylons route. In nesting season.

[♌Dr. Leonix, MOB I♌🇳🇬 @LOmoarelojie]

@yashar @subyroy The best strategy for combating environmental degradation, which is often driven by human activities, is to deploy natural mechanisms and not the largely unnatural interventions that we always pursue.

Nature knows how to heal herself, aid her! Don't hijack the process!

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.

After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

[Rosewood Farm's Rob @Rosewood_Farm]

'...without the farmers, landowners and land workers on board none of them will get very far. Making small islands of biodiversity is all very good, but we need a connected landscape of plenty.'

https://t.co/8qBSnSCsUX

[Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 @vickihird]

"A well-managed transition to nature-friendly farming, healthy soils.. green spaces that cool.. rivers.. wetlands that slow & store floodwater are all essential to keep food on our shelves and helping to protect people, places and wildlife,”
https://t.co/X4wxeYOdW9

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating “”In accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicable”. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds.
(This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury)

@PylonsEAnglia

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid."

Meet who is now the de facto owner of Thames Water. It's a tragedy in 3 acts and it does not end well. 👇👇👇

https://t.co/UsYap0AaiG

[YNET @YNET4]

North York Moors: Police appeal after buzzard shot in Bransdale - BBC News
https://t.co/EZquDz3rZV

[IlkleyCleanRiver @CleanIlkley]

And @BellRibeiroAddy

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And here's the real challenge for the big environment charities.

They got played by govt during the passage of the Planning Act, played by govt during the Cunliffe Review and now they're going to get played again by the Water Bill or are they for the first time going to be prepared to stand up for themselves? 🤔

[Rosewood Farm's Rob @Rosewood_Farm]

Pesticides have no effect on health, I keep hearing, but their effects upon the health of our countryside are laid bare for all to see.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Why campaigners want a referendum on water ownership

After years of sewage scandals and complaints about water companies, there are calls for the industry in England and Wales to be re-nationalised.

📩Read our latest newsletter here: https://t.co/IrpPRCNOh9

[Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 @vickihird]

so @UKGCA Groceries Code Adjudicator moves from @biztradegovuk to inside @DefraGovUK - poss useful & says retains its independence.- vita to be able to enforce strong fair dealing codes incl on cost price increase requests & not subject to big food lobby https://t.co/GtriqHU2Am

[The i Paper @theipaper]

One in five trees planted using taxpayer funding died due to drought last year, leaving the UK even further away from meeting its legally-binding tree cover targets https://t.co/t6YRWcgZqj

[The i Paper @theipaper]

An anonymous US official has told Reuters that an American fighter jet was shot down over Iran, corroborating earlier Iranian state media reports.

➡️ Follow live updates: https://t.co/Os0HyV6jYr

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Topsoil isn’t just dirt. It’s the thin, fragile layer that feeds 8 billion people. Lose it, and yields fall, prices rise, and food security weakens. It takes centuries to form and minutes to destroy. One of the most underappreciated assets in our economy.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

The flip side of this, of course, is that developers can use the threat of sky high costs to strong arm cash-strapped local councils into passing crap development for which there are lawful grounds for refusing.

A key contributor to this is the ludicrous costs charged by barristers and solicitors in the UK. I don’t think we talk enough about how the bankruptcy level of costs to have almost any legal dispute determined by a fair & impartial court is undermining democracy & the rule of law in this country.

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Fascinating discovery that blows a giant hole in the "we can genetically engineer drought-resistant plants" claim.

Water, soil, plants are a complex, integrated system

@GMWatch @Beyond_GM #PlanetaryBoundaries
https://t.co/7aM9TvMZnK

[Bog-trotter @4peatssake2]

"The promise to open up the Land Registry would bring to an end a 1000 yrs of secrecy shrouding who owns England, & enable scrutiny of what goes on behind the barbed-wire fences that crisscross the countryside." [1% of the population own half of England]" https://t.co/G8cmjcmKjf

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"It was that collusion between regulator and water industry"

Robert Forrester was an Environment Agency whistleblower who is portrayed in Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' #GMB