Carla Davis

Countryside Ranger, lover of all things natural history, Green Flag Judge, wanders Essex & beyond 💙🐛🪲🦅🐍🇪🇺

[Carla Davis @callacola]

Corn bunting back at Gosbeck’s Archaeological Park 🥳 singing male near the theatre

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

More detail on the missing White-tailed Eagle in south Scotland.

Press release from Police Scotland ⬇️⬇️

https://t.co/fdbbB5WXej

[Save the Middlewick Ranges🍃💚🍃 @SaveRanges]

https://t.co/5YgnbpUcNp
@davidattenburro @EssexWildlife @CommunityPlann1 @NaturalEngland @Natures_Voice @greenbeltsal @TheGazette @CoalspoilFungi @Stjohnsfieldsra @BBCEssex @itvanglia @patrick_barkham @paulpowlesland

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on 🌍 yet a 🧱is too much of a stretch for Labour to save our swifts.This symbolic 🎥 is for those who care that the existence of swifts is on the line.I hate campaigning but I’ll never give up on the birds.If you care,share🙏

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Don't forget to email your MP urgently about the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.

Rather than re-invent the wheel, here is the excellent @WildlifeTrusts template: https://t.co/1xKoyXiQOV

23,000 people have already done this. It's quick, easy and essential.

@CommunityPlann1

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Extending planning permissions without updating ecological surveys risks destroying habitats that have changed since approval.

Nature moves faster than the legal system.

#Planning #Biodiversity

Full text 👉 https://t.co/CAPvaQ08WV

[UNISON Local Government @UNISONinLG]

Activists – join us for the tackling the council funding crisis webinar, covering UNISON’s latest research on the local government funding challenges and how we can help tackle the crisis.

🗓️ Tuesday 4 November
⏰ 12.30pm
📍Register now: https://t.co/gkEL36v2Nd

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

🐧 15 Gentoo penguins are trapped underground right now in the basement of SEA LIFE London.
Kept in artificial ice, bright lights, and the constant noise of tourists, all for profit.

Freedom for Animals, with support from Born Free, Chris Packham, Dale Vince and Feargal Sharkey, is holding a protest outside SEA LIFE London on Sunday 19th October at 10.30am.

Protect the Wild will be there.
Will you stand with us for the penguins?

[Eat Sleep Bird Repeat @ESBR_Essex]

Looking forward to leading a @SwallowBirding Topsail Charter Thames Barge trip with @richardallenart on Saturday. A 2-hour sail from Maldon, followed by a walk along the prom to look for waders, waterbirds & more! Click the pic to book your place https://t.co/UBMihP9b22

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

I wrote this yesterday in response to Zia Yusuf's lie that Farage was having to pay a million pounds for private security.

Why has Nigel Farage not entered a single pound in declared interests since May?

Today, I've gone through Nigel Farage's officially declared Register of Interests on the @UKParliament website.

In the last three months, we are being led to believe that Nigel Farage has ceased all outside earnings and donations.

Of course, this is not true. He is absolutely raking it in from multiple sources but, it seems, has just given up on reporting this income.

At the very least, we should be seeing his GB News salary and his social media income, but nope, nothing.

We know he travelled to Washington to appear at the House Judiciary Committee. Did he pay for that himself? Highly unlikely.

Something very strange is happening here. An elected MP with some serious questions over his finances, is, it appears, trying to hoodwink UK voters.

The Register is updated fortnightly, and MPs must register new additions or changes within 28 days of that occurrence. At the very least, Farage has missed two months worth of declarations.

Averaging out the previous 10 months and if we're being kind to say it's only two months missing, that works out at £177,690.78 undeclared income. Not a paltry sum to have 'mislaid'.

As a rule, an MP should be made to correct the register and make an apology if they are found to be in breach. Boris Johnson was a prime culprit for this and even had to attend remedial training as a punishment.

Look at my spreadsheet below, and you can see that there are big bunches of declarations in April but then, aside from one GB News payment, everything stops.

One image is a wide view of all of his interests, and the second is a closer look at where the payments halt.

What is going on here @ElectoralCommUK?

Why is this being allowed to run unchecked? Is there an investigation that we're not party to? Or is Farage really actually above the law?

It's bizarre and has the very distinct whiff of … well, you can decide what I was going to write there — I don't want to get sued!

As I wrote yesterday — Farage is not declaring his income.

Please feel free to tag anyone you think may be interested below.

[Natural England @NaturalEngland]

The Nature Returns Summary Report 2025 is now live.

It shows how restoring nature can help us meet Net Zero, enhance biodiversity, and deliver real benefits for communities and landscapes.

Find out more: https://t.co/RaDQjyZZBM
@envagency @wakehurst_kew @forestrycomm

[Carla Davis @callacola]

I just supported this case! https://t.co/uKUTOnPKeX via @CrowdJustice

[RCCE @RCCEssex]

Nature Recovery in Essex
📅 Sat 13 Sept | 🕘 9AM–3PM
📍Hatfield Peverel Village Hall
Join RCCE’s flagship event on biodiversity & community planning!
🎤 Inspiring speakers
🧠 Workshops
🍽️ Buffet lunch
🎟️ £35/£75 📲 Book: https://t.co/DKFtH1BdLM
🌍 Tag your parish & eco friends!

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

One @yourcolchester officer & a councillor
@communitydk1953 have been sneaking around secretly submitting 24,000-home 'West Tey' to the government's New Towns Taskforce. Seriously stupid & undemocratic thing to do!:
https://t.co/9vPl5BzIMO
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[Prof Tom Cameron @ecoevoenviro]

Our final @BritishEcolSoc England Policy Group reporting on the work we have done on Public Access and #Nature Recovery is now out - this was a great but large piece work undertaken by volunteers - see what you think and engage here and 🔵🌃 https://t.co/4eSAu9yRje

[Essex Birdwatching Society @EBwSTweets]

IRONWORKS MEADOW NATURE RESERVE FIRE RECOVERY APPEAL
On 14th July, a devastating wildfire ripped through the Ironworks Meadow Nature Reserve in Heybridge. You can help this wonderful local site recover by visiting their GoFundMe page at https://t.co/3Pf6QVvK7Y
@EssexBirdNews

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

My petition to the UK Government for full transparency on the impacts of 86 deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales has finally been approved.
I urge people across the UK to sign and share this petition as widely as possible.
This is hugely important for the future of your communities, your property rights, your land, your towns, your cities, your councils, your citizenship rights, your collective sovereignty, for rejoining the EU, and the use of your taxes to fund corporations like US Blackrock, who pay zero taxes in free zones for 10 years.
The UK's 86 deregulated free zones are licensed for a quarter of a century, and are embedded with secondary legislation, meaning zero Parliamentary and public scrutiny.
This is in your hands now.
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts https://t.co/aH1mgtUni6

[Dedham Vale National Landscape @DedhamValeNL]

The Suffolk Tree Guard Recycling Hub is back in 2025! ♻️

The Woodland Trust are calling on landowners to help tackle plastic pollution in woodlands by collecting their used tree guards to be recycled for FREE

Find out more 👇

[Essex Birdwatching Society @EBwSTweets]

At this time of year, please take care when you're walking through fields and meadows and always keep to designated paths. Ground-nesting birds such as the red-listed Skylark in this photo are easily disturbed and their nests can be destroyed so please be careful @EssexBirdNews