Canopy

The New National Coalition of Tree Campaigners.

Umbrella organisation for groups and individuals trying to save trees and green spaces in the UK.

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[Canopy @canopyorguk]

Welcome to Canopy!

We are the national coalition of tree campaigners! An umbrella organisation for grassroots campaign groups and individuals.

Sign up to add your voice and get in touch to join our monthly online meetings.

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[Canopy @canopyorguk]

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[Canopy @canopyorguk]

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[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Rights of Nature must be breaking through to the mainstream, as here we have a commentator in the Financial Times being deployed in a lame attempt to mock the concept using hackneyed straw man arguments.

No @FinancialTimes, rivers or any other part of nature wouldn’t be given the same rights as humans, that would be silly. Nature has different needs & would therefore receive different rights.

No @FinancialTimes, it’s not ridiculous for rivers or any non-human to have ‘legal personality’. Your entire worldview is based on be idea of companies (entirely fictitious entities we just made up in the 19th century) having legal personality. At least my river actually exists.

No @FinancialTimes, entirely human-centred laws & regulations won’t be enough to save our rivers. We’ve had those for the last 60 years & they have clearly failed to even stop raw sewage entering our rivers, let alone restoring them to full ecological health & beauty.

No @FinancialTimes, having a moral, philosophical worldview to back up political arguments is “cockeyed”, it’s what every great political shift and extension of rights has had, from the abolition of the slave trade, to universal suffrage & votes for women, to animal rights.

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

Bravo @HerefordshireWT & @toby_wildlife for showing the worth of traditional orchards. Here in Cambs we are lucky to have Coton Orchard, similarly recognised by @wildlifebcn, yet @CambsCC would drive a busway through it. If we care for such places, we must defend them ✊🏻🤨🌳🚌❌ ✏️ https://t.co/v8AMlb7srl

[SallyN🍃💚🍃🦇🦇🦎🦎 @SallyN69461571]

The Judge said (Para 173 of the #Heybeck Judgement):
'There was a serious want of transparency in the period leading to the decision challenged, while the developer and the LPA were negotiating with each other and shielding the product of their negotiations from the public'

[SaveChesterSouthend @ChesterPlane]

Echo today. 🌳❤
#SaveChester #SaveOurTrees #Southend #Essex #EchoNews #SouthendCityCouncil #SKArchitects #Trees #Nature #Biodiversity #Climate #UrbanGreenSpace #HumanRights
@canopyorguk @MFeriaTinta @TheStreetTree @TreesforStreets @ChrisGPackham @thetreehunter @paulpowlesland

[Canopy @canopyorguk]

This is horrifying.

The government are so set on the Heathrow second run way that they don't care how what they are doing will impact on other things.

Lobbyists are running this country.

https://t.co/AOC4Mf2F7N

[Canopy @canopyorguk]

@RosieP4 @saveourwolds1 It's horrifying

[Canopy @canopyorguk]

Fantastic news!

Street trees are so important and much loved by residents 💚

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

So, with a massive 27% of the over 30,000 votes cast, this is officially the Woodland Trust Tree of the Year for 2025! Thanks to the thousands of you who voted for it.

Cont./

#glasgow #treeoftheyear #woodlandtrust #tree #argylestreetashtree

[Canopy @canopyorguk]

Terrible news from this campaign

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[Canopy @canopyorguk]

https://t.co/zyA031TZoA

[Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) @SayNo2SizewellC]

"It's devastating to watch what's happening here"
More Sizewell C destruction- please share
100yr+ old oaks are about to be felled by Sizewell C, this time along the B1125. Good to see Radio Suffolk taking an interest in local worries Listen at 1.39-1.47 https://t.co/6oKt2UEnhT

[Canopy @canopyorguk]

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[Canopy @canopyorguk]

Congratulations!

[Chidswell Action Group 🍃💚🍃🦎🦇🦎🦇 @ChidswellGroup]

We did it! Planning Permission quashed. A victory to inspire all local campaign groups fighting to protect wildlife habitat. A reckless approach to planning policy has resulted in Permission being overturned @CommunityPlann1
@ChrisGPackham @CarlBovisNature
https://t.co/bqErI128Se

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

A decade lost, £millions squandered, and now the final 1.6 miles. Whether turtle doves and martins have a home to return to next spring – and whether we leave a liveable planet for the next generation – hangs on the Public Inquiry starting *16th September 2025* and the final decision of @Heidi_Labour.

This will set a precedent for how our county grows, consequences rippling across the landscape.

If you haven’t yet added your name to the 23,000-strong petition, now is the time. If you have, share it widely. Challenge the untruths. Speak up. Bear witness at the inquiry. Support @CambridgePPF + @CotonBusway, and remember the human, weary people behind these profiles.

And to the press, who have been brilliant so far: shine your light even brighter. Do not let this pass in the shadows @thetimes @adamvaughan_uk @guardian @horton_official @patrick_barkham @PaddyGalbraith @PrivateEyeNews

All the info you need can be found here 👉 https://t.co/vcj56mEKxk

Thank you for helping #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌

[Green is a mission @Greenisamissio1]

Night thoughts

When the sun burns, there is no difference between human and animal, everyone gladly accepts the shade of a tree.💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

[Canopy @canopyorguk]

Our next Canopy Zoom meeting is tomorrow at 6pm! We will be hearing updates on members' campaigns.

Email if you would like the link which is going out later today.

[email protected]

[Save Wimbledon Park @SaveWimbldnPark]

🚨 Important Update: Save Wimbledon Park Ltd has applied for permission to appeal the recent High Court decision about the AELTC Wimbledon Park Project. Support our cause by sharing this news! Read more: https://t.co/3IIsQvry9Y #SWP #WimbledonPark #CourtAppeal

[Martin Rands @martr101.bsky.soc @martr101]

#BalticWharf has only nine hardstanding caravan pitches. This is badly-needed harbourside greenspace, NOT brownfield. The site will cost £45,000 to clear, not £2.4 million for brownfield decontamination. The grant from Brownfield Land Release fund looks well dodgy.

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

The County has spent £18m+ to defend the GCP route for the CtoC busway. Their “proof of evidence” is now online. Under “interested parties” you’ll find experts and residents who unravel the spin 👉 https://t.co/rBngDv7jKf