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[Lo @combird]

Make sustainable development practices mandatory in the UK - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/SlF2qsRomy via @UKChange

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

More than a hundred thousand Bornean orangutans vanished between 1999 and 2015. Half the island's population, gone in sixteen years, and the largest single driver is the oil in your biscuit.

Orangutans exist in exactly two places on earth now, Borneo and Sumatra, and both are being cleared at some of the fastest rates on the planet to plant oil palm. Around 350,000 hectares of Bornean forest have gone every year this century. The way it is cleared is the ugly part. The forest is not felled and milled, it is drained and burned. Developers cut channels into the peat to dry it out, then set the land alight, and peat does not burn like wood. It smoulders underground for weeks, sometimes months, throwing up a toxic haze that drifts across whole countries.

In 2015 that haze became one of the worst environmental disasters in modern memory. About 2.6 million hectares burned. On many days that autumn the fires in Indonesia released more carbon dioxide than the entire economy of the United States. A study by Harvard and Columbia estimated the smoke caused around a hundred thousand premature deaths across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, alongside half a million respiratory infections. The World Bank put the bill at sixteen billion dollars. All of it to clear ground for palm and pulp.

The animals in that forest do not walk away. The orangutan is slow, and it starves among the stumps or wanders into the new plantation looking for food and is killed as a pest. In 2018 one was found on Indonesian Borneo shot a hundred and thirty times with an air gun, then stabbed and clubbed. Mothers are killed and their babies sold into the illegal pet trade. The Sumatran tiger, the rhino and the elephant are being pushed off the same burning map at the same time, each down to a few thousand animals or a few hundred, each running out of the one forest it has.

The culprits are not hard to find. About 85% of the world's palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, and investigators have traced palm grown on illegally cleared land straight into the supply chains of the largest names in the aisle: Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Mondelez. From there it goes everywhere. Palm oil sits in something like half the packaged products in the shop, the spread, the chocolate, the biscuit, the instant noodle, the tub of dairy-free ice cream, the very things sold as the lighter, greener, kinder choice.

Almost all of it now carries a small stamp promising it was sustainably sourced. In one recent year the stretch of Sumatra known as the orangutan capital of the world lost more forest than in the previous four years combined. Stamp and all.

[Dr Jill Belch @JillBelch]

Cutting down mature trees for new developments must stop.
It’s done so more houses can be crammed into one site.
Many local examples here where their so called ‘compensatory planting’ dies
This is UK wide
We need legislation to protect our trees, @ScotGov, @GovUK

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

I am absolutely disgusted by The Daily Mail’s headline.

They didn’t “romp”. He plied her with alcohol and raped her, and she took her own life.

The headline is as disgusting as the sentencing.

[OT @olivertudge1]

Just a message to everyone telling young people to "toughen up" because you had it harder...
Fine. We'll cancel your winter fuel payments.
Toughen up. It's not that cold. Put a jumper on.

[Lo @combird]

@implausibleblog Obviously Rob had his head up his arse the whole time the Brexit debate was happening.

[Fantôme Prout 👻 💨 @JeuDecide]

Je déteste ce monde, je déteste son fonctionnement, je déteste cette civilisation. Cette planète aurait pu, aurait dû être un paradis. C'est possible de le faire mais l'humanité est si corrompue et égoïste qu'on préfère tout détruire pour avoir un peu plus que les autres.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's officially the hottest June day ever.

We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians.

We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

[HollyHox 🌈🐇🎨🌳🔭🎬 @HollHox]

PLEASE put water out for wildlife this week, and keep it topped up.

It will save lives 🦔🐀🦋🐇🐝🐸🦡🐞🐌🦇🕷️🐦‍⬛🦊

#UKHeatwave #Heatwave

[Adam Hibbert @adhib]

The £2.25bn, 13,000 employee Environment Agency has no resource available to act when illegal landfill sites are reported to it, but does have time to threaten volunteers who act to clean up its mess...

https://t.co/pqwguMNFJF

[Lo @combird]

We have a once-in-a-generation chance to change the future of dementia. Add your name now to help end the devastation.

It will take a society to beat dementia. https://t.co/95LgTwjcHG

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain has the dirtiest rivers, the most expensive energy, the least reliable trains, the most overcrowded prisons, the worst access to healthcare and the widest gap between rich and poor in all of Europe. If you want a verdict on 40 years of neoliberalism, there it is.

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

And that's the truth.

[Andrew Waddison BEM @AWPRCO]

Angry doesn’t even begin to cover it..

Today at Snettisham beach protected area for ground nesting birds including Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover…...

Signage EVERYWHERE asking for dogs on leads.

📸 Derek Bromage - Snettisham Village Facebook Page.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely don’t think people understand how insane this is.

In just 50 years, we’ve wiped out around 70% of animal populations on Earth.

Not hundreds of years ago.
Not ancient history.

In one lifetime.

Entire species disappearing.
Forests going silent.
Oceans being emptied.

And somehow the world treats it like just another statistic instead of a full-blown emergency.

That should scare all of us a lot more than it does.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Breaking: More than 700 dolphins killed in one day of Faroe Islands hunts amid equipment failures, chaotic scenes & arrest of conservation observers!

Wicked beyond belief and utterly heartbreaking
Complete blood thirsty devastation of a gentle species all in the name of tradition
#NoWords
https://t.co/Pz8nqpRSzJ

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Update on the Dartmoor ponies cull and why this has to be stopped! They go back to the ice age they should be made a protected species! Please support this ! Please listen and share! They are destroying our countryside and wildlife!

[Lo @combird]

@BardCumberland That’s fine cut them all down. I mean who needs trees anyway??!!
I despair, the destruction is accelerating. It’s like everyone is scrambling to destroy our natural world.

[Lo @combird]

@RosieP4 @noelwalker111 This is disgusting. Just know also that they are going to clear far more than is actually necessary for the space they truly require.

[Brislington Meadows @BrisMeadows]

The meadows has survived another round. The application has been REFUSED by Cllrs. We need to continue to fight to save this incredible space for good, but huge thanks to everyone who has played a part in keeping the fight alive💪🏼💕people power works!
https://t.co/pyhWi9pHEK