So am I getting this right @NatureScot gamekeepers/estate owners can kill 100s of thousands of native animals each year and no requirement to keep/share any records of their killing spree? This is Scotland’s natural heritage OUR natural heritage not theirs to kill just because it was unfortunate enough to stray onto their grouse farming moor.
Gamekeepers do keep kill records to show to their employer to ensure there are enough grouse to shoot for fun but they don’t think the public have a right to see this information.
Of course they don’t as people would then realise the extent of the ecocide in Scotland.
From salmon farms pouring pesticides in the water, driven grouse shooting killing whatever they like legally or otherwise, dredging for scallops, shooting beavers because farmers want to farm right up to the river edge, Scotland just doesn’t care about its natural heritage. A national disgrace. @scotgov@scotnational@JimFairlieLogie@georgemonbiot
No mention in the King's speech of animal-welfare problems eg factory farming - the biggest polluter of rivers - nor reducing antibiotic use, banning trophy hunt imports, ending animal testing nor curbing whale & dolphin hunting. Hmm
Our prisons are overflowing , yet 5 peaceful protestors have been remanded awaiting sentences for protesting climate breakdown . . . here's a radical idea– stop jailing protestors . They're not the fire , they're raising the alarm !
Thursday @ 4pm
Southwark Crown Court
Greenpeace needs your support against Big Oil's attempt to silence us!
A SLAPP lawsuit filed by @EnergyTransfer threatens our continued existence as well as the future of all peaceful protest.
RT and ✍️ to tell corporate bullies: I am with Greenpeace https://t.co/lkMmTojMMs
In fact, existing data shows after building the NDR bats that used to be within 2.5km of the road are no longer there 🙃
Help us reach our 5,000 email target by filling in and sharing our e-action. You don't have to be in Norfolk to object 👇
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"The safest communities for people and those within which animals are protected."
Read about the 'Protect Animals. Protect People' campaign at @Naturewatch_org here 👇
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“Facing several years of imprisonment for taking part in a Zoom call – this is something I have not seen anywhere else and it is shockingly disproportionate.” UN Special Rapporteur
Brilliant report by @damiengayle on 'the UK's wildest climate trial'
https://t.co/rwriqZaoU4
Stop saying “Keir Starmer can’t do anything about Gaza.”We have really gone from “he can’t do anything he’s leader of the opposition to he can’t do anything as … prime minister.” Anyway, here’s 7 things he could do *today* 👇
1. Immediately block all arms sales to Israel and from Israel to Britain; release present and historic FCDO legal advice.
2. Immediately restore funding to UNRWA, while also scaling it up.
3. Issue a public statement supporting ICC process and implementation of ICJ measures.
4. Fully commit to using Britains place as a P5 state on UNSC to push for a ceasefire alongside deployment of UN Peacekeepers when reached.
5. Issue sanctions against those in the chain of command for IHL breaches
6. Demand aid blockages are removed. If aid blockages are not removed set in motion escalatory steps, from further sanctions to a trade embargo
7. Launch an independent inquiry into the previous governments compliance with the humanitarian law with a commitment to issue arrests where grave breaches are found.
One of the reasons people voted for Labour was their promise to end the badger cull.
And yet here we are still fighting for the cull to end with DEFRA Minister @SteveReedMP confirming existing badger culling won't be stopped.
Disappointing to say the least.
⚖️ All defendants have been found guilty by unanimous verdicts in the trial of five @JustStop_Oil protesters at Southwark Crown Court this morning.
They were accused of conspiring to cause public nuisance through their protest actions on the M25 in November 2022. In remarks at the end of the trial, Judge Christopher Hehir made his personal views very clear, congratulating the jury, and describing climate concern as "single issue fanaticism". Earlier in the trial he had ordered the arrest of @DefendOurJuries supporters who sat quietly outside the court with banners proclaiming "Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth".
Today he backed down and dropped that charge. Sentencing for the five will take place next Thursday 18th, and the judge has indicated he will be delivering 'very long' prison sentences.
The trial was observed last week by Michel Forst, a UN Special Rapporteur deeply concerned over the persecution of climate protesters, pictured standing with the five defendants outside the court (courtesy of JSO).
The judge ruled out ANY defence in the trial, and repeatedly arrested defendants within the court for attempting to speak to the jury about the overwhelming evidence that humanity is facing an extreme existential crisis, and that civil disobedience is essential to achieve the changes required to mitigate.
⚠️ Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Cressida Gethin are remanded in custody.
Watch out for Real Media's full report and film coming soon.
Before the election: 'Labour will end the badger cull'
After the election: 'We will not scrap existing cull licences'
Pro badger-culling NFU President Tom Bradshaw met with Defra Secretary Steve Reed the other day.
RT if you want the badger cull to end!
So @UKLabour will be allowing the deaths of tens of thousands of badgers under licences handed out by the previous Tory Govt.
STOP THE CULL!
@SteveReedMP@euro_badger@domdyer70
BREAKING NEWS💥
ADJACENT LAND AUCTION & BADGER PROTECTION ALERT‼️
A plot of grazing land has come up for sale right next to VLM land & goes to auction in 2 weeks. It turns out, this area is in the middle of all sorts of animal abuse.😡🧵
https://t.co/FzqUQ1QZja
We'd like to say well done to John Healey MP for being appointed as the new Defence Minister.
He voted for a ban on hunting back in the day!
We're politely asking him to ban all so-called 'trail hunts' from using MoD land!
RT if you agree with us!
@JohnHealey_MP