Huw Lewis

wildlife and aircraft enthusiast

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

Once Upon a Time in the West tells the story of the end of heroes.

With Sergio Leone’s masterful direction, Ennio Morricone’s unforgettable score, and some of the most beautiful imagery ever put on film, it feels less like a Western and more like a farewell to an entire era.

It's the kind of movie that gets better with age.

And that's why, nearly 60 years later, many still consider it one of the greatest films ever made.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Good morning , and an inquisitive #FoxOfTheDay today shared by Hilary Hughes , thank you Hilary !

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Gaie was forced to spend Christmas and her 79th birthday in prison, just because the government couldn't find an electronic tag that fitted 🙃

We helped Gaie get released from prison, and now we're helping her sue the Ministry of Justice 💪 Take action: https://t.co/YtZx2lRYNs

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

I'm fuming to read this! 🤬
Year in and year out this kind of crap happens in the summer, when most birds are already breeding, not just with Swifts, but with all birds! 😒
Birds and their nests are protected by law, but the law is clearly inadequate and is riddled with loopholes that councils, builders, farmers... anyone really, can exploit. 😡
Yet still some wonder why the UK is the most nature depleted place on earth...

https://t.co/q2grIPa3g5

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

En la noche de ayer, el conflicto en Líbano se saldó con cuatro ataques de mortero a la base española Miguel de Cervantes, un casco azul serbio fallecido y dos españoles heridos.

Nuestra condena más absoluta a la violencia y todo nuestro apoyo a quienes se juegan la vida por defender la paz bajo la bandera de las Naciones Unidas.

Esperamos que todas las partes cumplan íntegramente el alto al fuego anunciado ayer y que las hostilidades terminen. La paz es el único futuro.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

We're so close to 200k - sign the petition now to stop the imminent killing of Gannet chicks in Scotland!

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[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

The irony of this story is not lost on me - OFWAT, the water regulator failing so badly to hold water companies to account for their pollution of our rivers - awards £1.5m to one of them to…..try cleaning up rivers. Marvellous. I have a top tip - prevention is always better than cure - stop water companies from dumping in our rivers first, before trying to clean it up.

https://t.co/DyfWDohH6E

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Ok, the Environment Agency is really taking the mick now.

The photograph they are using below is of the Stapleford Tawney illegal waste site, next to the River Roding near Epping. They were informed about this site in February 2025, but did absolutely nothing and allowed illegal waste dumping to continue for a whole year. It was only in February 2026, when I organised a petition & got the media down to the site that they even bothered to close off the entrance & get a legal closure order.

So the EA apparently want members of the public to report serious waste crime so they can sit there & do naff all about it? Even now, they aren’t doing any testing to see if the site is contaminating ground water & the River Roding. They have also given no commitment to clearing up the site whatsoever. Will the EA agree to remove all of this rubbish that they allowed to be dumped on this site next to our river, or do they just plan to leave it there forever to rot?

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

The current protections given to bird nests in the Wildlife & Countryside Act are woefully inadequate & this story by @sandralaville is yet another reason as to why.

The law currently only protect the nests of most birds whilst those nests are in use, so nesting holes used by generations of birds like swifts can be legally destroyed outside nesting season. Even where nests are in active use, it’s hard to get evidence of their destruction & the police do not take such crimes seriously.

We need to change the law to protect the ancestral nesting hole sites of birds like swifts and sand martins when they are not in use & give serious thought to protecting the ancestral nesting habitat of birds like nightingales as well. We also need to set up & fund a proper wildlife police force that takes the destruction of active bird nests seriously.

[British Dragonfly Society @BDSdragonflies]

Glyphosate has no place in our gardens and growing spaces 🛑- so sign and share Garden Organic’s petition today to ban this dangerous herbicide for amateur and urban use 👉 https://t.co/mHwbHgXOVT.
#GrowersAgainstGlyphosate #GardenOrganic

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Andy Burnham has launched a scathing attack on 'profiteering' water companies, demanding United Utilities cancel its final dividend payment to shareholders in August."

Now there's something we could all vote for, well done @AndyBurnhamGM

Tip of the hat sir. 👏👏👏

https://t.co/mdAjIqIpPi

[Huw Lewis @huwstudy1]

Great display by Jet Pitts S2SE at the Wings and Wheels air show at Old Warden last Saturday @RichgoodwinS2S

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

A fox quadrat ? ! Shared by Karen Chignell on Facebook for your #FoxOfTheDay today

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Cardiff Morrisons praised for providing nesting seagull shelter in 30- degree heatwave ☀️

A Morrisons in Cardiff has gone viral after creating a make-shift shelter for a nesting seagull. Staff covered the mother with a bedsheet, coned off four parking spaces, and gave her fresh water and food.

The Lesser Black-backed Gull, which is said to nest in the same spot of the supermarket’s
carpark each year, is being well-looked after in this heatwave.

Well done @Morrisons 👏.

[Oxford Union @OxfordUnion]

A statement from the President, Arwa Elrayess:

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

In what lexicon is ethnically cleansing one quarter of a neighbouring state "taking a much tougher stance". Shameful complicity in war crimes by @SkyNews @adamparsons

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Catching the people illegally killing Britain's birds of prey - BBC film goes behind the scenes with RSPB Investigations team.

New blog ⬇️

https://t.co/7DXm0KB6z7

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Most recent polling shows a whopping three quarters of Scottish people with an opinion when polled, want the annual killing of Gannet chicks banned.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Watching privatised water wreck the local economy in Whitstable, while our government tells us how it would be too expensive to stop being ripped off by these rogue traders, and we need to keep the money flowing to them.

Make them pay heavy compensation for this or watch it spread.

@sewateruk @EmmaforWycombe @SOSWhitstable @RosieDuffield1

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Let's reach 200k! It's decision time for NatureScot as their board is soon to decide on whether to grant a licence for the 2026 Guga hunt.

Sign the petition: https://t.co/nxzSPOVOWz