Liz Selley

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

England won’t be England without its green and pleasant land.

Our natural heritage is worth more than oil and gas giants’ profits.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Every day now is filled with phone calls from finders of out-in-the-day hedgehogs. And they are all saying the same thing: "We brought him in, put him in a box and gave him food, he was starving."
They don't realise, but these sweet kind people have just sealed this hedgehog's fate.
Please NEVER feed a daytime wildlife casualty.
I know, it's so hard not to.
When we see a suffering animal we feel a strong, innate impulse to help, and a desire to provide immediate tangible comfort; equating food with survival and care.
Feeding feels like a direct, immediate and nurturing action to alleviate suffering.
Yet it is the most catastrophically harmful thing you could ever do.
Especially hedgehogs out in the day, who will be hypothermic.
It takes a lot of energy to digest food, energy these compromised animals just don't have spare.
Every last bit of their energy is being used to maintain vital bodily functions - to keep the heart beating, to oxygenate the organs.
Forcing energy away from these critical functions for something as non-critical as digesting food will be a death sentence.
It won't be immediate, it may take hours, or a couple of days, but eventually, no matter what the experienced rescue you later take them to tries, the animal is already on the unstoppable journey into shock, organ failure and death.
It's tragic for the casualty and heartbreaking for the rescues.
So please help in the right way.
An out-in-the-day hedgehog needs *contact* warmth, a safe indoor space away from flies, and cover to reduce their stress (please see advice below).
They are not going to die of starvation in the couple of hours between you finding them, and getting them to a rescue.😊
And please remember - any website that gives you DIY information on caring for or feeding injured or orphaned wildlife is, by default, wrong.
The ONLY right action is to get them to a good rescue (never a vet) where their complex needs can be met.
Even if you have seen this vital information before and understand it, feeding wildlife casualties is a powerful compulsion because it directly activates human instincts of empathy and compassion, often overriding the scientific advice against it.
So please remember this warning and spread it as far as you can.
Helping a wildlife casualty get to the expert treatment they need is an incredibly kind, altruistic act of great humanity.
Just remember to provide them with what they need, not what you need.🥰

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

“Sea Link” sounds benign. But at its landing point on Minster Marshes (Kent) it will cause habitat and species devastation. National Grid was asked to look at alternatives but ploughed ahead. The Secretary of State approved it last week.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Matt Ridley demonising badgers again. Yes they predate on hedgehogs on occasions, but that is not a key factor in their huge decline. It’s the pesticides & industrial agricultural systems that Matt Ridley so strongly supports along with death on the roads & fenced gardens that have cause huge suffering & death to hedgehogs. Humans not badgers are to blame

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

The real horror of Halloween.
Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them.
If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door:
https://t.co/UR38BcmGtq
The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals.
When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now.
Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The videos emerging from Africa of Islamists slaughtering Christians are truly satanic.

I have seen a video of Jihadists cutting the limbs off young Christian men and women before beheading them.

I genuinely don't understand why nobody is talking about this.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments
And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki
https://t.co/smpJX9hPR2

[Alfons López Tena 🦇 @alfonslopeztena]

Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated 250,000 trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone, the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre
https://t.co/FK2Y9CA7YS

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This is what we've come to.

A retired couple had to spend £1m of their own money taking both the @EnvAgency and @NaturalEngland to the High Court simply to force both of these charlatans to do their job, safeguard one of our nation's most legally heavily protected bits of countryside.

And the environment charities does what exactly?

https://t.co/TmLhlRyN4X

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

This is heartbreaking 😭

Fires are destroying forests in Borneo and orangutans are being left with nowhere to go.

They’re wandering aimlessly in search of food as their habitat disappears around them.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Speak to any hard-bitten older farmer around me in Somerset, or anywhere in Britain, and they will tell you that they grew up among fields teeming with corncrakes, grass snakes, hares, hedges full of yellowhammers and other songbirds, car windscreens splattered with bugs after the shortest summer drive, nearly all now gone. 98% of wildflowers, gone. Huge shoals of herring, cod, and other fish in the sea, a distant memory. Across almost every indicator, the losses during just one human lifetime have been catastrophic. The data is all there, as are the anecdotes. Britain is among the most nature-depleted countries on earth.

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

When "growth" is measured only by GDP we all lose out.

Wild birds are disappearing because a system built on greed doesn't value ecosystems that sustain life.

Birdsong falls silent. BlackRock profits.

We should measure progress by what actually makes our lives better.

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Oh I’m shocked and surprised… said absolutely no one

We just turned away thousands of farmers who wanted long promised funding to do their bit to make it better

It’s going to get worse
Way worse
As I’ve been saying for years

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

The truth is we don’t remotely care as a country… this stuff isn’t even taken seriously by senior politicians

The funding Rachel Reeves cut for farmers?
That was largely for nature restoration

Instead they pretended it was farm subsidies
Bad mouthed us
And took loads away

[Richard D Gregory @RichDGregory3]

‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say 🐦
https://t.co/Hz8cARf2VC

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Well, this is depressing. @KemiBadenoch I think you may have misunderstood that voters want greater protections for nature and the environment?

https://t.co/dBNdFlgOpI

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The mass slaughter of migrating birds across the Mediterranean each spring and autumn, for no reason other than kicks, is ecocide on a massive scale. The men who do this are perverts. Shame, shame on Egypt (Lebanon, Malta, etc.)

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

🚨 SHOCKING: Online footage today shows Poachers in Arida, #Lebanon using HEAVY MACHINE GUNS to slaughter migratory storks near homes & highways.

Firing military grade weapons at defenseless birds is an outright crime!!!

Authorities MUST enforce the law & stop these massacres.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Developers are being told they can now pay to trash and override environmental legal protections.

Why are the big environment charities being so silent? 👇👇👇

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

‼️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿LARBERT DATA CENTRE EMBARRASSING DEBACLE

More than 7,300 people signed a petition against it.

More than 7,000 formally objected.

On Wednesday night, Falkirk Council finally held its pre-determination hearing on Apatura’s 300MW AI data centre proposal for Larbert the same night MSPs at Holyrood were voting on a national data centre moratorium.

The hearing itself had to be adjourned for an hour because of audio problems.

When it resumed, more than 100 local residents and around 10 Apatura representatives were in the room (Inkl, 17 September 2026).

The site sits beside Glenbervie Care Home, home to 56 residents, some dependent on tracheostomies, mechanical ventilation, piped oxygen and medical suction.

JM, a resident with advanced multiple sclerosis, told councillors she wanted the final period of her life to remain peaceful not disrupted by machinery, traffic, construction and plant noise.

Audience members were seen wiping away tears.

The developers, the report says, could barely make eye contact with her (Inkl, 17 September 2026).

Apatura was given ten minutes to respond to hours of community testimony.

As they left, six security guards formed a wall in front of them.

This is the same application whose planning documents disclose 200 backup diesel generators, combined potential capacity of 640MW more than double the data centre’s own 300MW demand.

Routine testing alone would emit 288 tonnes of NOx a year, more than Shell’s Mossmorran plant in Fife, placing it among Scotland’s top ten NOx emitters.

In a worst-case outage scenario, neighbours could face nitrogen dioxide levels 11 to 44 times the healthy hourly limit (APRS, 18 June 2026).

No vote was taken on the night it wasn’t that kind of hearing.

As one report put it, the decision “now lies on the heavy shoulders of just a handful of councillors” (Inkl, 17 September 2026).

No determination date has been confirmed.

This is what “pause, don’t ban” looks like on the ground, the night after Holyrood chose guidance over a moratorium.
@JohnSwinney @Ross_Greer

Sources: Inkl, APRS, Falkirk Herald, Falkirk Council committee agenda