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Natural Optimist: #GoodAncestor? Champion of #Steppe & #Freshwater in #Kazakhstan & naturally #GenerationRestoration! My views are all my own

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."

And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.

https://t.co/ReGvCOqqOm

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

After the dams came down on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe didn't wait for nature to fix itself.

For decades, four hydroelectric dams turned a living river into stagnant reservoirs. They blocked salmon and steelhead from 400 miles of spawning grounds, fueled toxic algae blooms, and raised water temperatures past what the fish could survive.

When the last dam came down in late 2024, the river ran free again. But the exposed reservoir beds, 2,200 acres of bare sediment, were unstable and wide open to invasive species.

So the Yurok Tribe got to work. Along a 38-mile stretch, tribal crews hand-sowed billions of native plant seeds, planted 76,000 trees and shrubs, and seeded 28,000 acorns.

Nearly 100 native plant species. All by hand. All from seeds collected locally and grown out specifically for the restoration.

It's already working. Salmon are spawning in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century. Lupines and willows are stabilizing the banks. The river is breathing again.

The Klamath is now the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, and the people doing the heaviest lifting are the ones who have lived along that river for thousands of years.

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

One of the UK’s longest standing and most successful funds for protecting nature around the world is facing drastic cuts https://t.co/2rrGvzI6jF

[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

[Question Mark @markday331]

@angelosalsi1 @LIFEprogramme This is the single most powerful, durable, and impactful funding mechanism existing in the nature and climate space for civil society, private sector and state actors

How could something of such value ever be called into question!?

[Angelo Salsi @angelosalsi1]

Dear friends we need your help to get this petition moving. If you think it is worth saving @LIFEProgramme repost this message on all socials and ask others to repost. A like is always welcome, but we now need thousands of reposts. 🙏

https://t.co/1ZQQlIJfMO

[American Rivers @americanrivers]

The removal of the aging, obsolete low head Ramseur dam opened over three main stem river miles of North Carolina's Deep River for aquatic wildlife, expanded outdoor recreation, and permanently protected 27 acres of natural floodplains.

🔗 Read Ramseur's dam removal story: https://t.co/KyLpsaoz1L

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Everyone's worried about honeybees, but the American bumblebee has declined by 89% in the last 20 years.

Bombus pensylvanicus was once the most common bumblebee in the southern United States. It's now functionally extinct in eight states (Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon) and down 99% in New York.

The honeybee, the species most "save the bees" campaigns are organized around, is not native to North America. It was brought over by European colonists in the 1600s as livestock for honey production. It is managed, bred, transported across the country in trucks, and is doing fine. Beekeeping is an agricultural industry, not a conservation effort.

The American bumblebee is what we actually have. It pollinates wild plants honeybees can't, including ones with deep flowers and ones that require buzz pollination (a technique honeybees don't perform). Tomatoes, blueberries, eggplants, cranberries, and countless wildflowers depend on it.

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to list the species as endangered in 2021. The federal review is now in its fifth year. The species is still not protected.

Three things help.

1. Plant native flowers, the kind bumblebees evolved with (asters, goldenrod, milkweed, native sunflowers, beebalm, mountain mint).

2. Leave standing dead plant stems through winter, that's where queens overwinter.

3. Stop spraying for mosquitoes, those sprays kill every pollinator they touch.

The bees we built an industry to "save" are not the bees that need saving. The ones that do are quietly disappearing while we celebrate the ones that aren't.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Need a fence? What you really need is a deadhedge.

It's a barrier made of dead branches stacked between two rows of posts. You feed it with branches, fallen limbs, and woody yard debris. Over a season it becomes denser than most commercial fencing. Over years, the bottom layers compost down and the top gets refilled with whatever you trim that week.

Wrens, robins, and ground-foraging birds nest in the structure. Hedgehogs, field mice, frogs, and toads shelter in the base. Solitary bees, ladybirds, and beetles overwinter in the cavities.

Germany has been planting deadhedges as wildlife corridors since the 1990s. The UK uses them for riverbank restoration.

A wood fence costs thousands of dollars and supports no wildlife. A deadhedge costs nothing, gets denser every year, and provides habitat for dozens of species you want in your yard anyway.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

‘Meet the philanthropists laying out millions to rewild the planet’

Some of the greatest acts of philanthropy have been the acquisition of land for restoration and protection forever

Large or small, it’s just the best thing someone with resources can do. https://t.co/vvThkLcvWZ

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this.

Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.

[American Rivers @americanrivers]

🐠 #WorldFishMigrationDay reminds us that free-flowing rivers are lifelines for fish. Few things have such a fundamental impact on river wildlife as a dam. Outdated and obsolete dams block fish from reaching their spawning grounds, raise water temperatures, reduce oxygen, and fragment ecosystems.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

@SheffCouncil why you spraying Sheffield streets with pesticides? Im HORRIFIED to see GLYPHOSATE sprayed on our streets by a Council worker. Cities across UK and Europe have banned it. It kills wildlife, is a health risk, cats and dogs can get very sick BAN IT NOW! @_OliviaBlake

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The next time some tells you that the regulators, the EA and Ofwat don't have the power call them out on it, it's a lie.

One example right here... 👇👇👇 don't accept the lie, don't accept the fraud, enforce the law.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

He’s trying to bury his tax returns just like he’s trying to bury the Epstein Files.

This is the most obscenely corrupt and morally bankrupt administration in American history. And it’s not even close.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund—

Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

This is an unprecedented level of corruption.

Trump is forcing the government to drop ALL tax audits of him, his family, and his businesses—giving him FULL IMMUNITY from prosecution.

What is Trump hiding from the American people?

Congress must step up and stop this corruption.