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STOP THE BADGER CULL! 🦡 🌹

Narrated by @ChrisGPackham

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This is a huge victory for organisation Wild Card and all of you who campaigned tirelessly. 147,000 people signed Wild Card's petition, while almost 3,000 emails were sent to the Minister for Nature. Over 40 MPs supported an Early Day Motion for ancient woodland restoration.

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That’s almost £6 million of funding from the previous...£0! Ancient woodlands have been chopped down and are buried beneath orderly lines of conifers. Dedicated funding will be used to restore these ghost woods. Forestry England announced it will double its speed of restoration.

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Over £300,000 has gone into reintroducing three of the birds to a purpose-built, predator-proof enclosure at Willington Wetlands. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust hopes a nesting pair will act as a 'social magnet', drawing passing storks to "stop, settle, and breed".

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Have you signed the petition? https://t.co/nxzSPOVOWz

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In just four days, we'll find out whether NatureScot rejects the Guga hunt licence. Their own licensing and marine science experts have advised that no Gannet chicks should be killed this year. So the question is... how can NatureScot justify ignoring its own experts?

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This is the beginning of the end for the Guga hunt.

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GOOD TO SEE!

https://t.co/L26HrYnBnc

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The UK Government called badger culling "ineffective".
So why has Wales just put it back on the table?
They want to start what England is stopping.
Say no 🦡 https://t.co/hhTGxrnw7j

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Imagine ignoring the science? That's what reform in Wales is doing by putting a badger cull back on the table.

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The media has it wrong about Rats

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The Isles of Scilly were long exempt from UK water rules, so sewage went into the sea untreated. South West Water, responsible since 2020, must fix it by 2027. But its proposal - a longer pipe discharging waste 'screened' for solids - has caused outcry.

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The Isles of Scilly are designated a Special Area of Conservation and are surrounded by 11 different Marine Conservation Zones. The seas around the Isles of Scilly are home to puffins, seals, dolphins and even humpback whales. But untreated sewage is being pumped into the waters.

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BREAKING: Guga Hunt looks set to be REJECTED for 2026 after NatureScot internal officials recommend for the hunt not to be given a licence this summer.

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Research links cruelty to animals with a lowered barrier to violence against people.

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Trees for Life, the rewilding charity instrumental in releasing the beavers, celebrated the news. “These beaver kits symbolise a wildlife success story four centuries in the making, and how nature can recover when we give it a chance," said the charity's Tobias Leask.

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Two beavers kits have been spotted at Loch Beinn a Mheadhoin in Glen Affric, and were born in either May or June. The kits arrived after beavers were released at Glen Affric National Nature Reserve last October and again in February.

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THIS. IS. HUGE. Nature Scot's own scientific advisors say they cannot conclude the hunt would avoid harming the internationally protected gannet colony. And they have recommended the board REFUSE the licence.

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THIS IS HUGE!

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On top of this, UK data centres could be given water priority during heatwaves and hosepipe bans! It's madness.

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As the climate crisis deepens, Sadiq Khan prioritises data centres.