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With a very heavy heart and a reluctant shout out for help, I'm sorry to announce that from our eighteenth issue, if sales don't improve @ButchersDogMag, we can no longer stay in print.
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Despite promises, @HS2ltd won't be able to fix the damage done to nature. Unless nature loss is accurately calculated, far too much of our natural world will be destroyed.
Sign on to our letter to the Government, insisting HS2 remaps ✒️ https://t.co/SAbVKVGEIb @David_Oakes
There isn't very long left to submit some unpublished poems for inclusion in our forthcoming Spring issue.
Free to send via Submittable. Deadline: Jan 15th. Go on, what are you waiting for? 🐾
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Legislation will be published today with powers to amend/scrap 100s of environment laws.
DEFRA has more EU retained laws than any other Dept, covering #wildlife, water, air & chemicals.
Scrapping them would be legislative vandalism. Rewriting them would pose unacceptable delay.
We face an urgent nature and climate crisis. But instead of a plan for nature's recovery on land and at sea, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at risk. But what does this mean exactly? (1/12)
There are many different career opportunities available at our Trust. Currently we have exciting roles for a Wilder Communities Manager, Conservation Officers and a Pond Projects Officers.
We're flexible and we welcome everyone. Find out more at https://t.co/N6dnSygBWN
Can you believe we launch Wagtail this Sunday? Pre-order a copy of The Roma Women's Poetry Anthology and get free entry to our Zoom reading. https://t.co/eeGOPzjLhj
p.s. Want to see more themed anthologies from the Dog? Please support our very first! 🐾
Word of the day (again) is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): a follower of the political wind; one whose actions are guided entirely by the whims and desires of their boss.
Climate marches across the UK sent a message to the #COP26 summit today - we were in Cambridge where the atmosphere was fantastic and thousands of people turned out!
@WildlifeTrusts
@BorisJohnson Hello Boris. Weights and Measures Inspector here. Sorry to dispel your latest bit of kite flying.
1. The UK transferring to metric measures had bugger all to do with our EU membership. (1)
⚡️NEWSFLASH FOR NATURE ⚡️@DefraGovUK have listened to the 208,000+ people who signed our #StateofNature petition. A binding nature recovery target will be put in law which should see more 🦉🐝🦋 & other wildlife in years to come. Thank you to all who have won this for nature!
@BBCWomansHour@title_free@Cambridge_Uni I have always been Ms since my feminist dad took me as a kid to open my first building society account. It never had the connotation of widower or anything else to me, just a defiant non-Miss or Mrs.