St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃

We have united to oppose the building of 2000 houses on local farmland fields, which would put a huge strain on the environment (inc an SSSI), roads & services.

[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 👏.

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

🌲Kew warns climate change is killing trees, echoing what we heard in our adaptation inquiry. As the heatwave shows, trees are vital infrastructure for cooling, so adapting nature to extreme weather is essential.🌲
https://t.co/kV55uNMMrB

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

@CarlBovisNature @exitthelemming @ChrisGPackham @DeborahMeaden @MeganMcCubbin @Lucy_Lapwing @DrAmirKhanGP @CityCorpHeath @BBCLondonNews @sophiepavs @WildlifeTrusts Yes! Human encroachment like this can be very damaging for nature. It’s incredibly thoughtless.

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

This new Wildlife-Rich Habitat Fund unveiled by the government. Token schemes like this are pointless. Wildlife can't flourish in isolated pockets, especially when its "build, baby, build" policy is destroying everything else.

https://t.co/KbLY7xiwg3

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Here’s an insect eaters breakfast. We need lots more of this - flies in this morning’s sun. #insects #birdfood #bullockwoodsssi #colchester

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

@DefraGovUK @saoirse65 Perhaps we could start by not building on or intrusively beside the important habitats we already have! (Eg Bullock Wood SSSI, Salary Brook valley and Welshwood Nature Reserve) - oh and grade 2 farmland.

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

British pollinators. What a workforce ! Without this amazing team there would be no gardens or food for that matter. We must do our best to look after them, teach our kids they are friends and build habitats to show them how loved they really are.

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

“Old Lonesome” in the early morning sun today. It must be wondering why the summers are getting so much hotter. #nature #colchester #oaktree #greenspaces

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

@CarlBovisNature @greenbeltsal Super photo and no, sadly there haven’t been any sightings here as yet. We keep looking out for them.

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Just a few poppies - but don’t they brighten a day! #poppies #stjohnsfields #colchester

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

Speaking of YIMBYism, I wrote to Steve Reed after developers paid £2,000 a head for curry night seats.

Homeless kids can’t pay to be within whispering distance of his ear.

That’s how inequality gets baked into our democracy. Deep pockets = more access.

Ban developer donations.

[Save the Middlewick Ranges🍃💚🍃 @SaveRanges]

Wonderful to have @1rossbirnie and members of our group filming one of our new nightingales at the crack of dawn, that has moved into the northern area of Middlewick. we call him the lidl nightingale @NgaleNights @RSPBEngland @EBwSTweets @EssexWildlife @Colch_Nature @CommunityPlann1 @Stjohnsfieldsra @davidattenburro @ChrisGPackham @Save_Rose_Hill @MeganMcCubbin @saoirse65

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

@dory_drew @saoirse65 @SaveRanges @TonyJuniper @DefenceHQ @NaturalEngland Sadly, that’s because it is a government department. Like all the rest it’s been emasculated by years of underfunding. We need something that serves nature, not a government mouthpiece. It doesn’t even bother with the SSSIs it’s already got, so hard to see the point of it.

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Please - no more housing around #BullockWoodSSSI - there is already too much negative human encroachment @NaturalEngland and it’s causing so much potential damage like this camp fire.

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

Hundreds of local people walk these fields every day and appreciate fresh air and bird song. #BullockWoodSSSI #Colchester #GreenSpaces #Nature

[Zero Hour @zero-hour.bsky.social @zerohour_uk]

🚨 The collapse of our natural world is a direct threat to the UK’s national security.

🌍 The Nature + National Security Bill is an urgent response to the emergency.

📣 Ask your MP to choose the #NNSBill in the private members’ bill ballot.

Head to 👉 https://t.co/ttdfSPsSOC

[St John's Residents Association🍃💚🍃 @Stjohnsfieldsra]

It’s lovely to see wild flowers starting to fill the space that winter left bare. #wildflowers #nature #greenspaces #colchester

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Please retweet and spread the word!
What to do when you find a grounded swift 👇

[Joanne Smith @EnviroconJo]

.@NewcastleCC This is Ilford Road, High West Jesmond. You wouldn’t listen about cutting off #wildlife corridors & this is the result. Shame on you.