Timothy Heffer

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

This roadside verge reveals:
A total absence of personal responsibility
A rejection of the notion of community pride
A failure of legal enforcement against criminals
A complete embarrassment for Britain
It cannot go on. @benonwine

[Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃 @SusieTa32510601]

Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds | Housing | The Guardian

Yet @UKLabour⁩ making it easier for it’s bedfellows to build on green fields, farmland and precious, vital #wildlife habitats for more profit.
⁦ https://t.co/NM8eKODaKr

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

"Broken Pledges" from @UKLabour on nature and the environment.
Lots of really useful references 👏👇 https://t.co/AqtVkyj2Ax via @albuharg

[Craig Bennett @CraigBennett3]

BY ME @TheHouseMag @politicshome

"Don't blame the #bats, @UKLabour – you're not just damaging #nature but your own poll rating too"

#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PIB
https://t.co/PTRJQU0NUZ

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

You seriously want to do this Steve? Isn’t this you before the election promising to protect nature? Didn’t you tell @WriterHannahBT to her face that you would support swift bricks? Want to tell us why you have betrayed your constituents Steve?

Resist. ✊Protect. 🦇Restore 🌳

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And as if to prove my point, at the end of last week

"All of the nature friendly amendments [to the planning bill] have been rejected by the government."

My door is always open, always happy to talk.

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited

We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable

⚠️Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice

📩Tell Keir Starmer to act: https://t.co/nV2fl4prYu

[Beaver Trust @BeaverTrust]

The @WelshGovernment has announced plans to recognise beavers as a native species in Wales and grant them full legal protection. This welcome step brings Wales in line with Scotland & England, ensuring cross-border consistency.

Read more 👇
https://t.co/uCQOokxf7R

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Oregon increasing protections for beavers ... to help salmon, restore nature, and protect communities against wildfire, drought and flash flooding. Beavers are miracle workers.

https://t.co/PkI4wCAFmf

[Timothy Heffer @TimothyHeffer]

We are crazy - we are cutting off the branch we stand on:

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects | Insects | The Guardian https://t.co/D8JLM9C40h

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

This is the worst UK environment news in a decade.

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Demand the @GOVUK scrap the part of the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill which threatens important wildlife protections!!

✍️Take action here https://t.co/sPkjkFJmr3

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

A brick. That’s it. One hollow brick to help save a species... and apparently that’s just too woke for Westminster. With 1.5m new homes planned by 2030 there’s a massive opportunity to also create new homes for wildlife. If Labour caves on this, they’ll have abandoned common sense along with the swifts...:)

https://t.co/AwDhD5hTHJ

[Timothy Heffer @TimothyHeffer]

Failing on nature and now failing on food / health https://t.co/cyrzfE1HMs

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

I beg you, go to Abruzzo, Italy. If you have any involvement whatsoever in how our own upland national parks are managed, go and see how the Italians do it. Wildlife galore, rich scrub, flowers, woodlands, and sheep, cows and farmers. They’ve got it all. So could we, if we choose it.

[Timothy Heffer @TimothyHeffer]

Please sign this letter from the Wildlife Trusts urging the government to amend the Planning Bill so it does not facilitate the trashing of nature. https://t.co/LQzStq1LdJ

[Derek Gow @gow_derek]

Expected from the telegraph. Sheep are an ecological blight. Full of toxic chemicals, they dislocate soils which choke river-life and remove all bankside vegetation, they shear landscapes bare and destroy most other breeding wildlife from curlews to voles It's change time.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Ministers should listen to this powerful message from 32 UK nature organisations: the Planning Bill rides roughshod over nature protection laws. Nature & development can go hand in hand - but this damaging one-sided Bill is not the way to deliver it https://t.co/UledSuZM5K

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Such predictable bollocks from the Telegraph about the wildfires and sheep. Traditional land use in the British uplands has always meant extensive grazing with native cattle at low stocking densities. The tidal wave of year-round grazing by tens of millions of sheep that have engulfed and denuded our hills is a modern innovation which has not worked ecologically or economically. In fact it has been a catastrophe. Sheep should return to their rightful place as a niche interest in specific circumstances, and native cattle should once again be the predominant livestock in our uplands. That’s the formula for bringing about a beautiful recovery of nature in our most precious landscapes, and restoring fire resilience, while breathing new life back into some of our most deprived rural communities. Call it rewilding, wilder farming, nature friendly farming, whatever you like, this is the only way.

[Timothy Heffer @TimothyHeffer]

Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs https://t.co/cH6lHOyNn6