If anyone lives in or near Beckenham may I invite you to this event at the fabulous new Books in the Park Festival Festival? And hopefully afterwards for tea in the sunshine ? :-)

War crimes by both Hamas and Israel must be condemned for what they are: disgusting outrages against humanity.

But refusals to contextualise either fit into a LONG history of justifying racist, supremacist colonial subjugation.

Let's look at some examples, particularly Ireland.

It's hard to think about anything except the Middle East isn't it?

A lone wolf in a Swiss woodland, filmed by a friend of a friend. Our fear of wolves is completely absurd. Wolves play a vital role in our ecosystems and we should welcome them back with open arms across Europe and in Britain.

Ivy doesn't kill trees. Leave it the **** alone.

My local NHS GP surgery has 11 doctors & 11 of them are women. In one generation. I remember when people would refuse to see a woman doctor. Where are all the male doctors? Are they all working privately? #NHS75

Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits.

A bit concerning, don’t you think?

100 NEW oil & gas licences?? Is our government utterly mad? Did they not study science at school? Do they think the IPCC are wrong or that it somehow doesn't apply to them for some reason? This is definitely fair comment from Just Stop Oil

Just some of the many reasons to let #Ragwort grow in your #garden . #WildlifeGarden 👇🐛🦋🐝

Well done Paul Powlesland

I've signed this new petition against #shitlawns

Please have a look and decide for yourself whether you can too. Thanks.

Petition: Prohibit the Sale, Purchase, Deployment, and Use of Artificial Grass Products petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6331…

Chris Packham Ruth Tingay Team4Nature…

'It could scarcely be more screwed up.

The effort to protect Earth systems and the human systems that depend on them is led by people working at the margins with tiny resources, while the richest + most powerful use every means at their disposal to stop them.'

A *crucial* read.

One hour to go. Can’t wait!!

We were delighted to release a family of 4 beavers NT Wallington yesterday.

Congratulations to National Trust, Five Sisters Zoo & everyone involved.

Wallington is an ideal site, where the beavers can demonstrate their ability to restore nature & provide landscape-scale benefits.

It would appear that lobbying from British Egg Industry Council and British Poultry Council has contributed to the regulatory approach to river health being watered down. The quicker we abolish the intensive chicken industry the better. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The least productive one fifth of our land produces a minuscule proportion of all the food we produce. The idea that we can’t prioritise nature recovery by farming much more gently in our national parks, on grounds of ‘food security’, is patently nonsense. telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…

Just in case anyone doesn't know where I stole that line from, my favourite poem of all time.

Could just one media figure who is against Just Stop Oil tell me what the hell we are meant to do when scientists say we may be approaching catastrophic global tipping points? Write to our MP? Anyone at all?

Environmental activists have tried everything else. I admire this man. The courage it must take. #Juststopoil are trying to wake us up. theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

My 15 yo daughter’s work experience went wonky this week so I’ve been teaching her how images of nature improve mental health, due to fractal patterns alleviating stress levels the release of dopamine when we look at something beautiful.
She made this photo for you: