'If Shropshire Council was the Titanic, the NWRR would be the iceberg' 🧊🛳 Huge risk of #bankruptcy ahoy! Guess who has bagged all the lifeboats? #Shrewsbury #No2NWRR Adam Green ClareAshford
Mark Elliott Cllr Julia Buckley Daniel Kawczynski MP David Vasmer
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How we use our land without damage is explored today at the BES Policy #LandUseSummit . The multifunctional value of floodplain meadows & the work of Floodplain Meadows is on display as part of the conversation of the role of ecologists with land use. bit.ly/3xDvEgm

This will be great, don't miss the chance to join this free webinar with Floodplain Meadows

If you fancy a trip out to browse a fine selection of plants (& maybe buy a few), have a cuppa & a slice of cake, and have a natter with like minded green fingered folk then Bayston Hill this Saturday 12-3 is where you need to be. #gardening #plants

Yesterday Wild Justice won another legal battle for nature: DEFRA unlawfully issued gamebird licences near protected wildlife sites last year.

Support Wild Justice's remarkable work at: givewheel.com/fundraising/25…

Only TWO DAYS to go until the Regent's Canal walk!

Enjoyed starting a YouTube channel describing concepts in conservation. Have ideas for future videos but welcome suggestions of something interesting that illustrates a general issue. Also welcome ideas for getting this known by those who would benefit.
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In the latest development, Kew Herbarium is set to move its valuable specimens and dedicated science staff. Trustees have given the green light to the relocation near Reading. Let's continue to rally behind the #saveKewHerbarium movement to stop this move. #taxonomy #curation

Two contrasting ancient woodland indicators with fascinating vernacular names - toothwort or ‘corpse-flower’ and herb paris or ‘true-lover’s knot’ - an Englishman’s Flora has the details! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #ancientwoodland

1824: With rising numbers falling into poverty, the Vagrancy Act makes it a criminal offence to sleep rough or beg.

2024: The Criminal Justice Bill introduces powers to fine, move on or imprison those “intending” to sleep rough or having the “appearance” of having slept rough or

First draft! Excited to show this to some farmers at my 1st dung beetle event next week. Important to get input from the beginning on how easy it is to use and what farmers need to know! #farming #livestock #entomology #coleoptera #beetles #dungbeetles #teambeetle Rothamsted Research

Thanks for the mini-review. Anyone who wants to find out more, ask in your friendly local bookshop, or you can buy from publisher Unbound
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Bioscience undergraduates - what are your summer plans? We are offering 8-10 week paid #planthealth summer studentships in labs, fields and gardens across England and Scotland.

🗓️ Applications close 21 April 2024
🔗 Find out more: rsb.org.uk/PHUGS

Join our #BuglifeScotland Species on the Edge Conservation Officer, Sally, for a Short-necked Oil Beetle ID workshop & field visit!

📆 Monday 29 April
🕙 10:00-12:00
📌 RSPB Loch Gruinart, #Islay

Find out more & book your place
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#OilBeetleHunt #SotE

Leak of silage effluent caused dissolved O2 levels to drop to <12%. That will have killed all animal life in the Fivehead river.

When EA turned up, Farmer denied it was anything to do with him, blaming leak on human sewage.

Farmer fined... £228.

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MAJOR Milestone Impending! 🚨

We're getting very close to the halfway mark on our Digitisation Project having almost digitised 4m specimens, & we couldn't be more excited! 😍

You can now help us immortalise our collection by volunteering or donating 👉 ow.ly/yu7J50RaJQg

I've started so I'll finish... Isn't it time we had botany as a specialist subject on Mastermind ? Well, now's your chance, BBC2 is seeking contenders for the next series & applications close Friday 10 May, open to UK residents 18 or over, apply here: eu.castitreach.com/ag/hattrick/ma…

Feargal Sharkey Environment Agency In Shropshire the EA has been instrumental in raising concerns about a new road that could permanently wreck the water borehole that #Shrewsbury (pop: 80k) relies on for drinking water. They've been hauled over the coals by our Tory MP for daring to speak out...

National Parks *ought* to be bastions of nature recovery.

Instead, they're often in worse condition for wildlife than the wider landscape, find Campaign for National Parks.

Will Rishi Sunak, @keir_starmer & Ed Davey commit the funds & reforms needed to restore these landscapes?

Delighted to announce that Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) have received £190k of HEMG funding (over 5 years) from Research England. This will be transformational and allow us to bring our collections to ever increasing audiences and researchers outside of Cambridge University

Severn Trent WON'T pay if the relief road contaminates #Shrewsbury 's drinking water.

Near bankrupt Shropshire Council CAN'T pay.

Who's left? Taxpayers... 🚱🙄

Cllr Julia Buckley Julian Dean (Cllr. Green Party) 💚 Cllr Rob Wilson 🔶 💚 Adam Green ClareAshford Adam Vaughan Damian Carrington Transport Action Network