Three-cornered leek is widely recognised as an invasive species (nonnativespecies.org/assets/Uploads…) meanwhile ⁦Islington Council⁩ treat it as a beloved wild flower and carefully mow around it. The msg is not getting through, sigh. ⁦Check Clean Dry GB⁩

While in Haggerston I took a quick detour to Kingsland Basin, a thriving haven for wildlife managed by the wonderful Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston.

Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston Chris Packham Mark Avery Ruth Tingay Wild Justice London Wildlife Trust David Mooney Every Heron 𓆀💙 A quick stop next to Mile End Park!

Kabir Kaul Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston Chris Packham Mark Avery Ruth Tingay Wild Justice London Wildlife Trust David Mooney Every Heron 𓆀💙 Sometimes they're in the wrong place, too busy admiring their reflection!

Slow Worm FOI request #Kingsmeadow

If you treat your dog or cat or rabbit with a 'spot-on' flea treatment, please read this... & please retweet to spread the word. theconversation.com/pet-flea-and-t…

April’s aquatic invert survey was a revelation. Yes, it’s great to find a caseless cadis but who knew fishes had a larval stage? Luckily we have a marine biologist amongst us who informed on this little speck of life in pic 2.
#rewildlondon
Thanks LDNMayor Environment Lewis

Every year I remove hybrids from our garden, two of the following had to be dug up to protect the native cowslip (Primula veris)

‘The idea in most countries is that gardens and parks are an antidote, not a continuum, to the order of the indoor home’ Benedict Macdonald This is so important. For some reason, we’ve started to see our outside spaces as outdoor ‘rooms’ needing clean lines & lights #ecologicalcollapse

Colleagues at Thames21 removing toeboarding from the Dollis Brook using an innovative method we're not sure is used anywhere else?! Over 200m of bank exposed now with Environment AgencySE funding, ready for deflectors and planting over the coming year. Your River Brent DollisBrookers

BREAKING ‼️‼️‼️

📢🚫💔 NCC's Dreams Crushed! Natural England Denies License for Road Construction. Game Over! 💔🚫🔚

🚧🌿 In a devastating blow to NCC's plans, Natural England has officially announced that they will not grant the license required for the construction of this

very exciting - 2 years ago I helped 11 year old Isabella start a campaign to protect the orchids on a small roundabout near her Oxford home. Now Oxford City Council have changed their mowing plans. Thank you to Chris Packham George Monbiot who helped push this out

Projects have created and improved 33 hectares of green space (that’s over 1,250 tennis courts!) and planted 25,000 trees #GrowBackGreener

Check out some of the projects here: 👇

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Groundwork London Thames Water 💧 Core Arts Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston Polka Theatre

Since 2020, over 15,000 children and young people have been actively involved in #GrowBackGreener Fund projects!

Core Arts Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston Polka Theatre have shared why the programme is so important for their projects and for London

Groundwork London Mayor of London

These new projects will support:

🐸 A new garden for amphibians in Waterloo

🦫 Beavers in Enfield

🌳 Woodland on the Old Lea River and the Lea Navigation Canal

🌿 Heathland on Stanmore Common

🦋 Bunhill Fields replanting for pollinators and birds, butterflies

James Bullock hackneycitizen.co.uk/2020/08/24/cou… Funded by carbon offsetting from Coca Cola

Very good morning spent walking and talking along the river bank. And as you said, it’s a a dynamic system. Just a few days later and we’d have needed a submarine to see those deflectors and analogues!