It's the Nazi convention. Come friendly bomb... theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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The Wild Side of Beth Chatto Gardens: rushing headlong into Summer! Beth Chatto’s Plants & Gardens

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Two horses have already died; pls sign cancelling the misnamed ‘grand national…’ chuffed.org/project/animal…

Last year Nigel Jones and I had 8 days surveying insects in Upper Deeside between Muir of Dinnet NNR and Mar Lodge Estate. The report describing where we went and the circa 600 species we found can be found here: researchgate.net/publication/37…

How many more of these desperate sad posts are we going to see. Councils need to instruct their outsourcing companies. What good is a biodiversity policy if the workers are sent out to kill everything every spring?

The science is clear on this. Badger culls don’t work. They are not the answer. Defra UK please do the right thing for the good of farming and wildlife. Please listen to the The Wildlife Trusts and the many other organisations providing all the accurate evidence you need.

Further confirmation (as if it was needed) of the direct link between intelligence and support for Brexit. In short the lower your intelligence the more likely it is you support Brexit. Embarrassing for Brexit supporters but facts are facts.

neurosciencenews.com/cognitive-skil….

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Russia has completely destroyed the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv. Due to Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to bring the Ukraine aid bill for a vote, Ukraine doesn't have the capacity to shoot down Russian missiles and drones.

Shame on you, Speaker Mike Johnson

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A Wander Round Kew Gardens, through eyes old and young...
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'Research finds', we read👇in The Telegraph 🤡, that fresh food from Europe will be much more expensive as UK finally starts Brexit checks

'Research' ... and anyone with a single neuron in their brain who figured that one out 8 yrs ago and has been warning about it ever since 🤡🤡

“Has anyone else noticed there is a global biodiversity crisis and there are more pressing issues to worry about than a little less honey? What about the vast cocktail of chemical pesticides sprayed over our landscape?” Well said ⁦Chris Packham⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Britain’s fleet of gas-burning power stations were running at less than 20% capacity last week. This reinforces the point I made some weeks ago when Sunak unveiled another fossil fool argument - that we need to build more gas power stations as we build more green ones. Fact is we…

Astonished to hear in @BBCradio4 Inside Science that some USA farmers feed chicken shit to cattle. This may explain why some cattle now have H5N1 Avian influenza. Unbelievably stupid and horrible.

Nice free trade deal with the USA anyone?

Shaun Ferguson 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Not sure why you are furious.

Furious about dog owners allowing dogs to roam amongst ground nesting birds.

Or furious about peoples pet being predated upon.

Or furious, you think it's a hoax.

Personally I think dogs should be banned from NR's. Our local NR has banned them.

Farrukh this man is not intelligent. Not even close.

“Just 6% of national park land in England and Wales managed effectively for nature.” 6%. Of national parks. 😮 theguardian.com/environment/20…

I'm disgusted that a bunch of MPs would name a (possibly junior) official to Secretary of State because they don't like their scientific assessment (as if they know any better)

In the private or charity sector, this kind of behaviour would be considered bullying & harassment

Just 3% of England is well protected for nature.

We can't afford to swap balanced scientific process to designate SSSIs with political choice.

Here's a briefing explaining how the process really works & why we need more wildlife sites, not more politics:
wcl.org.uk/docs/Sites%20o…

Interesting US perspective on something we have been addressing successfully in Essex and elsewhere (coastal squeeze caused by relative sea level rise, addressed by managed realignment) for the last 35 years.

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to gut Natural England’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs)

This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed

(Thanks to Joe Marshall for obtaining the letter)

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