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Happy Birthday Redbridge 🎈 The London Borough of Redbridge was created 60 years ago today. Watch our video to learn about the history of Redbridge and test your knowledge👇 Explore the history of Redbridge at the newly refurbished Redbridge Museum 👉 orlo.uk/kbMWV

Great to see Orange-tips back - and appearing on the Wanstead Park butterfly transect, too! ⁦Epping Forest⁩ ⁦Friends of Wanstead Parklands⁩ ⁦Butterfly Conservation 🦋⁩ ⁦BNAEssex⁩

It is #BenjaminZephaniahDay so we celebrate this great man & talented poet as a friend and advocate for #EppingForest. He visited the Forest, having lived close by. We were proud to have a poem written about our Forest Keepers in this book, ‘When I Grow Up’! 💚🌳

If you see a beautiful veteran tree don’t assume it has a TPO. Get in touch with the local authority and protect for future generations.

The Barking sand martins going wild this morning, bringing food to their nests in the river wall. The recent rains, followed by sunshine, have brought out clouds of insects along the river & they are taking full advantage of the bounty! The colony seems to be in rude health-

Best ever April by species: 104 (avg: 92). Best birds: Bar-tailed Godwit, Goshawk, Little Ringed Plover, Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Whimbrel, Nightingale, Cuckoo, Green Sandpiper, Shelduck, Woodlark, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Barnacle Goose, Ring Ouzel, Tree Pipit #londonbirds

Latest word on the #PlanningBill is that developers could pave over local green spaces on the promise of delivering replacements miles away. The Bill must deliver better protections for nature and neighbourhoods. 👇 theoep.org.uk/report/oep-giv… (1/2)

More stark warnings about the #PlanningBill today, with the The Office for Environmental Protection branding it a ‘regression’ in environmental law. When will Government take heed and support the amendments needed to deliver for nature, people & a resilient economy? 👇 🧵 theoep.org.uk/report/oep-giv…

Happy National Hedgerow Week! 🍃💚 These living boundaries burst with life—blackthorn blossoms for pollinators, brambles sheltering rabbits, and birds nesting in hazel and hawthorn. Find out more about hedgerows here 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/habitats/farml…

It is economic illiteracy to seek to cut migration to fill skills shortages amid an ageing population. Where are the care homes going to find the 130k staff they need? #bbcqt

Demand the GOV.UK scrap the part of the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill which threatens important wildlife protections!! ✍️Take action here wtru.st/3SkLinU

Biodiversity Net Gain? Slashed. Nature-friendly farming? Defunded. Climate & Nature Bill? Blocked. It’s austerity, privatisation and inequality dragging the economy down - yet it’s our natural environment that’s being mullered to pay for it.

Please be reminded that fires and barbecues are not permitted anywhere in #EppingForest. Do not discard cigarettes or leave litter in the Forest as this increases the risk of wildfire. See a fire or BBQ in the Forest?  Call 999 and report it to 020 8532 1010 (lines open 24/7).

Our staff from #TeamEppingForest will be in #WansteadPark tomorrow, Saturday 21 June, from 10am, as part of the Wren Wildlife & Conservation Group's Wanstead Wildlife Weekend!  Find us in the #EppingForest gazebo near the tea hut.  Full details at wrengroup.org.uk 💚🌳

More than 97% of the UK's species-rich #grasslands have vanished in under a century. Click the link to see how we are working to reverse that trend at Sheppard's Meadow: arcg.is/uqLTj1 #EppingForest #HabitatRestoration #Epping #pollinators #wildflowers

🌾 Today, The Wildlife Trusts launch a bold new vision - 'Food and Farming in a Nature and Climate Crises'. Nature-friendly farming must move centre-stage. It’s time to get the farming transition back on track. The moment to act is now. Read more 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/news/new-visio…

Extracting #peat destroys one of our best carbon stores and trashes a unique, biodiverse habitat. Doing so to grow pretty flowers is hugely selfish. Ever heard of the climate and ecology crisis? Come on, The RHS , show some spine!

A huge THANK YOU to London Fire Brigade  for tackling the fire on #WansteadFlats this afternoon - The fire is now out. The Forest is at HIGH fire risk right now - please always follow our byelaws and signage: • No Fires • No BBQs • No Littering • Dispose of cigarettes responsibly

It is time to call a nature emergency guardian-series.co.uk/news/25293275.… MaVictoriaCristancho Maria Fawcett Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof | People before Profit Cllr Sadiq Kothia Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan Calvin Bailey MBE MP Nav Kaur Johal Pushpita Gupta Joe Hehir Jo Blackman Daniel Morgan-Thomas Calvin Bailey MBE MP Wanstead Climate Action Chris Gannaway

Public Statement from the Friends of Wanstead Parklands: Help Protect Epping Forest from Wildfires - facebook.com/groups/4693653…