A huge thank you to Kent Wildlife Trust for your kind words and this write up on our Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI butterfly count and community rally on Saturday! 💚🌾🦋 We will continue standing together against any development on our precious Swanscombe Peninsula! #SaveSwanscombe

The Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI is a standout example of campaigning positively. Making their point with a butterfly count and peaceful nature walk rally. We would love to see their efforts get as much recognition as others that hit the headlines. 👉kwtg.uk/ssprally #SaveSwanscombe

Good to meet with Jim Dickson MP for Dartford Terrythebird Green Cllr Laura Edie & Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI today to discuss the importance of Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI & the #SwanscombeVision. Wildlife highlights: 4 Whinchat, Raven, Marsh Harrier & Wall Brown Butterfly #londonbirds cdn.buglife.org.uk/2022/11/Swansc…

Thanks to Jim Dickson MP for Dartford for joining us today & Terry for sharing his important bird ringing research - with over 88 birds documented in just one morning! The kind of mixed mosaic habitats found here is becoming a rarity, yet it's crucial to support rare flora & fauna 🕷❤️🦋🐦🌿

With our conservation colleagues, we have written to the Secretary of State Angela Rayner, asking that the planning designation on Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI be revoked. This site will never be a theme park, nor should it ever be a housing estate 👉kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/conservat…

Conservation charities call on Secretary of State to end theme park threat to nature 🎢The #Swanscombe Peninsula has been the subject of a Development Consent Order since 2014... Read the full story 👇 buglife.org.uk/news/conservat… #SaveSwanscombe #BuglifeCampaign BBC Kent

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/… #WeWantWildlife #SaveSwanscombe #SwanscombeVision Buglife Kent Wildlife Trust Donna Zimmer Green Cllr Laura Edie richard taylor-jones Chris Packham Kaye Brennan campaign strategy Craig Bennett @BarryWright12

🌿🕷️ The little spider that could! Did you hear about the tiny jumping spider that saved Swanscombe by stopping a £2.5bn theme park from being built on a Site of Special Scientific Interest? With a little help from the incredible @SSPCampaign and other dedicated environmental

It's with a joyous heart I share news that The London Resort theme park is over! 🥳 Thanks to the fab charities & all who supported Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI Proud of our community success in protecting this wildlife haven against a billionionaire corporation! 🌿🦋❤️ kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/…

🌿 Victory for Nature! 🥳 The London Resort project is officially over, protecting the precious Swanscombe Peninsula. Thanks to tireless efforts by campaigners & wildlife charities, this vital SSSI remains a haven for wildlife & the community. 👉kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/conservat… Thanks

In #Dartford we've a severe pollution problem & we've met yearly housing demands. We can't keep building our way out of existence, tearing up vital green spaces such as wetlands that are natural carbon stores! Rachel Reeves I am a proud member of Team Bat & Team Newt! 🦇🦎✊️

We're coming together to celebrate the success of our community Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI!🚶‍♀️🥳💚 With potential deregulations of environmental protections, we need to keep up visibility to ensure this vital habitat in our increasingly built up area remains safeguarded! Hope to see you there.

We are refuting claims made by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer regarding the impact of conservation efforts on housing development in Ebbsfleet. In an editorial for The Telegraph, Sir Keir suggested that plans for 15,000 new homes had been blocked due to the discovery of a colony

Good morning Keir Starmer the land you describe in The Telegraph forms part of Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI an amazing wildlife site with over 1700 species. It offers a green lung to an already built up congested area. Please do not try to devalue an SSSI. x.com/naturalengland…

Thanks to everyone who joined our rather nippy walk yesterday! It strikes me how lucky we are this nature oasis exists within such a built up area. A message to anyone looking to destroy this SSSI - we will not be backing down and keep doing our all to protect it!🐦🌼🛥🌿🐝🦭❤️🦎

🕷️Warning, this is not an April fools! With The Wildlife Trusts, Buglife, CPRE Kent , Wildlife and Countryside Link , and Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI, we’ve written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, challenging misleading claims about housing development in Ebbsfleet. In his recent editorial,

I set up Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI 5 years ago to take a stand against a billionaire corporation with plans to concrete over this nature haven 🌿🐝 After working with charities to get the NSIP removed, the govt have finally done so 🥳 Now to protect it for nature and people to indefinitely!

Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI Big Butterfly Count started yesterday was so excited to walk around Swanscombe Marshes taking pictures 🦋recording what sightings I could find 🦋 #Butterflies #insects #butterflyeffect #butterflycount #FridayFeeling 🦋

Sunday afternoon at Swanscombe Marshes doing the butterfly count before it started to rain 🦋 with my daily counts the Gatekeeper is winning 🦋#butterflies #insects #wildlife #NatureLover Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Kent Wildlife Trust Explore Kent Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI #sundayvibes

Earlier I met with Bob from Broadness Boat Club. Despite being there for over 30 years, the new landowners are trying to block all members accessing it & building a 6 foot fence to keep them out! If you can, please donate to help fight this injustice ⛴️👇 gofundme.com/f/save-broadne…