When a licence is refused - and gamebirds are released anyway. Today's news: A Wild Justice supporter helps uncover unlawful release of gamebirds at the Deben Estuary. Read the full blog: tinyurl.com/gamebirdrele...

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sustainable Hackney screening of the ‘Happy Man Tree' film, on Friday 6 Feb www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/event-detail.... Campaign to save a 150 yr old London Plane tree. More info & invitation to reflect & connect www.noticethistree.org @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

@paulpowlesland.bsky.social hi Paul can you contact me? Re the showing of the Happy Man Tree film 6 Feb?

Who is feeling the weight of this at the moment? People seem to have lost their voices on social media. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘A silent majority’: Politicians strongly underestimate support for green policies, study reveals - From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus Research by Lisa-Maria Tanase et al Story by me #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Free, Free South America.

Our current agricultural system is choking birds out of existence + farmers out of business. The report identifies a need for: - better agri-environment schemes to protect grass margin + fallow habitats - engagement with farmers to support bird-friendly practices www.birdguides.com/news/farmlan...

@fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social have details of misery caused by defects of ECO4, insulation, ASHP, solar. Various facebook groups eg www.facebook.com/share/g/1Adj.... @martingillie.bsky.social. Data in NAC report unclear. Fabric 1st & renewables & proper oversight of procurement! No silver bullet!

Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct, marking the first official loss of a bird species in the country for two decades:

The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ

Michael Mansfield criticises ministers’ refusal to meet Palestine Action hunger strikers

'Rewilding' presented as merely another investment opportunity. Capitalism is like a highly corrosive acid, relentlessly seeking to corrupt and neutralise everything that offers ways out of the dead end nightmare IT is creating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"She's been on remand for over a year, her trial's not until April next year and bail keeps getting denied." news.sky.com/story/fears-...

Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years

"European governments... are entrusting their powers to US platforms whose bosses are gleefully trampling on European democracy. ...To exercise power, one doesn’t need to win elections – only contracts."

We have 9 days to buy this song to help it to become Xmas no 1 @linktr.ee/T4Plive www.instagram.com/t4plive?igsh...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in N Gaza, arresting director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, staff, & patients - part of Israel systematic targeting of healthcare workers. Nearly a year later, he remains detained without charges, with reports of abuse & beatings. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

The latest Sustainable Hackney Newsletter here sustainablehackney.org.uk/so/ccPhkWbe9... @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy. Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget

The great Wildebeast migration in Kenya as told by David Attenborough Soon they may be gone forever as developers build hotels beside their river crossing www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU2c...

www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/post/webinar... Are you inspired by the film power.film Webinars by www.pop.energy/ to learn how street by street approach works. @sustainhackney.bsky.social

"The slaughter. The massacre. The genocide. When will it stop?" As a woman is arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign, she asks when will it end? It's on all of us to take action to stop the genocide and resist attempts to label those who do as 'terrorists'.

Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@sustainhackney.bsky.social Films for Action Fri 21 Nov with panel discission after www.sustainablehackney.org.uk/event-detail...

We've transferred funds from a successful legal campaign to stop the Waterworks Centre & surrounding land being re-designated for housing development to a new page. The threat to this closed Asset of Community Value and the wider area remains, so we will be ready www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-th...

The @houseofcommons.parliament.uk rejected the science-based amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (244 votes to 132). We will continue to campaign to limit the damage this badly thought out piece of legislation will do. www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bio...

Defective work done under ECO4 & damage done should be remediated. The failures give retrofit & renewables a bad name @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social also say “5. The Government's new Warm Homes Plan must include independent checks on all work, proper training, and full protections for residents”

I think you are papering over truth @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social say “1. The Government must replace Trustmk and reform Ofgem 2. All ECO4 homes must be checked and fixed, funded by ending broken ECO4 scheme now 3. Fine energy firms for wasting £bns of our money and allow’g damage to our homes...

🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can. And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise. New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...

Whilst a lot of what Bill Gates wrote in his memo makes a certain amount of sense, his main point that short term emissions reduction is not the priority is based on flawed and out of date data. I’ve scribbled on his graph below to add a very important line - reality. #climatechange #acceleration

Here's a helpful how to guide on how to break the spiral of silence... talkclimatechange.org/howTo

We don't just want 9 river walks, we want access to all rivers. 96% of rivers in England and Wales have no rights of access. Landowners have blocked public access to rivers for centuries. Labour's promise is just 9 new river walks. We say that's not enough.

"We can’t say it strongly enough: for planning reform to succeed for both people and nature, this newt-bashing, snail-baiting, spider-hating scapegoating must stop." @richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:

Only in Britain could the monarch effectively own the sea-bed, and milk it for profit So much for King Charles' 'green credentials' This is absolutely outrageous and has to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Don't care about the massive damage done to native ecosystems by the constant release of vast numbers of invasive pheasants for shooting? Maybe you'll care about catching Lyme disease instead.

River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andy Street is spot on. Birmingham is a brilliant city. Vibrant, diverse, wonderful.

Excellent analysis of this disaster. Oxygen Conservation's purchase of BrewDog's Lost Forest at Kinrara - parkswatchscotland parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/04/o...

I wrote this story back in 2020 about Larch Maxey www.theguardian.com/environment/... Now he faces losing his home - fundraiser here: gofund.me/ce4ec3de0

‘An attack like this is against all human kind’ – mother of Manchester arena victim www.channel4.com/news/an-atta...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @theguardian.com

How many people think to themselves, "I'd vote Labour, if only they could be more like Trump." I would guess it's a number close to zero. But Labour seems to be chasing a figment of its imagination, and this is perhaps the most grotesque example so far. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Lovely to see @rowanmoore.bsky.social giving space and thought to the ideas in Homesick, alongside the excellent Eviction by Jess Field: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

“Our warnings [...] were ignored, & since then we've had to watch helplessly as the UK Govt sold out our seas & communities, allowing fishing pressure to build relentlessly as [...] industrial vessels squeezed out the small local boats" @hugotagholm.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?

We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...