Nice to see politicians defending the EU's LIFE programme. It's the only dedicated funding for biodiversity and the European Commission wants to scrap it as a stand alone programme in the name of 'simplification' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This will put the cat among the pheasants! 😂 Attenborough's new series to look at the ecological effects of these pets and pheasant releases www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"Despite knowing since the 1950s their industry would cause catastrophic global heating, in 1988 US oil majors inaugurated the permanent, globalised, anti-climate policy disinformation campaign." Report 👇 recommends criminalisation of such organised anti-climate, and clean energy disinformation.

At present, politics is downstream from money.

The visionary Gelderse Poort rewilding project at Nijmegen. A role model for river restoration. Thriving nature & millions of € saved in flood alleviation. Jobs too. In 2018 Nijmegen won European Green Capital status. Thanks to this success river rewilding now becoming more common across Europe.

A pioneering rewilding site in Europe entailed transforming the river Rhine. The flood risk has been massively reduced saving billions of euros; the local economy has been revitalised. Delighted to film Wouter Helmer explaining how he created it. youtu.be/gr5YyyCHI4o?...

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is there anything they can't do 😂? Amazing beavers. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Created Rewilding playlist to celebrate world Rewilding day and launch of Rewilding Expertise Centre in Wageningen youtube.com/playlist?lis...

More on the exciting Earth Rover Program.

1. One of the things I mention as a secondary issue in this week’s column is a lie so deeply embedded in official narratives that we seldom even notice it: capitalism = “free markets”. In reality, capitalism is *the opposite* of the free market. A short 🧵. 1/8 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' didn't win an Oscar tonight. Here's a reminder of the smear campaign it faced in Hollywood:

Fascinating. How genes are turned on and off by environmental conditions.

There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It really is that easy but we are fed a narrative by governments and the powerful that says the opposite www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very interesting. Importance of seedling banks in tropical & temperate forests.

On Mon was at great BSBI workshop on conifer ID taken by Charles Shier. Focused on 20 common species & looked at many more in Castlewellan walled garden. 🌲🌲🌲

The cave that rewrote Britain’s Ice Age youtu.be/MMVcGvX5gYI?...

When Extinction Rebellion peacefully protested at the gates of Leinster House, they were swiftly removed by a phalanx of Gardai and arrested. Yet when IFA members have occupied Bord Bia HQ or Agriculture House, the state’s response has been far more accomodating. www.thejournal.ie/extinction-r...

#WorldWetlandsDay | Helping ancient peatlands to breathe again 💨 Peatlands are one of the world’s most important wetland ecosystems. Covering just 3% of the Earth’s surface, they store 30% of the world’s soil carbon – twice as much as forests combined. At Bunloit estate, we are restoring peatland.

A glimpse into the dodgy world of political lobbying & why governments don't act for the better good but instead do favours for their corrupt friends. Good riddance to Mandelson.

"Contrary to public perception, the recovery of bears in Greece has not been associated with a significant overall increase in damage to human property" New data showing how people and wildlife can get along 🐻 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Major rewilder Ben Goldsmith helps Reform?! No surprise really for a friend of Boris & supporter of Israeli genocide. Extreme wealth derangement syndrome anybody? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Climate breakdown + ecological collapse + unsustainable landuse change + the Far-Right = total destruction. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Take the red pill.

Today marks a major step for global ocean governance. The High Seas Treaty enters into force, creating the first legal framework to conserve and sustainably manage marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ).

The heart of our problems including why the earth is being trashed & why talentless morons like Trump gain power

"In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced" Make your voice heard before tomorrow's deadline. 👇

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Recording of v. exciting launch of Earth Rover Program. Their "soilsmology" system can read soil structure (horizons etc.), density and moisture in 3D. Potential to measure carbon content.

Massive potential in this. "Seeing" into soil with seismology. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Global launch of Earth Rover Program. Exciting research into using seismology as low cost, effective way to analyse soil quality. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The EU is planning a shift away from science in favour of the chemical industry. Instead of rolling back protections we must strengthen them by removing hazardous pesticides. Join us & say End the Toxic Pesticide Era. Write to your Commissioner www.environmentalpillar.ie/end-the-toxic-pesticide-era/

Relevant to Ireland too...the Sika deer problem in Scotland and how to solve it👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Global launch of Earth Rover Program. Exciting research into using seismology as low cost, effective way to analyse soil quality. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Massive international scandal of the ISDS (Investor–state dispute settlement). Large companies & individuals ultimately robbing a better life from us all. Most people are un aware of this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Possible that up lynx co-existed with people in upland wood pasture. Until early medieval period at least.

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement www.theguardian.com/environment/... Recently had the good fortune to meet Jack Durant, one of the founders of Youngwilders. Great guy.

Top class work these guys are doing. Video is a great guide on how to tackle rhododendron.

Good news for ground nesting birds in Co Fermanagh! www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.embercombe.org/the-rewildin... Places available 👆. Learn about rewilding and how to carry it out. Make friends and connections with other rewilders and become part of a big network in UK, Ireland and further afield. Training delivered by experienced rewilders.

Let's make polluters pay for the damage they do. Please sign the petition foe.uk/tmqsb

I've just signed this petition to save Lady's Island Lake, Co. Wexford. Will you sign your name too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie

Israel digs itself into a deeper hole

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...