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Did you know that the 6⃣th #Natura2000 Monitoring Workshop is taking place next week? And we'll be presenting❗️ 🗓️ 2 October 🕚 11:00 - 12:00 ➡️ Session 12: 'Monitoring Habitat Management & Restoration' Check out the event programme 👇 www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

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The CAP is directly incentivising the targeting of environmental destruction on our most valuable nature. Let that sink.

The intensive farm lobby war on nature shifts to the next gear. The EP has just voted to exempt farmers in protected areas (#Natura2000) from all environmental rules (GAEC) under the CAP. You got it right, you are allowed to destroy nature MORE if you are in a "protected area".

That’s a. 40km round trip done, phew!

A few weeks ago we went to watch the hay cut at Kings College Cambridge. Today we collected the first of the bales ready to spread and seed our own meadow. It certainly turned a few heads cycling a bale back to the farm through central Cambridge and the villages!

'“Public control is everything,” Burnham tells me. And now he wants more: control of housing, energy, water, rail – “the basics of life” as he calls them.' He's so clearly running. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Daily Mirror on Trump’s UN speech "Deranged" #tomorrowspaperstoday

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

Vain, stupid, bigoted, shallow, crass, ignorant, and so, so unqualified, in every way. America’s shame and humiliation on the world stage, for everyone to see. Russia, China, Iran etc must be quietly pinching themselves at this man’s sabotage of America; victims of oppression worldwide in despair.

“Trump’s America. Don’t let it become Farage’s Britain,” Davey said in a refrain he repeated several times. Excellent work by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk - we need to hear this from the PM too www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ah, I'm so glad that Starmer gifted Trump a Second State Visit, aren't you? Nothing says "winner" like tying us to the weirdest and most destructive fruit in the bowl.

So reassuring for people in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Burma, DRC, Yemen, political prisoners, victims of war, humanitarian crisis, natural disasters or famine, to know that “the leader of the free world“ has a hat to sell them…

EP committees just rejected the proposed EU #forests monitoring law. Great victory for the nihilistic clear-cuts forestry lobby. With climate change hammering our forests we desperately need comparable data. But the Trumpian logic is that if you don't measure problems they will disappear.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Ahead of Wednesday's #UNGA80 Climate Summit revisit the main findings from #IPCC’s Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

Despite the promises of governments of all colors, and relentless propaganda from the intensive farm lobby, the collapse of nature continues steadily. The collapse of farmland birds is just a reflection of a self destructive farming system. We can change, if we wanted.

Starting a 3-month pilot today with the BBC’s brand-new satellite data team! We'll be focusing on using remote sensing data for news stories and longer-term investigations 🛰️ 🌍 Got tips, an upcoming paper or data, or just ideas you'd like to share with us? DM or email me at [email protected]

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Great to hear that @timfarron.bsky.social expressed support for a default right of responsible access at the recent Lib Dem conference fringe event 'Roam, Rewild, Restore' - speaking alongside @jon-moses.bsky.social and others:

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Yet another climate-wrecking decision from a Government intent on the pursuit of growth at all costs - but the only things that will grow as a result of this disastrous decision are pollution, noise, and climate chaos

Working on tree planting plans for autumn/winter. The green plots show previous plantings (predominantly native scrub, agroforestry lanes and coppice). The red areas show areas to be planted up. This year it’ll mostly be mixed orchard blocks and willow coppice)

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

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Today's "nitrogen from shit is not really nitrogen" chimes with the farm lobby push for "methane from cows is not really methane". After climate denial, we now have also chemistry denial.

@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @copernicusland.bsky.social @eea.europa.eu @lithuaniaineu.bsky.social

At the recent Eurosite Annual Meeting in #Vilnius 🇱🇹, George Catean (Fundatia ADEPT), highlighted how #EUGW can help better map and monitor the evolution of grasslands in #Romania 🇷🇴 He selected site Târnava Mare (ROSCI0227) as an example for evaluating ploughing and mowing events through time

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I explain here why I’ve finally left X for good. It’s like a perverted version of the Miranda rule “Anything you say WILL be held against you.” So, in Trump’s America, it’s increasingly advisable to stay silent.

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EUMETSAT view: UK.

The brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social at Stop Trump tears into this government. ‘By bringing the fascist in chief here, they dishonour us, and they dishonour themselves. By rolling out the red carpet for Trump, they roll out the red carpet for Farage.’

Tens of thousands on the Stop Trump march today in London. A selection of punning placards and costumes: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It’s like parents indulging a spoilt child, who’s so badly behaved they can’t be let out in public - staying in a fairy tale castle; riding around in a golden carriage; lots of dressing up; toy soldiers; courtiers bowing and scraping; parades and banquets. Nauseating and excruciating. #statevisit

Americans could do more to emulate British wit and satire- puncturing the pomposity, vanity, and narcissism of the spoilt child in the White House. Tho’ , so poisonous is the climate now, that they risk charges of treason.

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I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Just emailed my MP asking him to join his colleagues in demanding that the government leaves X following Elon Musk's recent comments. It literally takes two minutes to do, and I encourage everyone to do the same: www.writetothem.com.

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🔥 A song about Trump’s visit to the UK. Very few songs are genius. This one is. Those lyrics are killer. Awesome work @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social

Outrageous bollocks from a pathetically thin skinned Government which is willing to humiliate Britain on the international stage to brown nose one of the most dangerous men the world has ever known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2/ Labour MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social said at the launch that Labour had brought in landmark access legislation in 1949 (with National Parks) and 2000 (with the CRoW Act) - "now is the time to finish that work." Read the APPG's report here: outdoors.inparliament.uk/files/outdoo...

Great to attend the launch of the APPG for Access to Nature's new report yesterday, which calls for "new statutory rights for responsible access" to the English countryside. As @andymacnaemp.bsky.social said, "my own view is that we need a default right of access." @righttoroam.bsky.social 1/

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