Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

'The Church of England must use its immense wealth to invest in nature' Wild Card & @deborahmeaden.bsky.social are calling on @churchofengland.org to restore nature on their land… but we need your help! 1/2 youtube.com/shorts/W9ax2...

Last month the UK Government quietly released a report detailing the severe threats to our national security posed by biodiversity loss. It shows why we need to campaign for nature now more than ever. You can support our work over at our website: www.wildcard.land #Rewilding #NatureRestoration

Mosses may be small but when they come together they can create beautiful and diverse carpets of softness in a hard world. #BeMoreMoss

I found this really resonated

We ask teachers to hold the emotional weight of the future — often without the language, support, or permission to be honest. Today, Climate Courage Schools is launching The Hardest Lesson, a short film about that quiet pressure inside the classroom. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...

Our #RewildTheChurch campaign has put nature on the agenda for the Church of England! Our motion needs at least 100 signatures from Synod members to be considered for debate. You can ask your local representative to sign the motion here: actionnetwork.org/letters/help... #Rewilding #Stewardship

So many lives are affected by suicide and sometimes you just need to know there’s a reason to stay. Check out this great page if you are struggling or if you would like to write a letter for someone going through a dark time in their life. www.reasonstostay.co.uk #ReasonToStay

Mossy foggy doggy photo. (I could rework the lyrics of Julie Andrew’s’My favourite things’ on the basis of my walk in the woods yesterday)

Full room for a talk on Sphagnum moss with guest speaker Johnny Turner for the Halifax Scientific Society. With the announcement from the watchdog today that government are going to fail biodiversity targets it’s so good to see all these people who care

We concur with the healing power of nature, Happy Birthday to HRH Princess of Wales. 💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c394vykk4dgo

I have just discovered Birdle (an alternative to wordle) it might be too easy for proper birdwatchers but as a bad birdwatcher myself it’s great. Birdle.co.uk

This frames climate as a single-variable problem. It isn’t. CO₂ matters enormously, but so do land use, water, biodiversity, and scale. An energy source can be low-carbon and still ecologically destructive at deployment scale. Pointing that out isn’t “anti-renewable.” It’s systems thinking.

Oh my. Even in silence we rebel.

Seen on the floor of the woods on Christmas Day.and advised by someone on INaturalist that it’s probably Star Jelly. This has a very interesting lore to it. I prefer to think of it as from a falling star than anything to do with a frog.

🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever. Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

"UK governments must reverse [neglect of SSSI] if they are going to deliver on environmental targets and promises, and leave future generations with the rich natural heritage they need to thrive." - via @green-alliance.org.uk greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/12/15/g...

Labour backbencher Chris Hinchliff: “It’s time our Labour government stopped pitching nature as the enemy of a better life for ordinary people in this country and realised that, for the vast majority, it is a measure of it.”

GND Calderdale in Halifax town centre today, celebrating the Christmas season with gifts, climate-focused letters to Santa, and singing 'disrupted carols'...

A belated November #RewildingRoundup graces your feed! ~ Here are some of our highlights 🧵: 🐧Puffins have returned to the Isle of Muck in Northern Ireland for the first time in 25 years thanks to the hard work of the team at @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social - welcome back puffins!

'Research shows the UK has just 53% of its biodiversity intact, placing us in the bottom 10% of countries worldwide – and the lowest in the G7. This means that one in six species across Great Britain is now at risk of extinction.'- Sienna Somers, Friends of the Earth www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-w...

A new weasel species just found in China. Every time I mention “dark extinctions,” people demand proof. But how do you prove the loss of a species we never knew existed? There are more undiscovered species than known ones. Extinction often happens before discovery. www.earth.com/news/routine...

How do we (humans) make decisions as members of a #watershed or #ecosystem? How do we make decisions as part of Nature? Talking Rivers’ new Listening to Nature Toolkit is an online guide that attempts to answer such questions to honor the rights of #Nature.

My lyric essay "The Carbon Landscape: Poetry and Preservation" in Issue 15 of Poetry Birmingham — a nature edition edited by Paul Roberts, featuring brilliant articles like "Wonder as Liberation Practice" by JLM Morton. “Bogs hold our history and our hope.” poetrybirmingham.com/clare-shaw-t...

Calderdale GND reps marching in Leeds last Saturday, in solidarity with people experiencing ecocide and climate chaos around the world #COP30 ##ClimateJusticeIsSocialJustice

Out today op-ed by Cacique Roberto "For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It's survival" Brazilian Anacé chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé warns that a proposed data centre and state neglect threaten his people’s land, spirituality and survival www.bigissue.com/opinion/cop3...

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

"It's surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on Earth." David Attenborough

Want to stop moorland wildfires? Rewetting js the way www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/our-purpose/...

Bats are so cool!

When it’s meant to just be a short walk but then there’s all this fantastic fungi …

The Parliamentary Petition calling on the government to ban wind farms on protected peatland has just relaunched. You can sign it here! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... More info here: saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/n...

Bridestones Rewilded are buying an area of the Pennine moors in this fantastic community project www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/community/ca...

This petition is so close to 105,000 - it would be great if it reached that figure before the new Archbishop is announced (probably next month) Please sign and share you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...

BREAKING: Christian Climate Action has occupied @yorkminster.bsky.social to demand the CoE finds its radical roots & stands up for God's Creation: our planet Earth. 🌍 The Church must stand with the poor & disadvantaged against the fossil fuel industry and our complicit media & government.

Please sign this petition urging the Scottish Government to stop the chronic destruction of our seabed by urgently reinstating a coastal limit on bottom-trawling and scallop dredging. #InshoreLimit ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...

An old rainforest oak like this, thick with epiphytes and ivy, is more than just a tree. It's a mini ecosystem. 🌏

Amazing news for wildlife! After raising funds within the community, Bridestones Rewilding Project have exchanged contracts allowing them to restore this peatland for nature and people. Check out their stunning video … www.instagram.com/reel/DOTo3ci...

A walk in the woods today with neighbours. We found loads of different types of oak galls as well as the beautifully named dog vomit slime mold.

700+ people have been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action. It is a violation of the UK’s international obligations. Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...

Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights On some routes, they are 26 times the price Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters

My latest blog. This time about seagulls - you’ll never look at them in the same way again.

Heads up, peatniks, it's #BogDay! We hope you'll enjoy this blog post from @lyndonmarquis.bsky.social about why the #GreatNorthBog needs to be appreciated for more than just a list of ecosystem services: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...

"Agropastoral activities have impacted the habitable part of our planet—the “Critical Zone”—for thousands of years (...) They disrupted the balance between soil formation and erosion, leading to erosion rates 3 to 10 times faster than soil production since the end of the Ice Age."

We are just 155 away from 100,000. Please give sign if you would like to see our ancient woodlands restored you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Thanks to @wildcard.land for hosting our #Ghostwoods walk through #HardcastleCrags last Sunday; raising awareness about our #AncientWoodlands and how they might be restored in line with the gradual harvesting of non-native pinewood plantations, to restore the balance of indigenous flora and fauna

👻 1 WEEK TO GO!👻 Join Wild Card, XR Calderdale and GND Calderdale in Hardcastle Crags next Sunday for a day of citizen science, art and protest as part of our campaign to #RewildTheGhostWoods! 📍Hardcastle Crags 📅Sunday 13th July 🕑1-4pm Sign up: buff.ly/y8VrhGo

A great 2 hour balsam bash this morning with the Friends of Colden Clough