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.

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.

It is likely no coincidence that yesterday the EU announced a Free Trade Deal with Indonesia... ...And today EU Environment Commissioner Jessica Roswall announces at AGCO that there will be yet another one-year delay to the EU Deforestation Regulation.

When profit comes before people and planet, democracy suffers. Join the march to demand fairness, justice, and real accountability. 📍March: Rue de la Montagne aux Ombres, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre at 17:00 🎤Speeches & Concert: Schuman roundabout at 18:30 More info: backtothefuturemarch.org

Great to see the EU #RestoreNature law in the run up. A crucial attempt to offer the next generation (and the current one) a liveable future.

A mild legal proposal to harmonised #forest data collection in the EU could die today if @eppgroup.bsky.social decides to band together with the extreme right. As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.

Banning the export of #pesticides that are illegal in the EU was part of the consensus we found at Von der Leyen's "strategic dialogue" on farming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 We’re kicking off the #BackToTheFuture march from Maastricht to Brussels! We have come together to make sure EU decisionmakers hear us all the way down in Brussels . Protect people and the planet 🫂 🌎 Going backwards is not an option! We want protections for people, communities and environment.

Waking up to historical good news. With 60 countries ratification, we now have a binding legal framework to protect the high seas.

EU law amended (no consultation nor impact assessment) to allow spreading processed manure above nitrogen pollution limits. Courtesy of the Dutch livestock lobby. The solution to too much shit production, is to produce less of it. Not to dress it up as fertiliser. #nitrates #water #pollution

Extremely excited about the launch of our first regional portfolio of investment-ready landscape level nature restoration sites. We can bring nature back, for its own sake, and for the communities that depend on it.

Your daily war on nature: -Sweden leading a coalition asking for mass shooting of cormorants. Easier to blame the black birds than address the agricultural run off and overfishing killing the Baltic's fish -Finland asks to kill the nature restoration law (on behalf of the clear cut forestry lobby).

An impressive master class in energy policy from one of the politicians that has done the most for the energy transition. Way too much substance for a short post. Hope RGI posts it on line.

Starting now in Brussels. Rapid decarbonization of electricity supply is one area where we are actually effectively addressing the climate crisis. We need to go even faster, but avoid destroying nature in the process. #climateaction

The farm lobby goes in for a kill, as the EC opens a consultation of "agriculture simplification". First step towards an "omnibus" law that will make it (even) easier to use #pesticides. Citizens have until October 14 to tell the EC to stop messing with their food.

Some good news as a deal to end harmful subsidies for fishing fleets comes into force today www.reuters.com/business/env...

🧵 1/4 🔬💧 Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its water pollution rules. 📢 Freshwater ecosystems are collapsing - and outdated policies aren't keeping up. Full statement ➡️ www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc... #HandsOffNature

Sweden and Finland have increased logging levels to such a point that their forests are now a net source of emissions. Their Prime Ministers are asking to be exempt from EU #Climate target so that they keep going. Oh and they blame climate change. #NoShame #Forests

Somehow, our leaders still think #climateaction and #RestoreNature are expensive. They should take a close look at the alternative. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

A terribly bad policy set to become worse. www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

🚨 Final call. RGI Annual Conference #TheBigSwitch is this Thu 18 Sep in Brussels. Last seats. Register now: bit.ly/TheBigSwitch... ⚙️ European decarbonisation with Catharina Sikow-Magny Eoin Kennedy. 🦉 Nature and people positive with Kevin Austin @arielbrunner.bsky.social Adrián Maté.

This is great news and shows that collaboration between state/EU, scientists and farmers leads to positive outcomes. Well done to all but especially the Corncrake/Traonach LIFE team who have been at the coalface 👏 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Join us in Brussels on 18/9 to discuss key issues around the energy transition. Including the need to advance it in coordination and in parallel with addressing the biodiversity crisis.

From budgets and farming to forests, oceans, lead, and clean energy, Brussels has a packed agenda. Our latest article breaks down what’s at stake for nature and climate in the coming months and how citizens can keep pressure on decision-makers. 🔗 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the #HandsoffNature campaign! Nearly 200k people across the EU made their views clear in a short space of time on this vital issue. Once these laws are gone, it’s almost impossible to get them back, but it's not over yet. We will keep you updated ...

Good news (at least for the lungs of my family, colleagues and neighbours): Belgian court knocked down the attempt to delay the next stage of Brussels low emissions zone. Interestingly, they found no evidence that poorer people own the majority of the most polluting cars. #CleanAir

A map to protect seabirds in Ireland 😍 Our Partner @birdwatchireland.bsky.social published an updated map with 73 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) for seabirds. The map shows where seabirds in Ireland mingle, eat, and breed, and where they should be protected. #birds #restorenature

Latest data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social show that August 2025 was the third warmest on record globally (after 2023 and 2024). Europe had its fourth warmest summer season, with some countries such as the UK having their warmest summer on record.

Attention: EU Commission call for "feedback on future environmental legislation simplification, launched by 22.7, closing 10.9 (!). Noting that "simplification" is the EU word for "deregulation", inputs from science would seem important. environment.ec.europa.eu/news/feedbac...

It's sad that so much time and effort should go into stopping dumb projects that should have been buried decades ago. But here we are. The fight goes on.

Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating.

European countries trying to stop the recovery of their wolf population should be ashamed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.

Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain - The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis #farming Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The old debate about whether #Brexit would be used to demolish EU environmental protection or not is now being resolved.

Join the conversation... #TheBigSwitch #RenewableEnergy #Biodiversity @renewablesgrid.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

Across Europe, civil society is under pressure. ⛔ Restrictions. 🗞️ Smear campaigns. 💶 Funding cuts. The EU’s new Civil Society Strategy must provide real safeguards – and you can help shape it. 🗓️ Deadline: 05 September Public Consultation ➡️ bit.ly/3ISrHtU Call for Evidence ➡️ bit.ly/45c9LmN

Good ocean news that a legal effort to overturn a ban on bottom fishing gear in 87 areas of the Atlantic continental shelf has failed. These areas are now closed to all bottom trawling and dredging as well as bottom set longlines, gill nets and pots. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Once again. The threat to both food security and farmers livelihoods is NOT environmental policy. It's the lack of it.

President Macron has signed into law the farm lobby dictated law that aims at accelerating the further intensification of French farming (easy licencing for livestock factory farms, increased water use, easier pesticide use). Despite 2 million citizens signing a formal petition against it.

"Jellyfish invasion shuts down reactors at French nuclear power station" is the kind of fun title that brings home the mundane implications of ecological collapse. Overfishing and climate change matter. Also to the industries that are beloved by those that promote them.

The pesticide authorisation is just the tip of the iceberg. Farm lobby dictated law is about doing everything to speed up ecological collapse, from increasing water use to promoting factory farming. Undemocratic and unconstitutional, as well as socially harmful. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔥This year, an area 4.5 times the size of New York City has gone up in flames in Europe. Instead of focusing on putting out the fires, we must shift towards avoiding them from starting. Our joint paper on preventing wildfires: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07... We can't let nature burn down💔

Recommended read on efforts to understand wind turbine bird strikes & effective solutions to mitigate them cc @alexanderlees.bsky.social @arielbrunner.bsky.social e360.yale.edu/features/win...

Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Romania. These are the countries whose ministers are currently pushing for (even) laxer pesticides regulation in the EU Agri Council.

Thank you President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for the constructive meeting. Dangerous time call for sound leadership. We need well implemented laws, wisely spent money, and thriving democratic debate. Stand up to those advocating the opposite.

Fear is one of the reasons we see so little reporting about the reality behind farm policies.

Finally! www.theguardian.com/environment/... A government so far mainly busy destroying env legislation does the right thing. UK ban goes further than existing EU law, but fall short of current ECHA recommendations that are on the EC desk. In any case a huge step forward that must be voted asap.

Scientists calculated that just for 12 European big cities, the climate change contribution to last week's heat wave has killed 1200 additional European citizens. What would be the political reaction to a coordinated spate of terrorist attacks killing 1200 people across Europe in one week?