The added value of Dutch agriculture is €13.3 billion, but env damage leads to net impact estimated at a negative €5.3 billion per year. Essential read at a moment when the intensive farm lobby is leading an all out assault on EU environmental legislation www.deloitte.com/nl/en/Indust...

🔥 What happens after Europe’s NGOs are dismantled? Last week, @alemanno.bsky.social mapped how civic space in Europe is being suffocated – how NGOs die. This week, we asked the next question: what happens when they do? 🧵👇 euobserver.com/eu-political...

So the EP Agri committee, so adamant that consumers would be confused by labels saying VeggyBurger or Vegeterian sausage, have voted to allow booze producers to replace health indications with a QR code Transparency seems is a one way street. Leading away from healthier and more sustainable diets.

Part of the tragedy of our time is that so many are ready to attack the bits of governance and democracy that annoy or get in their way, while ignoring the risk of the whole house coming down crashing on their heads. This is a must read piece.

⚠️In a few weeks, the European Commission will present a package, called environmental omnibus, that could roll back laws protecting our air, water, and wildlife... all to please powerful polluters. It's time for the Commission to listen to people, not polluters. #HandsOffNature

The road to hell: let’s burn more fossile fuels if we mismanage our forests....

The @ec.europa.eu confirms it has not endorsed Malta’s so-called research derogation for finch trapping, reinforcing that the previous ruling still stands. 👉 Read more: birdlifemalta.org/2025/11/euro...

Join our webinar for the launch of the African-Eurasian Flyway Initiative! ✨ The African-Eurasian Flyway is one of the world’s great migratory routes, used by over 2 billion birds, connecting ecosystems and people across Africa, Europe and Asia. 🌍 Learn more here www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

A coordinated assault on civil society is unfolding with surgical precision (...) EU institutions and national governments are deploying a 5-step playbook to eliminate independent organisations that stand between corporate power and public interest euobserver.com/eu-political...

One of a new generation of landscape level #RestoreNature projects we've been developing with our national Partners. Bringing nature at scale requires bold vision, inclusive work with communities, factoring in climate change, imagining sustainable local economies. Stay tuned.

Dear @eppgroup.bsky.social please check up the regimes that have been following the Russian play book on anti-NGOs repression and ask yourselves if those are the models you want to follow: www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/fore... Standard play book: defunding=>foreign agent labelling=>judicial repression.

When you put together the attempts to defund NGOs defending public goods, and the private interests lobby-fest driving the roll back of EU legislation, you start seeing the pattern. It is not about simplifying life for the man on the street and the struggling SME.

🚨 Across Europe, farmland that once echoed with birdsong and buzzing life is falling silent, poisoned by the overuse of harmful pesticides. These chemicals contaminate soil and water, kill the insects that birds depend on, and weaken the ecosystems that make farming possible.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

You are right. We can do a lot to simplify things for companies and citizens, while enforcing our good laws- unified data bases, digitalisation, remote controls, proper staffing of agencies. Weakening EU laws, as the most polluting industries and sectors ask for, is not simple. It's simply wrong.

Weather radar results show an average of 11.2tn insects during daytime hours, just over 5tn at night Insect abundance was higher over woodlands, grasslands, even urban areas – but dropped in intensively farmed regions & where artificial lighting was high. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 Today, Agriculture Ministers are meeting to discuss the future of Europe’s Agriculture policy, and one crucial topic is on the table: nature. We call for dedicated funding for the environment and climate. 👉 Read our vision: www.birdlife.org/wp-content/u...

Water hemmoraging from Natura2000 peatbog in Belgium's Haute fagne. Deep drainge, bad for biodiversity, floods, summer droughts. For the sake of uneconomic spruce plantations. A priority for RestoreNature

But of course when done by blond people, it doesnt count as deforestation. (*sarcasm alert)

Irelan asks for "no additional heating approach" to farming. IE if emissions don’t increase, they can be "climate neutral" Try that with anything else. Ecuador can have no crime problem if homicide numbers stay stable. Ukrain can be at peace if bombing rate stays the same. A better world beacons

45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds euobserver.com/green-econom...

So many of the "environment vs economy" debates are based on economies that are completely twisted by public subsidies . A neat example from transport. But holds with agriculture, forestry, fishing, land planning etc.

🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨 The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown. Our reaction 👇

45 major meat & dairy corporations generated more than 1bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions eq Largest 5 emitters analysed - JBS, Marfrig, Tyson, Minerva, and Cargill - together produced 480 mn tonnes, surpassing emissions reported for Chevron, Shell, or BP www.businessgreen.com/news/4520605...

Brilliant visuals making the latest bird migration science accessible. The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The energy transition is too slow. On biodiversity we're still going backwards. We've taken a thorough look at good and best practice from across Europe, drawing lessons for addressing both at the same time.

Possibly the stupidest nature destroying project in Europe. Do write to your local Italian embassy to tell them not to put a giant bird trap in the way of your migratory birds.

Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞 This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago

Meanwhile, billions in CAP money are spent on devastating ecosystems and destroying farm resilience. And environmental lows are being dismantled. Compensations are little more than pissing in the wind while ever worse disasters are actively promoted.

Food concerns everyone, and so do the rules that protect it. If the EU rolls back food and pesticide laws, we all lose: our health, nature, clean water. We built these protections together over time. Now let’s defend them. Speak up now: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe... #HandsOffNature

The emblem of the farmland biodiversity crisis. On my grandpa's farm they were shooting hundreds, year in year out. For generations. Then in the 60's they wiped them out in 5 years when the farm was modernised. Then it went extinct nationally (IT).

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

Dedicating just 3% of the land currently used for biofuels to solar power would produce the same amount of energy - and enough to power one third of the global car fleet, if it were electric. Those that argue against in field solar are barking up the wrong tree (good planning & design still needed)

Since 1970, global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73%, and more than a quarter of our planet’s species now face extinction. Nature needs advocates. Political will is needed. Action is essential. So is recognition that this work is not optional—it is foundational.

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh Ditto Shepherds pie Feel free to add your own below 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"In the five years since leaving the EU, rather than protecting British fish, politicians have set catch limits too high, allowing international trawlers to plunder stocks..." 😠

355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products. This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused. If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.

The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban. As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.

At a time when the EC seems to increasingly drift into fact free politics, the leaked #bioeconomy strategy draft is refreshing. It finally recognises the burning of biomass as essentially a waste of precious resource and argues for resource efficiency, material use and judicious resources use.

With their own bodies contaminated, would our politicians still vote to weaken pollution control rules?

Good news and hopefully a breakthrough in funding conservation along our flyway. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10... It follows ground breaking work @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social has been doing in the East Asia- Australasia and the Americas flyways.

Dear MS Politicians + MEPs @europarl.europa.eu: Please start making noise about the #LIFE program. The @ec.europa.eu proposal is insufficient, we need dedicated money in the #MFF (ECF/NRP) to #RestoreNature! cc @cesarluena.bsky.social @juttapaulus.bsky.social @rasmusnordqvist.bsky.social

The climate crisis- greed death spiral. Spanish authorities allow the logging of (living) trees in areas hit by wildfires. Quick money for the landowner but -permanent déforestation -loss of regeneration capacity -loss of shade for livestock -More soil erosion

Switzerland is killing 2/3 of the #wolf cubs born this year, notionally to protect livestock. It will also cull 25 000 (!) cows to prop up prices given the ongoing overproduction (US tariffs have shrunk the market). www.lematin.ch/story/lait-2...

Don't listen to the dirty lobbies that repeat the "either farming or environment" trope. Listen to the good farmers that work hard on the ground to make a change. They deserve support. They need to be empowered.

And what is the political response? Weakening nature protection laws and scrapping conservation funding. #NihilisticPolitics

Hard not to agree. The survival of humanity and solving most of the problems it faces are largely down to overcoming the concentrated power of the big polluters and the Big Men who work for them

Once again on the streets of Brussels with @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @natuurpunt.bsky.social @natagora.bsky.social for the #ClimateMarch Whatever toxic lies from east and west, we face an existential crisis and must deal with it. Nature is our best ally against climate chaos. #RestoreNature

🎉We are delighted to announce we won the 2025 Communications Award from the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) Europe, recognising the power of our #RestoreNature campaign. Together, we can make a change. 💚