Report by @itvnews.bsky.social on the public inquiry into the £200m Cambourne to Cambridge (terminating in Grange Rd) busway 🌳🚌 ❌ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

BBC News reporting on Cambourne to Cambridge Busway Public Inquiry #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

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While plotting a new wildflower meadow in Coton Orchard today, OTV Ben found a Rosy Knot-horn moth (Oncocera semirubella). Nationally Scarce B and of conservation concern. Luckily its larval food plants – bird’s-foot trefoil & clover – are thriving here 🔍🐝 Reason 263 to #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌

Please Pay Attention, Else Next Spring Falls Silent fb.watch/BZgdwzvzj3/?

A moment in Coton…

What a day❗️Huge thanks to the organisers of the Coton Village Fete for all their hard work and to everyone who joined in the fun 🌻🐝 With proceeds shared with @cambridgeppf.bsky.social fighting fund #CotonAction

Collecting fruit for the village fête today, a volunteer recalled donning a picking bag here as a child. 50 years on, these same trees still yield their harvest but if the bonkers busway cuts through, our children may never taste their gift 🍎

Watched Lois and Ben release the moths from their traps in Coton Orchard… what a disgrace it would be if our County Council are given the power to throw this place under a busway 🔍 🐝

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭.𝟲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: Today we joined Rob, whose family has farmed on Madingley Hill for generations, to see the most objected to stretch of the GCP Cambourne to Cambridge busway 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 📺 youtu.be/FzSYWo6QlYM?...

Last @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount of 2025, this one in the Coton allotments 🦋

Thank you Derry & Ylana for showing us around @darwincollegecam.bsky.social garden & orchard today 🍏🐝

The Council plan to route a busway off road across Madingley Hill won’t just fell hundreds of trees, severe hedgerows and nature corridors but also gut farms as one fourth generation farmer tells us, this may be their last harvest if a TWAO is granted #NoFarmsNoFood ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

A lovely morning in Coton Orchard with CLO for our @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount 2025 ⏱️ Sunshine, showers… 133 butterflies across 12 species. Gatekeepers the clear winner. We started with a moth trap with Camb Moth Group, finds still being identified 🔍🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

🍏 Coton Orchard is a beautiful example of food production on the edges of our towns and cities. But it’s threatened by a new busway route. We need better public transport, but not at the cost of precious orchards. Learn more: www.cpre.org.uk/coton-orchar...

You can’t offset the roots of a century. You can’t recreate the hum of a traditional orchard. No metric of ‘net gain’ makes this expendable. Surely this is something worth saving❓ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

Alfie helps his dad water the trees and watch over his friends in this County Wildlife Site. Cap in muzzle, he’s asking you to help him stop Cambs County Council from throwing their home under a busway. Paws in for #TeamAlfie 🐾 @weratedogs.com Help #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster @theguardian.com “How can we trust future promises on environmental mitigation?” ask CambsCC Cllrs. Good Question. Your answer re: felling 100s of mature and veteran trees at Coton Orchard❓ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A red kite scrap, a dead mic, and not a turtle dove in sight – but a cracking glimpse into Coton’s mosaic habitat. Backed by experts, but still far too much resting on the shoulders of a few fighting to #SaveCotonOrchard and protect nature in Cambridgeshire youtu.be/GfzXSes0bf4?...

Tony Booth asked what Cambridge University owes the city; many rose to answer in St Paul’s this evening. Can we find common ground❓ @friendsofthecam.bsky.social

Out watering with CLP. Lots and lots of Whites, Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers, Peacocks, Red Admirals and Ringlets down in the brambles and thistles. And a few White-letter Hairstreaks up in the elms today @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social looking good for @savebutterflies.bsky.social Big Butterfly Count 🦋

Mini moth trap at Coton Orchard for their second BioBlitz weekend – a lovely finale to #CambridgeNatureFestival 2025 #SaveCotonOrchard

Joined @CotonBuzz in Ben’s Meadow at Coton Orchard today, releasing eight Painted Ladies raised as part of #CambridgeNatureFestival activities. Set free among 320+ butterflies already dancing across the grasses and thistles. A privilege to witness. #SaveCotonOrchard @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social

Cambs CC didn’t listen—not to Wildlife Trusts, PTES, 12 NGOs, experts, Lords, Chris Packham, Sir David or 23,000+ petitioners. Today, we hope the inspectors will listen. Battle lines are drawn for Sept’s Public Inquiry. Pls sign & share. Help #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌ ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

By the Cam this evening with @friendsofthecam.bsky.social, we stood for what still flows and still grows. When asked to accept the felling of orchards or the fouling of rivers, we will say no 🌳💧🚌❌ #Save✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

@epollard.bsky.social 13 species of butterflies recorded yesterday in Coton Orchard and more moths than I could count, some not seen in Cambs for many years #CambridgeNatureFeatival #Buiblitz 🦋 🔍

Thanks to everyone who came to today’s record-breaking Bioblitz at Coton Orchard with @cotonbuzz & @onthevergecambs. Grateful to the expert recorders who shared time and knowledge. Part of @CambridgePPF #CambridgeNatureFestival – so much still to discover, and protect 🔍🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

@norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social lovely show of Swallowtails at NWT Hickling Broad and Marshes earlier this week.

Coton Orchard’s Struggle Reflects a National Crisis in English Orchards @telegraphnews.bsky.social Ben East www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7f4dd8...

Come, come along catch a… 🦋🐦🐭 🐛🐞❓🔍🐝 cambridgenaturenetwork.org/naturefestival/

A walk around a #WilderCoton

Went on an evening stroll in Coton Country Reserve but neither we nor @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social App could ID this #bird. Any ideas❓ 🤔

Glorious day with @ontheverge_cambridge & @cotonbuzz adding plants to the Black Polar Pebble Pond in Coton Orchard. Amazing how much #wildlife has already found it! 💧🐝 #savecotonorchard

The Bonkers Busway Cambs news Facebook page has somehow been silenced but thankfully the @CambridgeIndy is giving locals a voice. To help #SaveCotonOrchard, more info, sign petition or link to donate to @CambridgePPF #FightingFund see @CotonBusway cotonbuswayaction.com

Blooming marvellous morning with Coton Loves #Pollinators at Blue Barrel Cider’s Arcadia Orchard #blossom picnic 🧺🌸🐝 #SaveOurOrchards

“Calls have been made for a safer busway, not just since last week's court hearing, but for years before then.” Dan Mason @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social reporting from Coton Orchard, which is in the path of a proposed new busway. Have lessons been learned? For more listen to news bulletin tomorrow 🌳📻🚌❌

Coton Orchard – over 100 years old – featured on @BBCLookEast last night. With 90% of traditional orchards lost since the 1950s, we must protect what’s left. At Saturday’s #HanamiUK, the wish was for another 100 years #SaveCotonOrchard 🙏🏻🌸🐝

Hanami in Coton Orchard with #Sakura Cherry Tree Project 🌸🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

It’s a sad state of affairs when we have to fight our own council—but here we are. If you can help, now’s the time 🌳🚌❌ fb.watch/y1iz41keJC/?

𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡: 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘆—𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 🔗 m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

GCP backers push an #orchard vs. #woods narrative, pitting communities against each other—divide & conquer. But Madingley Road isn’t moving. A bus lane would nudge traffic over, likely helping the SSSI, not hurting it. It’d also #SaveCotonOrchard, save taxpayers £ms, & give commuters more choice 🌳🚌❌

“We will knock down those who are standing in the way,” says Sir Keir in FT The noble knight, off to slay the storybook baddy—but before mocking a NIMBY, ask why not? If their backyard is your future home, check it won’t be underwater before you unpack.

Who backed the land grabs? Who nodded through TWAOs for GCP’s off-road busways? Now CPPF must take both to a Public Inquiry. As Sir David Attenborough says, “do join them, do help them.” Donate, sign, speak up. Vote at next County elections, 1 May—this fight isn’t over ✊🤨

Blink and you’ll miss it. Two multi-million pound tax payer funded schemes—CtoC (MadingleyHill) & CSET (Magog)—bundled into *one* vote. By the time we’d figured that out, the vote was done. Legal❓ We’re checking. Nolan Principles❓ Don’t make us laugh—next stop: public inquiry 🌳🚌❌✊🏻🤨

Campaigners have written an open letter to councillors ahead of a vote on the GCP's #Cambourne to #Cambridge busway www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/campaig...

Who do I vote for on 1 May to #SaveCotonOrchard❓ 🗳️🤔 That was the big question this weekend. Want to know where county councillors stand❓ Watch how they vote on Tues, 11 Feb. Do they back 300+ experts, trusts & 23.5k petitioners❓ Or wave through the GCP’s costly busway to Grange Road❓

@philrodgers.co.uk @acarpen.bsky.social Have you read that *three* busway votes are on next weeks Agenda❓ W2C CtoC AND CSET❓ cambridgeshire.cmis.uk.com/CCC_live/Doc...

The GCP’s £160m Busway Blunder: Why Nature and Taxpayers Deserve Better #SaveCotonOrchard telegraph.co.uk/gift/580cb38...

£𝟮𝟬𝟬𝗺 ‘𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻’ 𝗖𝘁𝗼𝗖 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱—𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘆 𝗡𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗖𝗣❓🌳💷💧🚌❌ 🔗 m.facebook.com/story.php?st...