Organized by @pietonsquebec.bsky.social, @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social will be at Café Les Oubliettes to launch their book Life After Cars in #Montréal w/ @gabrielleanctil.com 📍6201 rue Saint-Vallier 📅 April 10 🕕 6-8:30 PM #lifeaftercars

Why are we destroying yet more greenbelt for housing, forcing people into long daily work commutes, when all our cities and town centres are largely empty apart from ground floor premises?

Royal Flycatchers. The male boasts a spectacular, fan-shaped crest of bright red or orange feathers with brilliant violet-blue-black tips. This crest is rarely raised and is typically displayed only during courtship or territorial disputes. #bird #tropical

Today = #Wrensday..... @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh

Hiding in plain sight a couple of feet from the Baldwin hide @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh

Interesting to note the major exception: Ireland, where native red squirrels are *gaining* ground at the expense of invasive American greys. How? The come back of another native mammal, this one a predator: the pine marten. Making ecosystems functional again is the best cure for invasive species.

Small changes can have a huge positive impact on wildlife. Far more shocking then that our government REJECTED the proposal to make Swift Boxes [for Swifts , House Martins, Sparrows & Starlings] a requirement for new homes in England.⁠ Where the fuck do we get the 'Nation of Nature Lovers' from?

That is nice to see. Also deeper areas will bounce back in time. Some years after trawling was paused (to save cod) in a small area of southeastern Kattegat, we found high frequencies of slender sea pen. It eventually became a proper protected area that among other things focus on bottom fauna.

BBCFOUR Natural World at 8pm is showing the extraordinary film called "The Octopus in my House" for anyone who loves the Octopus as much as I do 😍

Mossy hedgerow tree #Dartmoor #Devon

How we can save fuel on shorter journeys in cities — a simple, classic message that’s useful every day, but especially when fuel costs are spiking. Spread this #UrbanTruth around. Thanks to @davewalker.bsky.social & @cyclinguk.bsky.social.

Also a reminder that, whereas the Honey bee being one & mostly non-wild bee species & not yet endangered, there are approx. 20,000 different species of wild bees out there, some very rare, that are equally if not far more efficient pollinators that definitely deserve our attention and care.

Big climate episode coming up tonight at 7pm. We talk Iran, energy spike and where do we go next? youtu.be/TCKtvBXh5ck?...

This is what our inshore waters could all be like if we had the will, the insight, the intelligence and the moral awareness to totally ban destructive bottom trawling fishing practice so devastating to marine life .. bsky.app/profile/free...

It is crazy that anyone would even consider allowing this practice in waters they call 'protected'. Incredibly, oil + gas drilling is also permitted in many MPAs, as shown here on our Watershed Pollution Map. 'Protected' is doing some heavy lifting. share.google/bUFsAe4JtXsP...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is about to sign a voter suppression law. Super lawyer Marc Elias is ready to file a lawsuit to stop it: “Florida will be sued.” 🍿

Bottom trawling is so damaging to marine life nothing but a total ban on this fishing practice is sufficient & in the feebly-governed UK, incl Scotland, we can at least ban this plague of life in our waters in ALL MPAs! UKGov's plan to ban practice in *parts* of 41 MPAs is nowhere near enough!

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. This is no joke. Here's how it works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...

Sooooooo true!🤷‍♀️

Greens in Wales could be in Quantum Leap territory following May elections! @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social is an impressive leader and countered well the interviewers attempt to reduce the scope of our green adventure! #VoteGreen

The #BirdofTheDay theme is #snacks — any bird eating. Summer Tanager (with cranefly), Kansas 2020 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Tanagers #FlyoverCountry

Bottom trawling harvests immense numbers of fish. It tears up the seabed habitat the next generation of fish + shellfish need, so populations cannot recover quickly. With cod, herring & mackerel numbers at critical lows, we need to end this destructive practice: share.google/4tYqGHpuFQQl...

Something's desperately wrong with the village ..

@robcrank68.bsky.social It's been such a joy watching the Robins over the years finding their own food at the allotment which is full of natural #snacks #BirdOfTheDay #ECK #birds

The man is free at last

As a gay man myself, let me be clear, conversion therapy is torture meant to psychologically damage and in most cases physically harm/kill LGBTQ+ people and the majority of the illegitimate Supreme Court voted against Colorado’s ban on it. Pure evil, inhumane and immoral.

@luciaoc.bsky.social, one of four journalists in the courtroom daily for Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, talks to @robinince.bsky.social about abuse, justice and the ‘rape myths’ that silence survivors www.thenerve.news/p/lucia-osbo...

A recap of today's #ShippingForecast issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. 🎧 iPlayer catch up: http://bit.ly/bbcship 🚢 Forecast: http://bit.ly/shipforcast 🌊 Inshore Waters: http://bit.ly/inshoreship

Have to .. grudgingly .. give it to The Telegraph .. for their excellent April Fool's posting .. so neat that it's so almost exactly like the shit they always come up with!

This is what this racist motherf'er shows up for. apnews.com/article/trum...

Ahh if this wasn't so tragic .. it would be hilarious! For decades now a small portion of the public have been encouraging drivers to use public transport or to get on their bikes or walk locally for their own wellbeing & the wellbeing of the natural world!!! This what it takes? The fuel cost🙄FAFSs

"Land-based salmon farms are industrial factories, on-land sterile warehouses, unnatural & built for mass production. Salmon packed into barren indoor tanks, denied natural light & space, suffering until slaughter or premature death. It’s farming at its worst .." foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-...

“Even as the cost of infrastructure for active transportation is being used as a reason for inaction, evidence is accumulating that when the full economic cost is considered, driving costs society more, while cycling and other forms of active transportation save society money.”— @sflkirk.bsky.social

In honor of a judge halting Trump's ballroom construction today:

Something positive!

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Hope you were seen promptly & it heals well! Sadly #UkCarCulture is a pestilence everywhere in this country. Here in Brighton & Hove idling your car while parked along a public road seems to be considered a right by some drivers although illegal since 2002 under Rule 123 of The Highway Code.

FAVREAU: “$200 billion could eliminate nearly all medical debt in America, fund free community college for two decades, or feed 42 million Americans for two years. Instead, we're dropping bombs on Iran.” (From @podsaveamerica.crooked.com )

A last cleanser Victoria Plum blossom

How Epstein and Trump's Inner Circle Crime With Impunity open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Makes sense. Word is, pheasants are generally loaded with ticks. And it seems those they carry have an extremely high incidence of Lyme disease too. share.google/M6kQAcKWmCis...

“Every year, we unleash this scourge on the countryside." Brilliant to see David Attenborough address the enormous impact of pheasants (for shooting) and cats (people's pets) on native wildlife and ecosystems. These are *crucial* conversations. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

You don’t make cyclists mix with motor traffic at roundabouts and rely on driver behaviour. You design them so they don’t have to, removing the risk altogether. 📍 ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands