Excellent news from the Middle Marches Community Land Trust who have hit their funding target to purchase White Grit Meadows and thank you to everyone who donated or shared to help make this happen

More land into community ownership, White Grit another SSSI, newyddion gwych!

🦋 Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips 💙 We’ve launched a crowdfunder to restore flower-rich grasslands at one of the South Wales Valleys’ most important wildlife sites. Help us remove invasive scrub and safeguard rare butterflies, bees and grassland wildlife. 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-s...

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Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey!

‘The job of a lifetime’: Line of Duty to return for seventh season

I’ve always considered crypto a purely speculative investment, and despite being financially literate I still don’t understand the fundamentals. Everyone say they make money on it, but what happens when no one makes money on it

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Natural England tried to price us out of taking legal action against Badger culling but it backfired when the High Court threw out NE's claim ⚖️ We continue. Substantive legal challenge against NE Badger cull licences takes place in December 🦡 Press release 🔽 wildjustice.org.uk/badgers/high...

It's now clear that the gov't are NOT proposing to repeal the Protected Landscapes duty 🙌 A huge thank you to the more than 200 charities, businesses & organisations who joined us in writing to Keir Starmer 💚 Now to focus on improving our Protected Landscapes... www.cnp.org.uk/news/plans-t...

Trump declares war on Norway

Our National Parks are at risk. ⚠️ From the rugged Lakes to the sweeping South Downs, these landscapes define us and our future. They sustain wildlife, communities and our wellbeing - and they must be protected. A future that puts them at risk isn't what anyone voted for.

We can’t afford to weaken National Park protections ⚠️ But there are rumours that some in Westminster want to remove the Protected Landscapes duty - the only real power to secure action for nature We can't let 30 years of campaigning go down the drain https://bit.ly/48OseaX

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shropshire Council worsening financial situation is now predicting an overspend. They and other Councils are hurtling towards bankruptcy, yet public debate consists of immigration, immigration and immigration. We are truly f…..

Climate change is already damaging the nature, beauty and heritage we care for. Without deep and sustained cuts to emissions, nature faces an even more perilous future and the places people love will continue to suffer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be an act of national self-harm🚨 It inspired laws across the globe, billions in green investment, and a promise to protect future generations🌱 That promise must not be broken⛓️‍💥 Read more👇 www.wcl.org.uk/ripping-up-c... #ClimateChangeAct

Enforce the PSPO – No More Hunt Privileges in Shropshire protectthewild.org.uk/ludlow-hunt/

Wave goodbye to Sandhurst & Aldershot Beagles 👋🏻 Read about their demise in our latest article 👇🏻 www.huntsabs.org.uk/yet-another-...

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

Please support if you can. This is one of the loveliest places in the UK, wonderful for walking, right on the Wales/Shropshire border. Close to my heart. Thank you. 💚

Can you help the Middle Marches Community Land Trust raise 45,000 pounds to buy five acres of botanically rich meadow at the foot of Corndon Hill? The site has been looked after by the present owners for 23 years, but they now need to sell. So many of these wonderful meadowlands have been lost 😢

Hi everyone, this is a new account and it's for Shropshire Badger Group ... we'll give Bluesky a go and see how easy it is for us to manage alongside our other accounts but it would be great if you could follow us #badger #badgers #wildlife #wildlifephotos #wildlifephotography #mammal #mammals

In what must be a first, the govt has tripled the size of a National Nature Reserve and included a Community Land Trust as an Approved Body which owns ans is actively buying land within the reserve. www.gov.uk/government/n... cc @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Just buying a couple o cards can help buy the meadows

White Grit Meadows Appeal - 5 acre SSSI, another brick in the Stiperstones NNR middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk/white-grit-m...

www.gov.uk/government/n.... Super 👌

Help us secure and protect a rare and precious wetland landscape 💚 Two passionate bird enthusiasts have pledged £20,000 in matched funding to help inspire others to give. While the pot lasts, your donation will be matched pound for pound. Donate now 👇 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/appeals/prot...

Dear Bluesky nature-lovers... The wonderful folk at @kernowconservation.bsky.social are raising funds to scale up their #Cornwall Water Vole reintroduction project. Do please help if you can, by donating and/or sharing www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/expanding-... Thank you! 🙏 #wildlife #nature

These Coldplay concerts are getting out of hand.

Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns tells Times Radio that she doesn’t believe climate change exists, and that it’s just a “racket” for some people to make money. If Reform win the next election, the UK could become a very different place quite quickly.

🥾 Visiting Moscar, a grouse moor bordering Sheffield owned by the Duke of Rutland. 🪶 People were angry at the sorry state of the land, due to it being managed for grouse shooting at the expense of all other life 💷 We’re offering the Duke £1 to take it off his hands as it is in such a poor state.

Brilliant the tide is turning @juliandean99.bsky.social

Renaming a criminal gang doesn’t make it less criminal. Are you concerned that there is a criminal gang operating from your constituency @juliabuckley.bsky.social

Credit to my MP @juliabuckley.bsky.social she is always prepared to listen, the issue is her government who appear deaf to environmentalists concerns

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p... I thought we’d put all this behind us with the change in Government, seems not @juliabuckley.bsky.social so here we go again

Brown hares can currently be shot all-year round , despite an estimated decline of 80% in the last 100 years . Please sign the petition now calling on the Govt to introduce a close season from Feb – Sept . Thank you !

Biodiversity action in Pontesbury. Starting from a low base, a Local Nature Recovery Plan is slowly emerging. With SWT, SC, NE and MMCLT having a major presence in the area, more engaged Parish Councils and a re-energised RVCWG, the future is looking brighter

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One of Shropshire’s new Reform Cllrs has been suspended already, Hodnet is a place to avoid

Shrewsbury Town Council LD 10, Lab 4, Grn 3, Ref 1, Con 0 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve just realised that the North Shropshire Tory dinosaurs have gone extinct ☄️🦖

Today we will finally see the end of Tory domination of political control in Shropshire. Whatever coalition replaces them can’t possibly be any worse and we may get an administration that actually represents the majority rather than claim legitimacy through a fictional silent majority

Want to know how to respond to planning applications? Our friends @cprecountryside.bsky.social and www.nalc.gov.uk have produced an invaluable guide - download for free here: www.cpre.org.uk/resources/ho...

Tories will be Tories, this one is a particularly nasty piece of work, really scraping the barrel in Shropshire

Big let down, since it was taken over by Heineken, community ownership?

Notes from the Hill

Trump must be a genius because I can’t work out how he’s making America great again