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📍Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 30 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
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A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

Which MPs voted to decriminalise abortion last night? Astonished to see the “freedom of choice” Reform and Conservative Party voted against it. One, Danny Kruger, even cast a vote against for Patrick Spencer MP who is currently in court for a sex assault case. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

A great win, with national implications. At last, councils will have to take into account the cumulative effects of livestock factories on river catchments. It's all about increments of excrement. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

Please share this post and thread. @alexismarieadams.bsky.social & @julianhoffman.bsky.social have highlighted Kushner's plans in one of the most precious wildlife areas in Albania. What is it with the uber-rich that they care so little about nature?

¡Yo quiero Taco Fell!

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

A Government showing utter disdain for the environment and conservation. I had such high hopes yet they are worse than Truss.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones. But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A very optimistic wren had a nest in this old bank protection on the River Teviot, Hawick 09.05.2025. Only 40 cm above water level on a spate river. #nest #bird

Very early small pearl-bordered fritillary for Scotland. Riddings Bank, Scaur Water, Dumfriesshire. 11.05.2025 @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Telling truth to power.

BLOG - following the arrest of two men in connection with wildlife offences in Glenbuchat, I ask Who Owns North Glenbuchat Estate? I conclude that whoever it is may have committed an offence under transparency regulations. andywightman.scot/2025/05/who-...

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

After Zia Yusuf says only the Union Flag and St George's Cross will fly on Reform-controlled council buildings, Labour MP Mike Tapp says: "It tells you all you need to know about Nigel Farage’s Reform that their very first act is to ban the Ukrainian flag from our town halls."

This is fantastic news-instead all you will hear on the news is how a batrachian-faced climate denying racist Trump and Putin sympathiser and his party of like-minded clowns are about to take over the country.

Protecting sandeels is essential for the survival of iconic species including puffins, kittiwakes, porpoises & whales🐋 Today's legal ruling demonstrates that the UK Government had conservation science on their side & can keep waters closed👍 Read more👇 www.wcl.org.uk/uk-defends-s...

On another day of record-breaking temperatures Britons went out to vote for a party of climate deniers.

Violette Simpson, Reform UK's candidate in #Calne Central, #Wiltshire. Her candidate statement doesn't include her love of this, unsuprisingly.

Thanks to @naturelark.bsky.social for posting up #anthills I’d like to see more pics but I’m particularly interested in the plant communities (also fungi) that can occur on these mounds of ant magic! Ecologically, anthills in grasslands = diversity. They are also reliant on grazing. Much to say✔️

Extraordinary story @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch says Lib Dems are people who fix church roofs. Yes: that’s why we’re popular and she isn‘t | Ed Davey

I can't comment on the validity of the claims made by Patrick Galbraith in his new book or the counter claims made by the campaign group @righttoroam.bsky.social but this rebuttal letter from them is a masterclass in how to stay objective, focused & rational. www.righttoroam.org.uk/patrick-galb...