Little Green Space
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Award-winning project and magazine taking action for nature, climate, people. littlegreenspace.org.uk https://buymeacoffee.com/lgspace
Trees release compounds called phytoncides which can enhance mood and improve sleep. Phytoncides may even help prevent cancer. And native trees are brilliant for all sorts of wildlife - so let’s plant more trees, and cherish those we have already! 🌳 littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/nat...
Please take a moment to sign and back this call for climate action, nature restoration, support for Fire and Rescue Services campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/196457/...
National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 2d agoOur wildfire petition has reached 100,000 signatures in four weeks - that’s 100,000 people urging the Government to take action on climate change.
Looking for a Highland getaway? We’ve just launched our wild retreats and nature experiences for 2027! 🍃 👉Learn more here: visitdundreggan.co.uk/experiences/ #holiday #VisitScotland #rewilding #highlands #gaelic #adventure #explore #wildlife #hiking #canoeing #retreat
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Little Green Space@lgspace.bsky.social · 2d agoA request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝
Extreme weather during summer 2026 is estimated to have cost the EU 180 billion Euros But still governments refuse to acknowledge the scale of the threat and turn away from any serious, effective, action Hard to comprehend really www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
theguardian.com
Train stations are often undervalued & underused community assets. Love to see them being used in this way. “We have noticed incredible amounts of wildlife, bees particularly. Honeybees, solitary bees, butterflies. That has changed a lot, we have seen the return of hedgehogs, we have slowworms.”
‘It’s transformed the village’: the volunteers greening up Britain’s train stations
Exclusive: Five gardening teams shortlisted for Royal Horticultural Society’s new Railway Stations in Bloom award
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A patch of nettles can support over 40 insect species. They’re a vital source of food for the caterpillars of peacock and small tortoiseshell butterflies - so please let a few nettles grow! More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/wil...
📣Sound On This is what Community Powered Nature Recovery looks like. This example was filmed at Grimesthorpe Woods, but it's happening all over Sheffield and Rotherham. Get involved! www.wildsheffield.com/getinvolved/... #TeamWilder
There’s still some space on my 2 upcoming zoom w’shops:bird illustr’n & mental health,10 Oct & botanical illustr’n & mental health,7 Nov.I teach you how to draw birds/plants & how creative activity alters 🧠 biochemistry to lift mood.Incl 10% off materials & full recording: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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💧 Five years of Wild Woodbury 💧 Our groundbreaking wetland restoration has helped the River Sherford flow more naturally and created 40 hectares of wetland habitat. Frogs, toads, grass snakes and dragonflies have returned, alongside lapwing, snipe and golden plover. 👉 https://bit.ly/4yM2m9p ~ Jack
😲 The largest UK ancient-woodland loss this century 👇️ 😡 Oaken Wood in Kent - a planted ancient woodland home to dormice, bats & reptiles - is threatened by a huge quarry expansion. We estimate over 41 ha could be lost 🌳. Please object👉️ buff.ly/YzVFR9A #SaveOakenWood
Hermitage Quarry Threatens Ancient Woodland - Woodland Trust
After destroying 31ha of ancient wood in 2013, quarry extension plans threaten at least another 41ha. Stand up for nature with us and help save Oaken Wood.
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We've put together a selection of our favourite eco-friendly bath and shower products. These are plastic free or refillable, and use natural ingredients – and some support environmental or community projects: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/eco-...
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Little Green Space@lgspace.bsky.social · 2d agoA request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝
We're pleased to see media coverage highlighting how rewilding can make landscapes more resistant to wildfires. To learn more about how restoring natural processes supports fire-resilient landscapes, read 👇 www.wildlondon.org.uk/news/how-rew...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoA Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle
A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝
Extreme weather is complicated (there are over 150 definitions of drought in the literature!), the Earth system is complex, models are imperfect, and we still have much to learn. But it's remarkable how spot-on most of our predictions have been: drawdown.org/insights/is-...
Is climate change unfolding faster and fiercer than scientists expected?
Climate change is undeniably here, and it’s bad. But is it, as some are claiming, worse than even the scientists expected?
drawdown.org
There are only two weeks left to speak up to protect roadless forests — public comment deadline is Oct. 6. Please speak up before it's too late to protect roadless forests. ➡️ biodiv.us/4cVN6P1
These ideas seem like easy to achieve mini goals worth trying, even if you only do a couple. 🌵💦 -E
Little Green Space@lgspace.bsky.social · 2w ago8 easy ways to get micro-rewilding in your garden or local area: 🐞 Let the grass grow 🐝 Ditch the poison 🍃 Embrace some mess 🌳 Plant trees 🌿 Scrub-up 🌻 Plant with nature in mind 🐸 Go wild for water 🌱 Look after the soil 🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ #biodiversity #nature #wildlife
We’re delighted to be partnering with Eden Court, bringing a story of nature and community to primary schools across the Highlands. Every school visited will receive a native pine sapling from our Trees for Life nursery 🌱 👉 Find out more: www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/new-ede...
New Eden Court touring show brings theatre and tree planting to schools
A new children’s show from Eden Court is visiting more than two dozen schools to spread a “hopeful story about community and the natural world”.
inverness-courier.co.uk
Cammy, the proprietor of Bantry Bookshop, preparing for our local launch of Setting the Land Free this Friday the 25th at 6pm. If you're around West Cork or Kerry, and would like to pick up a signed copy while enjoying a glass of wine and hearing me speak about rewilding in Ireland, do drop in!!
Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
It seems we might have a climate crisis.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoEurope's most important inland trading waterway, the Rhine River, dries up
With solar roofs on large car parks, #France generates as much electricity as 10 nuclear power stations, whilst at the same time protecting cars from the scorching heat #ActOnClimate #SolarPower #ClimateActionNow
Repost if you want more 🌿 Nature 🌳 Trees 🐝 Bees 🍏 Orchards 🐸 Ponds 🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg 🚄 Sustainable public transport 🌍 Climate action 🐞 Insects 🌊 Clean water & air 🦊 Wildlife 🦋 Hedgerows 🌻 Wildflowers ♻️ Waste reduction 🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers
Please take part..thank you
Little Green Space@lgspace.bsky.social · 4d agoSeen a fox, squirrel or hedgehog in an urban green space? The Living with Mammals survey needs your sightings! The @ptes-org.bsky.social survey helps monitor changes in wild mammal populations, identifying those in most need of urgent conservation action. littlegreenspace.org.uk/news/living-...
