Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...

Genuinely a bit surprised the Tories have not paid more of a penalty for torching their previous stance that UK action on climate change was good and necessary. The retreat into what borders on Trumpist climate denialism has been remarkably rapid and has happened with close to zero push back.

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says @billmckibben.bsky.social, co-founder of @350.org and founder of @thirdactorg.bsky.social.

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Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey

Despite more than 70 years of full legal protection, raptor persecution remains a serious and persistent wildlife crime. The Yorkshire Dales is one of the UK’s worst-affected areas, with 152 confirmed...

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Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law @righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say

Report from group of MPs calls for broader access to rivers, woodlands and fields to improve connection with nature

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Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament. @wildjustice.bsky.social

Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables. Come on world, this IS possible! And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉 (graphic from grid.iamkate.com )

SAVE THE DATE: Our petition to Ban Driven Grouse shooting will be debated in parliament on June 30th. We be sharing a briefing for you to send to your MPs next week - watch this space!

This whole article is grim reading, but I did a literal double-take when I read this sentence: "A study published this month by the James Hutton Institute found that after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%."

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot

Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Let’s join Amsterdam , Sydney , Edinburgh and France in banning fossil fuel advertisements and sponsorships , sign my petition to force a debate in Parliament on the issue . lovera.ge/ban-ffa

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship

Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

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