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bobberzins.bsky.social
@bobberzins.bsky.social
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Environmental campaigner and author. Time UK uplands were in public ownership and managed for the benefit of our communities
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
No wonder we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity in freefall

#BanDrivenGrouseShooting
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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moorlandmonitors.bsky.social
🩸Hen pheasant found trapped and bleeding in release pen.
💔Neglect and cruelty are rife on shooting estates.
❗️Please be vigilant and monitor your local estate closely.
❤️Thankyou to the brave kind monitor who helped this poor bird.
🚩More info: moorlandmonitors.org
@animalaid.org.uk @onekind.org
August 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The Guardian rates Mr Polanski as the favourite, but adds "....no one knows for sure”.

The New Statesman also rates Mr Polanski’s chances, praising his “clever comms and outgoing personality”."

Make sure you vote!

#BackZack

www.rossgazette.com/news/ellie-c...
Chowns, Ramsay vie for Green leadership
Voting is underway to select the new leader(s) of the Green Party of England and Wales, with Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay in the running against Zack Polanski.
www.rossgazette.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Excellent to see Ed Miliband taking the fight to Reform & the Tories over their abandonment of net zero.

Ed is right - the vast majority of the UK public support bold climate action & the extremists are those who deny the need for it

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations
Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

@wildjustice.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
🎓 Members of our history and ecology group made a visit to Sheffield archives...

🗺️ We've got saucy historic maps of the moors and other info to digest before we start making beautiful propaganda!

🎶 I'll know my song well before I start singing

💬 Do get in touch if you want to reclaim our moors!
July 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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wildjustice.bsky.social
We’re in Westminster and we’re ready for our parliamentary debate on banning driven grouse shooting – you can watch along online at www.youtube.com/live/dVP_u8X...
June 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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calmandfearless.bsky.social
Moscar was burned unusually hard under the old regime too, the Wilsons. Don't know why. This from the estimable Bob Berzins @bobberzins.bsky.social is handy on Moscar, if you haven't read it already. abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com/p/take-back-...
Take Back Our Land
England Land Reform – Sheffield grouse moors need to be on the agenda
abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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parliamentarygoose.bsky.social
Spot on, @bobberzins.bsky.social. Quite apart from the lack of official scrutiny of spring trap use, allowing a crucial part to be homemade ensures this operation is often ineffective & inhumane. Can you imagine the fuss if you could kill dogs & cattle with devices you’d made yourself?
June 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
📰 The @thestar.co.uk article looks just as lovely in print.

🌱 Reclaim our moors! Are you game?
June 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
✨ Hurrah for The Star!

🎩 Duke of Rutland urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'

www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...

Reclaim our moors! Are you game?
June 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/

www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
Duke urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'
Conservation campaigners are set to bid for a “trashed” grouse moor near Sheffield to “restore it to its former glory.”
www.thestar.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
Thanks, @bobberzins.bsky.social for writing this guest blog. Detailed observations and commentary about what goes on on Peak District grouse moors...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/18/m...
More reasons to ban driven grouse shooting – evidence from the Peak District National Park (guest blog by Bob Berzins)
This is a guest blog written by conservation campaigner and author Bob Berzins who has written previously on this blog here, here, here, here, here, here and here. MPs are scheduled to debate the W…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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wildjustice.bsky.social
Thank you to the 100,000+ who helped secure this latest debate on banning driven grouse shooting.

Please invite your MP to attend!

wildjustice.org.uk/general/plea...
Please ask your MP to attend the debate on banning driven grouse shooting - Westminster Hall, 30 June 2025, 4.30pm - Wild Justice
You will remember that we asked you to sign our most recent petition to ban driven grouse shooting and over […]
wildjustice.org.uk
June 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
bobberzins.bsky.social
💚💚🦊🦊 Cute fox cub action
June 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
Reclaim our moors? I’m game!
June 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
🎉 Fun times on Saturday at our inaugural meeting where we decided to offer the Duke of Rutland £1 to buy Moscar Moor off him, as it is in such a sad and sorry state.

👋 Do say hello if you’d like to get involved and help us reclaim our moors!
June 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
🥾 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.
June 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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markavery.bsky.social
I asked my MP, Lee Barron, to at least pop in to this debate on grouse shooting in Westminster Hall on 30 June and got a very positive response very quickly.

Blog: markavery.info/2025/05/28/a...

#grouse #burning #shooting #Corby #petition #parliament #debate
May 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
bobberzins.bsky.social
Ten years effort from a lot of people and of looks like this abomination of a plastic track will finally be removed from this fragile conservation area

markavery.info/2025/05/24/g...
Guest blog – Midhope track, a final resolution by Bob Berzins – Mark Avery
markavery.info
May 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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markavery.bsky.social
Guest blog - Midhope track (success!) by Bob Berzins.

Blog: markavery.info/2025/05/24/g...

A determined individual can get the right outcome in the end - but it shouldn't be so hard to get public bodies to do their jobs.

@peakdistrict.bsky.social #naturalengland @tonyjuniper.bsky.social #defra
May 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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righttoroam.bsky.social
WE WON!

The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.

But we're just getting started.

It was never just about Dartmoor.

We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
It's paperback publication day for my book THE LIE OF THE LAND - an exposé of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain! 🔥💥🌳

Order yours here: lnkfi.re/JhxHno

Tour dates here: lnkfi.re/PkfOhd

There's been some BIG policy wins since the hardback was published - a 🧵⬇️
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
There’s cheers for @chrishinchliff.bsky.social MP, who’s standing up for nature & trying to make the government see sense with his amendments to the Planning Bill.

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social please adopt Chris’ amendments!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planning bill will ‘push public towards Reform’: Labour’s Chris Hinchliff on standing up for nature
MP says draft law will let developers ‘pay cash to trash’ habitats and urges colleagues to back his amendments
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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parliamentarygoose.bsky.social
In the continuing debate about food standards and imports it’s worth noting two things:

1: the UK objected to the EU ban on hormones in beef when it came in 1986.

2: prior to joining the EU in 1973 it was routine in the UK for poultry meat to be treated with a chlorine wash.
May 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM