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gillianfoxcroft.bsky.social
@gillianfoxcroft.bsky.social
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Derbyshire Wildlife Trust trustee and volunteer; support at Women's Work; former lawyer
Here for positivity, campaigning, curiosity and the natural world.
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Daybreak on the Eastern Moors revealing handsome chaps, tumbling ravens and skeins of pink footed geese
@rspbengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @peakdistrict.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
Thanks @toursnatural.bsky.social for an excellent morning watching the red deer
Collage including red deer stage, golden light and Curbar Edge, Derbyshire
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Appalled at the Rough Guide publications describing dolphin and whale shows as "a highlight"
I've asked them for a response and to ensure this is edited out of future publications.
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @greeneindy.bsky.social @naturescotland.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
An important letter from @craigbennett3.bsky.social @richardbenwell.bsky.social Hilary McGrady of @nationaltrust.org.uk and Dr James Robinson of @rspb.bsky.social
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill | Letters
Letter: Craig Bennett, Hilary McGrady, Dr James Robinson and Richard Benwell say they have never stopped campaigning on the planning and infrastructure bill’s flaws
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The importance of late summer/autumnal garden flowers.
Small copper feasting on echinacea here.
#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#UKWildlife
October 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Today @derbyswildlife.bsky.social we got involved in some #CitizenScience
Even if you haven't got a #GreatUKWaterblitz kit, you can still take part in the Big River Watch between now and 25 Sept
@theriverstrust.bsky.social @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social
@josmithwild.bsky.social
A collage of 3 pics showing Peak Village today..Derbyshire Wildlife Trust info, and participant in water quality testing for phosphates and nitrates
September 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Large numbers of fly agaric @derbyswildlife.bsky.social Lea Woods today
It's a magical enough place but these were wonderful
#volunteering
#FungiFriends
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#Favouriteflower
Alpine pansies at Gang Mine in April @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour
September 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Clive, a former trawlerman, knows first-hand the devastation that bottom trawling inflicts on the seafloor. Now, he's calling for urgent protection of our marine havens 🪸

Recovery IS possible, but only if we ACT NOW!

Have you say 👉 only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

🙏 Picture Book Media & Sussex Underwater
September 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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If you get the chance, go and see The Last Stand of Mary Whitehouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social
Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett ( in multiple roles) are excellent.
Thought provoking, relevant, hilarious and very very serious
Directed by Sarah Frankcom and written by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social
Actors Samuel Barnett and Maxine Peake
September 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Mary Colwell asks whether it's time to talk about a fox cull. I argue it's time to talk about the absurd annual release of 60 Million non-native gamebirds that undoubtedly supports the over-abundance of foxes & other mesopredators.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A last resort’: is culling foxes the only way to save Britain’s vanishing curlews?
Keeping predator numbers down may be last hope for the ground-nesting birds – but critics say real problem is farming practices
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Interesting session facilitated by Matt Browne of @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social and good to see @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social
Messages both realistic and hopeful as to how we make nature underpin everything from corporate boards to local councils
@craigbennett3.bsky.social @josmithwild.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Phabulous Pheasant Show @wildsummituk.bsky.social
by @wildjustice.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social @bobelliot.bsky.social @lucylapwing.bsky.social @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Let hope the absurd and grotesque becomes the illegal
@markavery.bsky.social
@derbyswildlife.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A day of gritstone edges...far from the madding crowd of Kinder and Mam Tor. Cronking ravens and stonking ling heather
#TheTrinnacle
August 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A combination of lawn arrival-harebells...complementing perfectly the erigeron, verbena bonariensis and anise hyssop
@gardenshour.bsky.social
#GardensHour
August 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Sunflowers with a backdrop of Katy apples for @gardenshour.bsky.social
#GardensHour
#SixWeeksOfColour
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire"
#Welldressing
#Eyam
@derbyswildlife.bsky.social @peakdistrict.bsky.social
A well dressing showing Jane Austen characters and quotes
August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Making hay while the sun shines
#tedding
#baling
#pleasantlytired
August 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Today we meet to say goodbye to and celebrate Debbie Bailey.... May her energy and passion carry on inspiring us to get involved, campaign and care.
Thank you @chrisgpackham.bsky.social for the well put tribute
@badgertrust.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Your chance to get involved in #CitizenScience
Sign up via the link below to get your test kit and get involved
Our rivers need us to monitor, protect and campaign
@earthwatcheurope.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @iolowilliams.bsky.social @naturescotland.bsky.social
earthwatcheurope.bsky.social Earthwatch Europe @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social · Jul 30
💧 The #GreatUKWaterBlitz is back!

Between 19 – 22 September, you can help us collect valuable data on freshwater health by testing your local river, lake, pond or stream.

Sign up today to get your free water testing kit 🔗 earthwatch.org.uk/greatukwater...

#CitizenScience #WaterTesting
August 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Katy apples nearly ripe to pick
Edible and joyful....Plant and Produce show ready?
#GardensHour
@gardenshour.bsky.social
#SixWeeksOfColour
August 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-se...

Click on the photo to see a recent tribute by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Debbie inspired me to join, work and campaign with @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
I hope her work will continue and her legacy inspire many more
August 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Please share and contribute if you can. Debbie Bailey was an inspiration, a doer and achieved so much. Her energy in protecting wildlife will live on.
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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A beautiful and productive day @derbyswildlife.bsky.social Peak Village nature walk
Nearly completed the accessible wheelchair friendly path to ensure views of and picnics by the river. Summer pruned the apple trees.
View of wildflower area at Peak Village, Rowsley..with wild carrot heads in the foreground under a blue sky with scudding clouds
August 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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A fingerpost on a nearly fingerpost, with a hint of jeopardy
#FingerpostFriday
#DerwentEdge
Peak District waymarker in front of heather moorland, one way pointing to Cutthroat Bridge
August 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Purple...no rain
Derwent Edge at her finest
Collage of 6 pics showing gritstone rocks and purple heather
July 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM