Hazel Draper
@hazelwildcard.bsky.social
‘Hope is the thing with feathers’. 🕊Climate and Nature Activist, 💚 Wild Card co-founder at wildcard.land
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Out today op-ed by Cacique Roberto "For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It's survival" Brazilian Anacé chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé warns that a proposed data centre and state neglect threaten his people’s land, spirituality and survival www.bigissue.com/opinion/cop3...
I'm an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice
Anacé chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé warns that a proposed data centre and state neglect threaten his people’s land, spirituality and survival.
www.bigissue.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Out today op-ed by Cacique Roberto "For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It's survival" Brazilian Anacé chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé warns that a proposed data centre and state neglect threaten his people’s land, spirituality and survival www.bigissue.com/opinion/cop3...
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Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
"It's surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on Earth." David Attenborough
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"It's surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on Earth." David Attenborough
Bats are so cool!
Happy Hallo-week! 🎃
To celebrate the spooky season, we're celebrating our favourite creepy (or just misunderstood? 🤔) friends: bats! 🦇
Check out our blog to learn more about the ecological importance of these Halloween icons.
wildcard.land/2025/10/rewi...
To celebrate the spooky season, we're celebrating our favourite creepy (or just misunderstood? 🤔) friends: bats! 🦇
Check out our blog to learn more about the ecological importance of these Halloween icons.
wildcard.land/2025/10/rewi...
Rewilding Species of the Month: Bats - Wild Card
Bats are often portrayed as the baddies. Find out why they're actually vital to our ecosystems and how rewilding can help them to thrive.
wildcard.land
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Bats are so cool!
When it’s meant to just be a short walk but then there’s all this fantastic fungi …
October 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
When it’s meant to just be a short walk but then there’s all this fantastic fungi …
The Parliamentary Petition calling on the government to ban wind farms on protected peatland has just relaunched. You can sign it here! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
More info here: saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/n...
More info here: saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/n...
Petition: Amend the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to ban wind farms on protected peatland
We want the government to amend its Planning & Infrastructure Bill to:
1. Ban wind farms on peatland in the National Site Network and SSSIs in England, and
2. Require the restoration to good conservat...
petition.parliament.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Parliamentary Petition calling on the government to ban wind farms on protected peatland has just relaunched. You can sign it here! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
More info here: saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/n...
More info here: saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/n...
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Bridestones Rewilded are buying an area of the Pennine moors in this fantastic community project
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/community/ca...
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/community/ca...
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Bridestones Rewilded are buying an area of the Pennine moors in this fantastic community project
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/community/ca...
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/community/ca...
This petition is so close to 105,000 - it would be great if it reached that figure before the new Archbishop is announced (probably next month) Please sign and share
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
What would Jesus do if he owned 108,000 acres (over 60,000 football pitches) of land? Would he farm the vast majority for profit, or would he use some of it to restore forests, wetlands and meadows to...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This petition is so close to 105,000 - it would be great if it reached that figure before the new Archbishop is announced (probably next month) Please sign and share
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
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BREAKING: Christian Climate Action has occupied @yorkminster.bsky.social to demand the CoE finds its radical roots & stands up for God's Creation: our planet Earth. 🌍 The Church must stand with the poor & disadvantaged against the fossil fuel industry and our complicit media & government.
September 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
BREAKING: Christian Climate Action has occupied @yorkminster.bsky.social to demand the CoE finds its radical roots & stands up for God's Creation: our planet Earth. 🌍 The Church must stand with the poor & disadvantaged against the fossil fuel industry and our complicit media & government.
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Please sign this petition urging the Scottish Government to stop the chronic destruction of our seabed by urgently reinstating a coastal limit on bottom-trawling and scallop dredging. #InshoreLimit ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...
Petition to Bring Back Scotland's Inshore Limit
Scotland's coastal seabed was off-limits to bottom-trawling until 1984. Ever since the limit was removed, the fish in our seas declined as seabed habitats were destroyed. Protecting our seabed will he...
ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Please sign this petition urging the Scottish Government to stop the chronic destruction of our seabed by urgently reinstating a coastal limit on bottom-trawling and scallop dredging. #InshoreLimit ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...
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An old rainforest oak like this, thick with epiphytes and ivy, is more than just a tree.
It's a mini ecosystem. 🌏
It's a mini ecosystem. 🌏
September 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
An old rainforest oak like this, thick with epiphytes and ivy, is more than just a tree.
It's a mini ecosystem. 🌏
It's a mini ecosystem. 🌏
Amazing news for wildlife! After raising funds within the community, Bridestones Rewilding Project have exchanged contracts allowing them to restore this peatland for nature and people. Check out their stunning video …
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September 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Amazing news for wildlife! After raising funds within the community, Bridestones Rewilding Project have exchanged contracts allowing them to restore this peatland for nature and people. Check out their stunning video …
www.instagram.com/reel/DOTo3ci...
www.instagram.com/reel/DOTo3ci...
A walk in the woods today with neighbours. We found loads of different types of oak galls as well as the beautifully named dog vomit slime mold.
September 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A walk in the woods today with neighbours. We found loads of different types of oak galls as well as the beautifully named dog vomit slime mold.
700+ people have been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action. It is a violation of the UK’s international obligations. Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...
End the Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors in the UK
700+ people have been arrested under terrorism laws in the UK- for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them. ...
www.amnesty.org.uk
August 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
700+ people have been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action. It is a violation of the UK’s international obligations. Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...
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Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
Low-cost flights up to 26 times cheaper than trains - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels, 21 August 2025 – A new Europe-wide Greenpeace study shows that climate-damaging flying is still cheaper than taking the train on a majority of cross-border routes – even though…
www.greenpeace.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
My latest blog. This time about seagulls - you’ll never look at them in the same way again.
Strictly speaking there's no such thing as a seagull but if we're to hang on to the existence of some of our gull species we need to do more.
What would the seaside be without the call of herring gulls and why do they steal our chips?
Check out our latest blog.
wildcard.land/2025/08/rewi...
What would the seaside be without the call of herring gulls and why do they steal our chips?
Check out our latest blog.
wildcard.land/2025/08/rewi...
Rewilding Species of the month: seagulls - Wild Card
Though some don't get their greatness, rewilding of our seas and coastline is desperately needed to save our endangered seagulls.
wildcard.land
August 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
My latest blog. This time about seagulls - you’ll never look at them in the same way again.
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Heads up, peatniks, it's #BogDay! We hope you'll enjoy this blog post from @lyndonmarquis.bsky.social about why the #GreatNorthBog needs to be appreciated for more than just a list of ecosystem services: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
Bogs deserve better | Yorkshire Peat Partnership
The language we use to discuss peatlands undermines and maligns them; they absolutely deserve more from us...
www.yppartnership.org.uk
July 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Heads up, peatniks, it's #BogDay! We hope you'll enjoy this blog post from @lyndonmarquis.bsky.social about why the #GreatNorthBog needs to be appreciated for more than just a list of ecosystem services: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
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"Agropastoral activities have impacted the habitable part of our planet—the “Critical Zone”—for thousands of years (...)
They disrupted the balance between soil formation and erosion, leading to erosion rates 3 to 10 times faster than soil production since the end of the Ice Age."
They disrupted the balance between soil formation and erosion, leading to erosion rates 3 to 10 times faster than soil production since the end of the Ice Age."
Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion
Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps
Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion
www.newscientist.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Agropastoral activities have impacted the habitable part of our planet—the “Critical Zone”—for thousands of years (...)
They disrupted the balance between soil formation and erosion, leading to erosion rates 3 to 10 times faster than soil production since the end of the Ice Age."
They disrupted the balance between soil formation and erosion, leading to erosion rates 3 to 10 times faster than soil production since the end of the Ice Age."
We are just 155 away from 100,000. Please give sign if you would like to see our ancient woodlands restored
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We are just 155 away from 100,000. Please give sign if you would like to see our ancient woodlands restored
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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Thanks to @wildcard.land for hosting our #Ghostwoods walk through #HardcastleCrags last Sunday; raising awareness about our #AncientWoodlands and how they might be restored in line with the gradual harvesting of non-native pinewood plantations, to restore the balance of indigenous flora and fauna
July 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thanks to @wildcard.land for hosting our #Ghostwoods walk through #HardcastleCrags last Sunday; raising awareness about our #AncientWoodlands and how they might be restored in line with the gradual harvesting of non-native pinewood plantations, to restore the balance of indigenous flora and fauna
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👻 1 WEEK TO GO!👻
Join Wild Card, XR Calderdale and GND Calderdale in Hardcastle Crags next Sunday for a day of citizen science, art and protest as part of our campaign to #RewildTheGhostWoods!
📍Hardcastle Crags
📅Sunday 13th July
🕑1-4pm
Sign up: buff.ly/y8VrhGo
Join Wild Card, XR Calderdale and GND Calderdale in Hardcastle Crags next Sunday for a day of citizen science, art and protest as part of our campaign to #RewildTheGhostWoods!
📍Hardcastle Crags
📅Sunday 13th July
🕑1-4pm
Sign up: buff.ly/y8VrhGo
July 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
👻 1 WEEK TO GO!👻
Join Wild Card, XR Calderdale and GND Calderdale in Hardcastle Crags next Sunday for a day of citizen science, art and protest as part of our campaign to #RewildTheGhostWoods!
📍Hardcastle Crags
📅Sunday 13th July
🕑1-4pm
Sign up: buff.ly/y8VrhGo
Join Wild Card, XR Calderdale and GND Calderdale in Hardcastle Crags next Sunday for a day of citizen science, art and protest as part of our campaign to #RewildTheGhostWoods!
📍Hardcastle Crags
📅Sunday 13th July
🕑1-4pm
Sign up: buff.ly/y8VrhGo
A great 2 hour balsam bash this morning with the Friends of Colden Clough
July 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A great 2 hour balsam bash this morning with the Friends of Colden Clough