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Mark the Birder
@northantsbirder.bsky.social
Life long, Birder/Photographer often found wandering around Summer Leys LNR. Got Zino's Petrel on my list 30/07/2020 from a Scilly palagic. Chelsea F.C.
The Government can keep shouting. It's talking to itself.

The YIMBY-NIMBY divide exists only in Westminster's echo chamber.

Meanwhile, the public have made themselves clear. They want homes that work with nature, and leaders who listen.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.

Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Voters don’t see nature as something in the way, they see it as something worth saving.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If politicians keep sidelining nature, they risk the public punishing them at the ballot box.
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
For months, ministers have been pushing a false choice between nature and growth.

Now, new research shows just how out of touch they are.

With data from More In Common, it's time to set the record straight. 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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The clock is ticking on the end of hunting and we couldn't be happier.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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£2,451,885.32. This is the amount of money that has gone to hunts since the Hunting ban. Sickening.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Sickening. Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Bloodsports have uncovered that hunts have received over £2.4 million in taxpayer funding since the hunting ban through subsidies, Covid grants, and tax breaks.The investigation exposes how deeply the hunting industry relies on public money to survive
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Bloodsports have uncovered that hunts have received over £2.4 million in taxpayer funding since the hunting ban through subsidies, Covid grants, and tax breaks. The investigation exposes how deeply the hunting industry relies on public money to survive
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Imagine an organisation called NatureScot allowing a group of men to smash in the heads of baby gannets because it’s their “centuries-old tradition.”

Well, that’s exactly what happened just weeks ago.
485 chicks killed on a nature reserve.
We can’t let this barbarity ever happen again.
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Highlights from my wander around Summer Leys yesterday.
I saw 3 Glossy Ibis, 1 Green Sandpiper, 18 Common Snipe, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Peregrine Falcon, c. 20 Golden Plovers, and 2 Female Goldeneye. @wildlifebcn.org #birds #northantsbirds #Nikon
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A message to NatureScot, STOP THIS!

Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Love that every time Labour make these crap attacks ads - the Green membership rockets up.

And indeed the Green Party overtook Labour in a poll so let's hope they keep it up!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
He ditched the Green New Deal the moment he took power; invented 'grey belt' to build over green; slashed regs & fast-tracked Heathrow's 3rd runway: Keir Starmer is rattled, caught in a pincer movement between Left & Right with no one to blame but 'centrism' itself. He's coming for Zack. Personally.
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Bird flu is being painted as a problem wild birds are inflicting on the poultry industry, but it's precisely the reverse.

Where do they think it developed in the first place, if not in the disease incubators that are mass battery farms?
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Bird flu outbreak at commercial turkey flock in Carlow
Restriction zones have been put in place around a commercial turkey farm in Co Carlow, after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu was detected there.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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80k of you have signed our petition, let's get to 100k and keep the pressure on!

protectthewild.org.uk/ban-snares/
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I've signed and shared.
Please can you.
Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt. Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for killing young Gannets.

Please sign and Repost.

#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
PE2202 Stop the Guga Hunt
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.
www.parliament.scot
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The people most impacted by climate change are the least likely to have caused it. The wealthy individuals most responsible for this destruction stay in the shadows. Naming storms after billionaires will make it impossible for them to hide. Add you name! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Name storms after climate culprits
The world’s wealthiest 10% have caused two thirds of global warming since 1990. The people most impacted by climate change are the least likely to have caused it. The wealthy individuals most responsi...
action.wemove.eu
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,

refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field

Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?

Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Facts. The Badger cull is not working, never has and never will.
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Extreme wealth inequality is killing planet Earth, and hijacking political power so as to be allowed continue.

This is the most important thing to understand right now.
Ireland's wealthiest households create significantly more carbon emissions than lower-earners, according to a new report from Oxfam Ireland.
jrnl.ie/6859962
Ireland's richest 10% produce almost as much carbon as the bottom 50%, report says
Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on the rich.
jrnl.ie
November 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Imagine being a Minister in Scottish Govt & sanctioning 6 months of torching this sensitive & important carbon-sequestering habitat, in a climate emergency & against will of Parliament, just so a handful of wealthy elites can get off on killing Red Grouse.

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/30/s...
Scottish Govt fiddles while grouse moors burn
Earlier this month the Scottish Government announced a delay, for the second time, of the implementation of muirburn licensing after caving in to pressure from aggressive lobbying by the grouse sho…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees. A common farming practice is spreading toxic pesticides into the environment: harming pollinators, wildlife and ecosystems - and we've known of the damage for years... ☠️

environmentamerica.org/articles/how...
How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees
A common farming practice is spreading toxic pesticides into the environment: harming pollinators, wildlife and ecosystems.
environmentamerica.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🎃 There’s Still Time for Half-Term Magic! 🦔

Make the most of your week with family-friendly autumn fun — from pumpkin carving to hedgehog workshops and spooktacular trails!

🌿 See what’s on: wildlifebcn.org/school-holidays

#HalloweenEvents
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM