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Mark the Birder
@northantsbirder.bsky.social
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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.
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northantsbirder.bsky.social
Vote Green! @zackpolanski.bsky.social
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 4d
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.
A lone Cormorant perches on a ledge at dusk, silhouetted against a golden sky. In the background, a blurred view of Westminster’s clock tower and nearby bridge structure rises behind it: politics and power in soft focus, nature sharp in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
northantsbirder.bsky.social
Vote Green! @zackpolanski.bsky.social
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 4d
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.
A vertical split graphic. The left side shows a woodland scene with a tall blue bar labelled “64% want stronger protections for nature.” The right side, showing scrubby ground and a dull riverside, has a tiny blue bar labelled “Only 2% believe protections should be weakened.” The heading at the top reads “Voters”.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
northantsbirder.bsky.social
Vote Green! @zackpolanski.bsky.social
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 4d
Voters don’t see nature as something in the way, they see it as something worth saving.
A simple graphic showing three human figure icons along the bottom - two in bright green, one in dark blue - placed over a photo of a field filled with young tree saplings in protective tubes. Large text at the top reads “2 in 3”, with smaller text underneath: “say developers should look after nature.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
northantsbirder.bsky.social
Vote Green! @zackpolanski.bsky.social
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 4d
If politicians keep sidelining nature, they risk the public punishing them at the ballot box.
A graphic split down the middle. The left half has a landscape of green hills; a tall blue bar is labelled “NET 43% are more likely to support a party that prioritises nature.” The right half shows new housing under construction; a much smaller blue bar is labelled “NET 10% say the same for one focussed on house building.” The heading at the top reads “Voters”.
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
northantsbirder.bsky.social
Vote Green! @zackpolanski.bsky.social
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 4d
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. 👇
A split graphic. Headings read: “While they make NOISE…” “The public makes SENSE.” On the left, politicians including Kier Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Steve Reed in Westminster gesture energetically, surrounded by cut-out speech tiles reading: “FURTHER AND FASTER”, “BUILD, BABY, BUILD”, “WE’RE TAKING ON THE NIMBYS”, and “STOP WORRYING ABOUT BATS & NEWTS”. Steve Reed wears a bright red “Build Baby Build” baseball cap. The right side shows a blurred green park scene with bold text: “2 in 3 say politicians are out of touch when it comes to nature.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
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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protectthewild.bsky.social
£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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protectthewild.bsky.social
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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protectthewild.bsky.social
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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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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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protectthewild.bsky.social
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
northantsbirder.bsky.social
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
Glossy Ibis Distant Green Sandpiper Glossy Ibis in flight Distant Golden Plovers
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
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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zackpolanski.bsky.social
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
shakethescales.bsky.social The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 11d
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.
A dishonest Labour Party social media advert (aren't they all) captioned 'Labour is delivering on making Britain a clean energy superpower...' with a picture of Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, clearly focusing heavily on his teeth, even though plausible deniability will be their defence when called out on this ("His teeth aren't our fault..." might be the line), because his teeth are the attack line de jour following an intervention by Right-wing TV pundit and professional sock-vomit Jeremy Clarkson last week. The advert also says: 'Their councillors block solar farms and clean energy infrastructure. Their leader is against nuclear energy. What's so Green about the Green Party?' The words 'block' & 'against' are highlighted in yellow, the word 'Green' is highlighted in green. All lettering is in shouty capitals. This line of attack shows three things: 1. Labour sees the reinvigorated Green Party, and so Zack Polanski personally, as a huge threat to their electoral chances because it campaigns from the Left; 2. The politics of personal attacks is fine by Starmer (as he has proven time and again, against Diane Abbot and Jeremy Corbyn for example); 3. The Labour Party is composed of lying, disingenuous little shits. My main post outlines just three of the inexcusably anti-environment policies Starmer has forced upon us which will set us back years, not to mention the insistence on a 'growth' economy on a finite planet in the throws of climate collapse. In the case of Heathrow expansion, Starmer overturned at a stroke a hard-fought ban on the 3rd runway which followed decades of campaigning. The advert's central point pushes nuclear energy as a clean option, when it is literally the worst option possible if you can see further than Starmer's endlessly growing nose. Sizewell was leaking toxic material within 15 years. See this thread (entitled 'Nuclear meltdown') for further details: https://bsky.app/profile/shakethescales.bsky.social/post/3lyvggmbdys2j
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
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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protectthewild.bsky.social
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
northantsbirder.bsky.social
I've signed and shared.
Please can you.
hughharrop.bsky.social Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 11d
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
northantsbirder.bsky.social
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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zackpolanski.bsky.social
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
Starmer turns to cop to fend off green threat
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Facts. The Badger cull is not working, never has and never will.
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
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.
thejournal.ie The Journal @thejournal.ie · 17d
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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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
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.

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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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northamptonshire.bsky.social
Hedgehog rescue urging caution around bonfires

#Northamptonshire #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
Northamptonshire Hedgehog rescue urging caution around bonfires
"No matter how well a hedgehog looks, if they are out in the day, there is something wrong," the co-owner says.
www.bbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social
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... ☠️

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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.
environmentamerica.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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wildlifebcn.org
🎃 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