@riverbend2.bsky.social
Partially retired environment lawyer - living in South Hams.
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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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11. We’re paying twice for this madness. There would be no sheep on the moor if it were not for lavish subsidies, as they are highly unproductive and loss-making. Our taxes pay both for the ecological destruction and for the feeble remedy. Round and round the money goes. Pop goes the ecosystem.
May 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
11. We’re paying twice for this madness. There would be no sheep on the moor if it were not for lavish subsidies, as they are highly unproductive and loss-making. Our taxes pay both for the ecological destruction and for the feeble remedy. Round and round the money goes. Pop goes the ecosystem.
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And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
May 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
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The vast fire on #Dartmoor should alert us to the ecological disaster there. This should not be a fire-prone landscape. Were it not for the elimination of trees by grazing, the vegetation type on the high moor would be temperate rainforest, which is extremely hard to burn. But only specks remain.
May 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The vast fire on #Dartmoor should alert us to the ecological disaster there. This should not be a fire-prone landscape. Were it not for the elimination of trees by grazing, the vegetation type on the high moor would be temperate rainforest, which is extremely hard to burn. But only specks remain.
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And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
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‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
bsky.app/profile/geor...
The vast fire on #Dartmoor should alert us to the ecological disaster there. This should not be a fire-prone landscape. Were it not for the elimination of trees by grazing, the vegetation type on the high moor would be temperate rainforest, which is extremely hard to burn. But only specks remain.
May 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
bsky.app/profile/geor...
‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’
bsky.app/profile/geor...
Pioneering Devon food forest garden at risk after landowner serves notice
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Pioneering Devon food forest garden at risk after landowner serves notice
DEFRA endorses Natural England's recommendations for a presumption AGAINST the issuing of licences for taking wild birds of prey for falconry raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/03/07/d...
DEFRA endorses Natural England’s recommendations for a presumption AGAINST the issuing of licences for taking wild birds of prey for falconry
Some good news for birds of prey! DEFRA has endorsed Natural England’s recommendations for a presumption AGAINST the issuing of licences for taking birds of prey from the wild for falconry an…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
DEFRA endorses Natural England's recommendations for a presumption AGAINST the issuing of licences for taking wild birds of prey for falconry raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/03/07/d...
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FINALLY.
NEW: UK, Germany and France issue joint statement on "catastrophic" humanitarian situ in Gaza, warning Israel could be in breach of international law by halting entry of aid.
"Humanitarian aid should never be contingent on a ceasefire or used as a political tool."
"Humanitarian aid should never be contingent on a ceasefire or used as a political tool."
March 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
FINALLY.
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Curlews, hen harriers, black grouse, GPS collars for cattle and no moorland burning: excellent to hear that the RSPB’s Geltsdale reserve will be expanding in size
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s incredible, the place just swarms with birdlife’: inside England’s biggest bird sanctuary
The reserve in Geltsdale in the north Pennines has been expanded by a third after RSPB buys land
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Curlews, hen harriers, black grouse, GPS collars for cattle and no moorland burning: excellent to hear that the RSPB’s Geltsdale reserve will be expanding in size
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of trees planted in Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest
January 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thousands of trees planted in Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest
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Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully
For the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still…
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
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Flea and deworming treatment for pets is not just poisoning our rivers but also our birds.
Pet fur found in songbird nests contains high levels of pesticides, study finds
Pet fur found in songbird nests contains high levels of pesticides, study finds
Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks
Songbird chicks are being killed by high levels of pesticides in the pet fur used by their parents to line their nests, a study has found.…
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Flea and deworming treatment for pets is not just poisoning our rivers but also our birds.
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To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
January 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire after making back-to-back hand gestures resembling the Nazi salute during a speech celebrating the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump aje.io/uggc7j
January 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire after making back-to-back hand gestures resembling the Nazi salute during a speech celebrating the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump aje.io/uggc7j
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Hard to overstate how catastrophic this is for global public health. The WHO has helped saved literally millions of lives, particularly those of children, from malnutrition, malaria, TB, HIV etc. Pure callous disregard for vulnerable humanity from Trump - as expected.
President Trump moved quickly on Monday to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic. nyti.ms/4hilymo
Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
nyti.ms
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Hard to overstate how catastrophic this is for global public health. The WHO has helped saved literally millions of lives, particularly those of children, from malnutrition, malaria, TB, HIV etc. Pure callous disregard for vulnerable humanity from Trump - as expected.
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Interesting visualization of how vulnerable the US is to climate change. Mind blowing that 49% of the US voters accept that there will be more of this in the years to come.
January 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Interesting visualization of how vulnerable the US is to climate change. Mind blowing that 49% of the US voters accept that there will be more of this in the years to come.
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🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ
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January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ
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Let’s do it
January 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Let’s do it
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I'm very sceptical that Phil Stocker, head of the National Sheep Association, can tackle Dartmoor's nature crisis. But I'm encouraged he's now stated that "we have to start with [Dartmoor's] SSSIs" & accepts there's an overgrazing problem on the moor.
Words we'll be holding him to!
Words we'll be holding him to!
December 30, 2024 at 6:04 PM
I'm very sceptical that Phil Stocker, head of the National Sheep Association, can tackle Dartmoor's nature crisis. But I'm encouraged he's now stated that "we have to start with [Dartmoor's] SSSIs" & accepts there's an overgrazing problem on the moor.
Words we'll be holding him to!
Words we'll be holding him to!
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Perhaps not staggering that natural (& human made) disasters' effects are felt disproportionately more by women & girls, by the global south, & by the poor.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Perhaps not staggering that natural (& human made) disasters' effects are felt disproportionately more by women & girls, by the global south, & by the poor.
What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
New research challenges us to look beyond the initial event to the devastating long-term impacts. Governments must take note, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:06 AM
What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Perhaps not staggering that natural (& human made) disasters' effects are felt disproportionately more by women & girls, by the global south, & by the poor.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Perhaps not staggering that natural (& human made) disasters' effects are felt disproportionately more by women & girls, by the global south, & by the poor.
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Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country
December 6, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country