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verityrhealey
@verityrhealey.bsky.social
artist, writer, filmmaker, critic etc. Nature, heritage, environment, politics and theatre. Current: creator/director for outside it is beautiful. www.oiib.org.uk plant not dairy, "nature is everything"
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A kingfisher called late at night and I thought it was saying Jesús. Now all I will hear when I hear a Kingfisher, is Jesús.
I would love to see a Pine Marten
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Are you someone who cares? If you are and you're not vegan yet, what's stopping you? 🐷💔

👉 Find out all about how incredible pigs are and the truth about how they are treated here: https://veganfta.com/resource-hub/pigs

Clip from: @varun_antispeciesist 

#kindnessmatters #pig #pigs #loveanimals
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Fox in silhouette , shared by @naturehawk.bsky.social #FoxOfTheDay
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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“Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”

— Albert Camus
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Our beautiful show The Flowers of Srebrenica will play again at Teatro Nuovo Pisa tonight and tomorrow
DONT MISS!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I still get bad days. I just don’t let them
convince me that every day will be bad.
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Defending the BBC is defending our democracy - make no mistake. www.defendthebbc.org
Defend The BBC
The BBC serves democracy across the world, it serves the people, and we must act to defend it. Add your name.
www.defendthebbc.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
is anything happening outside parliament tomorrow for the Lords amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill? #planningandinfrastructurebill
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#BatChat with @batconservation.bsky.social is back ! Tune in to the first episode of the new season– bats , bills and battles . . . what's not to like ! Listen now at chrispackh.am/5cdadd
🦇 Our #podcast #BatChat is back!! Listen to the first episode in your usual platform!
We're starting this exciting new collection of interviews with our President, Chris Packham ! Steve Roe and Chris talk bats, Bills and the battle for Britain’s wildlife.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.

#Ornithology #UKBirding

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/s...
Shot Pheasants found dumped in Dorset
Another week and another pile of shot and dumped gamebirds. Thanks to the blog reader who sent in this photo of a pile of dead, shot Pheasants he found yesterday, dumped on the road (B3081) running…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🦇 Our #podcast #BatChat is back!! Listen to the first episode in your usual platform!
We're starting this exciting new collection of interviews with our President, Chris Packham ! Steve Roe and Chris talk bats, Bills and the battle for Britain’s wildlife.
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Good morning, your #FoxOfTheDay today from @billiegee.bsky.social !
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Compulsory housing orders across England, Wales & Northern Ireland to combat 'significantly elevated threat' of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).

But ~60 million gamebirds still running around the countryside...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/c...
Compulsory housing orders across England, Wales & Northern Ireland to combat ‘significantly elevated threat’ of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
Compulsory housing orders have been introduced across all of England, Wales and Northern Ireland in a bid to combat the ‘significantly elevated threat’ of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influe…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
raggededgeproductions.co.uk/sample-page/... oh Morecambe I do love you...childhood memories and things on the beach...things on the shifting sands with melting skies and melting birdsong
Ragged Edge Productions Ebbs and Flows
raggededgeproductions.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So easy and smooth to switch @ecotalk.bsky.social thank you - and why not, to help nature - plus you get a pretty SIM card holder
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .

@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
last full day of Vodafone before the switch to Ecotalk...
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hundreds of MPs and peers are already signed up to attend to hear from scientists , economists and security experts – is your MP attending ? Mine IS but my Mum's IS NOT Check for your own and family and friends' MPs at nebriefing.org #NEB2025 🇬🇧
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
nebriefing.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers,” www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Who is afraid for nature with this government? I am...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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What a face ! Thank you to @glenisilla.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept - Jeton Neziraj/ Blerta Neziraj/ Greg Homann - is wow - truth, reconciliation, forgiveness, fabrication, fiction, theatre, accountability, responsibility, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Kosovo Blood Reconciliation and peace hung up to die or fly?
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Long shot in the dark, but if anyone has any paid work I can do from sitting at a desk, as I am unable atm to be on my feet for any great length of time, I would be really grateful - or even suggestions of where to look for such work. I have writing, some basic photoshop, video editing skills...
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM