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Please support and share this petition to "Remove the illegally dumped waste from Sheppey SSSI Beach and Cliffs.
@rescuehoadswood.bsky.social
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On a day when house building is in the news, we publish a new report - LOST NATURE.

In it, we asked if housing developers have been delivering their ecological commitments.

Answer: NO.

Read the report here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...

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Exposure to toxic PFOS forever chemicals associated with coronary heart disease, study finds. PFOS is globally banned due to health harms but lasts a long time in the environment, leaching from landfill, old airfields & firefighter training grounds.

ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

(1/2) 🎶🎄On the twelfth day of Christmas, Angela Rayner gave to me:

Twelve developers profiting,
Eleven foxes fleeing,
Ten toads removed,
Nine bats evicted,
Eight otters ousted,
Seven swifts a-fleeing,

We now have the absurd spectacle of a prime minister utterly failing to understand we're in the sixth mass extinction and urging more destruction instead.

@protectthewild.bsky.social
@protectallwildlife.bsky.social
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social @rescuehoadswood.bsky.social @danicapriest.bsky.social @journojane.bsky.social
What does he really mean he is going to do?

PFAS forever chemicals are often added to plastics, & plastic containers can absorb PFAS & other chemicals from substances stored in them. New research shows health harms from a combination of PFAS & plastic may be 40% higher than either cause separately. 🧵

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Simon, & others at River Mole River Watch, really bring home the reality of decrepit water infrastructure. Last winter, they raised the alarm when Horley Sewage Works' totally insufficient sewage storage overflowed onto a public footpath, near people's homes, bearing 1,078,847 CFU
e. Coli.

This plan is so ridiculous I can't believe I'm about to write these words - water companies want to build pipelines to divert sewage away from protected rivers to... other rivers & lakes with fewer legal protections...& they want to raise our bills to pay for it...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🆘 Ashford Borough Council rightly refused plans to discharge sewage into the River Beult ✅ But the developer appealed 😡

Now it’s up to the Environment Agency to ‘protect & improve the environment.’ Will they safeguard this precious SSSI, or let it be damaged forever? 💩💧
#RiverBeult #SSSI

Rank.

I will never understand why so many in England just accept that their faeces are coursing through their streams and rivers, all so rich people can make more money.

Seriously, that is one messed up system...

🧵Chilmington Green is a development of 2,700 homes. Developers propose discharging 927 cubic metres of sewage DAILY into a tributary of the River Beult, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Read about it ⬇️ then email to object at psc-waterquality@environment-agency.gov.uk

A beautiful Short-eared owl in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire

#owl #shortearedowl ##shortie #birdofprey #birdinflightphotography #birdinflight #raptors #raptorsinflight #birdlover #nature #wildlife #cotswolds #ukwildlife

Today, in the mild stillness at dawn, a song thrush sang for the first time in four months. Nowhere near his full-bodied spring best of course, yet still glorious. I’m reminded of just how much I love his voice, his beauty and exuberance.

#birds
#naturewriting