I'd be enthusiastic for a community-led takeover of the Forest of Bowland (Lancaster & Lancashire) - it should be the country's flagship rewilding / peat restoration project.
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"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.”
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wow what a difference!
Yellow flower with red spots and blotches growing out of the paving
This flower has appeared between the cracks in the paving in my garden. Anyone know what it is??
I’m very very close now to giving up my labour membership, what is going on!!
When the train is due in 3 mins, and the station is at the top of an unforgiving hill, with traffic lights.
HR 200
Made it!!!
Whenever you're feeling overwhelmed by it all, nature can always be relied on to provide profound hope, beauty, meaning, and joy.
If you're actively helping nature through rewilding, those benefits are right off the charts. 🌍
This is exactly why Surfers Against Sewage was formed over 30 years ago in the South West. How depressing is it nothing has changed and SAS is now a national organisation ?
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Which guys are those?
This is really upsetting. I love ow swimming. Do you have the link to this data?
Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.*
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
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That's 95k!
We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament.
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A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle”
Is there no end to the greed of these land ‘owners’
In the many rubbish things I lived through in 2024, my cat and dog both passed on. This weekend lovely, though damp with rain, tail-less but v handsome cat befriended me in the Groove Bar Shipley and I was happy to host
Oh this is sad 😢 just finished the chapter on seals in the brilliant book ‘Black ops and Beaver Bombing’ by @fionamathews.bsky.social and @timkendall70.bsky.social
Exciting this will be in Leeds!
Some happy news in amongst the not
Lovely dog! Looks very pleased with that stick
Agree 💯
An experienced cyclist was recently killed just round the corner from me. Hit whilst cycling in a painted cycle lane (which says it all about the value of them). Absolutely devastating.
Oh crikey hope you’re ok. That’s frightening.
It’s really frustrating isn’t it. It does feel aggressive out there, plus the ones that just don’t look. I’m too anxious to deal with it
I did persevere cycling to work for a while, it’s not really that far. But the afternoon traffic was/is just too aggressive and I gave it up. potholes and detritus in the cycle lane (where there is one) didn’t help
Northcliffe park is looking beautiful in the snow
Feathers McGraw!
Bradford: City of Culture. National Media Museum and the Alhambra theatre
Bradford city hall lit up
Rise event: Bradford city of culture. Showing a rapping poet atop the City Hall
Drinks at the Record Club. Curry at the International. Feathers McGraw at the Media Museum. Then event #rise for Bradford City Culture. Brilliant!
The English badger cull is such a huge wildlife tragedy it is now being covered in @newyorker.com. The killing needs to stop.. www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
So much in this incredible photograph, I love it. Stunning colours
Photo: @linda2.bsky.social
This is stunning!
Rainbow over the valley of green fields
A walk between the rain yesterday and there was a rainbow right from the Damart tower in Bingley
Ban foreign nationals from making political donations in the UK via their corporate empires
Or risk billionaires like this piece of shit having even more influence on UK politics
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
