Jodie Bettis

💡#genius

More spraying of likely glyphosate, a herbicide, by #Israel now also taking place over agricultural areas in border areas with #Lebanon, affecting livelihoods of farmers and posing additional health risk to civilians.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Isreal's herbicide use also violates the sovereignity of the states, and impacts livelihoods of civilians in post-conflict zones. @paxforpeace.nl calls for an immediate stop and compensation for affected farmers. Read our full report and findings here 9/x: paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...

Glyphosate is a weed killer and its potential health and environmental risks makes this a controversial substance, in particular as Israel did not provide any warning ahead to communities, resulting in civilian exposure risks and wider impacts on ecosystems. 8/x

Similar incidents occidents occured in southern Lebanon, where environmental groups such as the Green Southeners, documented similar crop duster planes spraying substances across the southern border with #Israel. 7/x

Additional confirmation came from the ground, where journalist visited the areas and took photos of affected land, with yellow vegetation indicating herbicide use, and they talked with farmers on the impacts on agriculture and livelihoods 6/x

A large area at the town of Kudnah was affected. This particular area was a small forest which was cut down in January 2025, likely due to need for firewood by local civilians, as seen on @planet.com imagery. But now the complete areas is affected by herbicide 4/x

The spraying continues for days, and the expectation is that Israel is using glyphosate, an herbicide, to kill the vegetation along the border areas. After a few days, the impacts showed up in Sentinel-2 satellite imagery showing degraded vegetation from the spraying lines 3/x

On January 25, 2026, several local Syrian social media accounts started posting images of crop duster planes flying across Syrian border areas spraying a substance on the fields there. With support of
@obretix.bsky.social we geolocated this filming locations in and around Quneitra 2/x

End of January #Israel illegally sprayed herbicide across its borders into #Syria and #Lebanon. Affected communities are concerned over the impacts on agriculture and health. We used satellite imagery to track the 55km long affected area. A thread 🧵1/x paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...

Lebanon condemns Israeli glyphosate attack in country's south According to Beirut, the Israeli military dropped highly concentrated glyphosate near the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel. The spraying of this herbicide, which threatens soil fertility, c...

Also @lemonde.fr:

According to Beirut, the Israeli military dropped highly concentrated glyphosate near the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel. The spraying of this herbicide, which threatens soil fertility, could prevent people from returning to the area.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

#NoToWar #YesToDiplomacy

The answer was yes then…

#ISawItComing

😖 Sorry to hear this @monicalennon.bsky.social. Very disappointing indeed. Quite the derailment... 😒

Monica Lennon 'profoundly disappointed' after Holyrood committee shelves ecocide bill Monica Lennon has been left “profoundly disappointed” that her ecocide legislation has been shelved, warning it is “a missed opportunity to protect Scotland’s environment”.

🚨 The Ecocide (Scotland) Bill is dead*. Long live the Bill. 😵

*Ok, well, it’s not quite dead - rather the Bill is ‘paused’ - but who will carry it over the line if its current bearer loses their seat. 😬

#ecocideinScotland #Holyroodelections

www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

💩 Great article in @theconversation.com by @dralexford.bsky.social 🚨

A pocket sized wildlife guide book

A handwritteniInscription inside the cover of a wildlife guide book

🙏 This excellent #wildlife book still comes in very handy to check I *am* looking at what I think I’m looking at.

Thanks Paul & Link xxxx @pauldezylva.bsky.social and @wclnews.bsky.social

💚 Spotted a nightingale today on a walk in a local nature reserve in #Surrey and then a redwing in our garden when I got home!

Spring has definitely sprung round these parts! Roll on #Springwatch 🪻🌷

#birdspotting #LNR #birds #nature #gardens

@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

🤯 I need to speak to a #SketchEngine expert. I have been running ‘compare corpora’ tests on legal texts & am not sure what it’s telling me. 😳

#corpuslinguistics #PhDproblems @openuniversity.bsky.social

🤔 Is the Scottish Ecocide Bill going the way of the UK Ecocide Bill? It’s rapidly running out of parliamentary time and may fall before consensus can be reached.

#ecocideinScotland #EcocideLaw

Solidarity, sister. 💚

Woah! 1970‘s childhood flashback 😆

Online Premiere Screening & Live Director Q&A | EightySita Join our one-time online screening of Rave On For The Avon, 86mins, followed immediately by a live Director Q&A hosted by Finisterre and Surfers Against Sewage

Here is the link to the first-ever online screening of RAVE ON FOR THE AVON - a joyous, defiant documentary about a community fighting to protect the river they love. The film also features Kim Kaos aka Goddess of the Wye.
Thursday Feb 19 7:30 PM via this link:
www.eightysita.com/event-detail...

Thin strips of paper with typed text on laid out neatly on a table

🧐 Today I shall be mostly conducting (Phase 4) reflexive thematic analysis of parliamentary discourse around criminalising ecocide in Britain. 💚

#phd #postgradresearch

@ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social @openspaceou.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

China — China! — has signed off on a report that warns focusing on unchecked economic growth is contributing to the destruction of global biodiversity.

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

📢 New IPBES report… ‘Current conditions perpetuate business-as-usual and do not support the transformative change necessary to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.’

www.ipbes.net/node/97532

We must confront the reality that we may have reached the limits of a solely fines-based model. The new water regulator, must have the necessary tools to hold companies & individual members to account for serious & persistent failings; otherwise it will not succeed, just as other regulators have not

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Thanks for all your support, Jodie!