#Warwickshire Cooucillors repeated "attacks on staff, partner institutions and use of his role for constant cheap and nasty political points scoring" considered to violate "rule of law, democratic norms and basic decency." #standards
Reminder the the deadline to apply to become our new Wales Officer is midnight tonight, Monday 23 Feb.
So if you plan to apply, better get your skates on: you don't want to miss out!
Here's that link again:
bsbi.org/about/people...
While the exact cause of the seabird wreck is still to be determined, recent winter storms will have made conditions at sea very challenging for seabirds
Yes heartening news
(Good to see 1st aim of 1st National Park in #Scotland referenced in reasoning;
Also better respecting native #woodland & taking a more considered approach to #flooding)
#FairerPlanning #resilience @plandemoc.bsky.social
smart !
This wee Wren on a #fencepost with lichens on at #Coul East Sutherland
Reveals: "leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath,.."
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They "do not care" about the #climate because they don’t see it as a problem, which is "a form of climate denial" www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q... #ClimateActionNow
"a ‘negative child benefit tax’ on people ‘who don’t have offspring.’"
Have I got newts for you?
Join our North of Scotland group for an online talk from Danny O’Brien, project lead for the UK’s most northerly Amphibian and Reptile Group.
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"Aluminium bottles can be 90% lighter and much thinner than glass – cutting down on shipping costs and energy, and are much more readily and easily recycled"
#politics
Zahawi reportedly one of various “senior Reform politicians” that have been "amassing close ties" to the UAE government, “an autocratic monarchy whose wealth is heavily derived from oil and gas revenues”. www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/t...
Not very #transparent
Maybe some voters in #Scotland consider it misleading to dismiss net worth of a Scottish parliament hopeful (& buyer outright of a pricey Loch Lomond mansion) as “not of any relevance to anybody.” Or that his “pretty transparently” claim is fair. #politics #FairerScotland
Indicates Oxygen Conservation claims “it fully supported” #transparency but said “confidentiality on sales prices was often requested” by the seller
#Taymouth #DiscoveryLandCompany #GlenDye (? unstated if #Balavil #kinrara or other purchases in #Cairngorms NP examples)
#Land #Scotland
Yes Loch Ness & L. Kemp in #Highland have cherished landscapes with sensitive #ecosystems that are now in need of funding help
Ancient #Woodland, #Salmon, Pearl #Mussel, #wildlife #FairerPlanning #EnvironmentalJustice @plandemoc.bsky.social @ariane-burgess.bsky.social @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social
indicates: delay is what turns "manageable risk" into crisis
#ClimateActionNow
"In the oceans, kelp forests tended by sea otters can sequester up to 12 times more carbon than forests not tended by them. That’s because sea otters love to eat sea urchins, who can chow down on entire strands of kelp if left unchecked."
mentions concern for future of #Salmon in #Wales
@charliewhelan.bsky.social @feargalsharkey.bsky.social
Mentions : The US did not pay its contribution to the UN's regular budget in 2025
Air #Pollution
( indicates finds of some high levels in some woodland
"When trees are swaying they are kind of sweeping microplastic from the atmosphere," )
Mentions "Evidence is emerging of multiple harms to human and environmental health from Pfas, with two of the previously most widely used forever chemicals now largely banned after research linked them to multiple forms of cancer."
(No lapse but more like an accurate observation)
This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇
Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.
The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
#misinformation #London #politics
Yes this January 2026 letter by a #London MP shows insight & good #manners
(Includes reference to inattention to #Clacton constituency failure to follow #rules & #misinformation about "greatest" city) #politics
#politics #funding #trust
#Butterfly Conservation volunteers "say the species’ recent success in south Wales, is down to two partners – the National Trust and the South Wales Trunk Road Agent.
Both organisations reduced the amount they cut back their hedgerows, and that has allowed the Brown Hairstreak to thrive."
Indicates "it is expected as many as 200 people an hour could use the upgraded 2.5 metres wide route."
PFAS "...are used in many everyday products, from cosmetics to frying pans, as well as products used by emergency services and the military, such as firefighting foam" #health
making #ecological collapse "profitable is not" #restoration
