Utterly disgusted to see Croudace Homes wilfully clearing mature trees and hedgerows in Shenfield during the height of the breeding season. Century old oaks hosting nesting birds and other wildlife have been felled. We need to place more value on our natural environment.

This is horrific. According to the Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index, the UK ranks 189th out of 240 countries and territories for how intact its nature and biodiversity remain. policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/…

The UK government's war on nature continues, as @HomesEngland plans to build beside one of our most important nightingale sites. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74d…

“Your #lawn is one of the easiest ways to help #nature”, says Plantlife. Observe No Mow May and help repair the country’s disastrous loss of #wildflower meadows. theguardian.com/environment/…

Need a fence? What you actually need is a dead hedge. A dead hedge is exactly what it sounds like: branches, logs, and woody cuttings stacked between upright stakes to form a natural fence. It looks rustic, it costs nothing, and unlike a fence, it's full of insects and wildlife. Birds nest in it, hedgehogs shelter in it, beetles, bees, and spiders colonize the rotting wood. As it breaks down it feeds the soil and you just keep adding to it. Medieval farmers used dead hedges for centuries. We replaced them with vinyl fencing that doesn't break down or help wildlife. Time to go back.

@HfdsCouncil would not like you to know that the orchids and adder's tongue ferns in ancient Grafton Wood cannot be moved successfully and cannot be mitigated for by planting saplings on compacted construction depot soils. BNG just won't happen, but you won't know till too late

Great news for nature 💚 In a bid to add a tad more biodiversity to some ofLondon’s less leafy locations, a rather impressive 14-mile ‘nature corridor’ is currently in the pipeline. Led by conservation charity, Wild Cities, the project would see four London boroughs transformed by the horticultural highway, which is set to stretch from Lee Valley Regional Park all the way to the River Thames via the likes of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Haringey, and Newham. Wild Cities aims to bring ‘unlikely allies together’ for the occasion, utilising cross-sector partnerships to deliver the verdant corridor. Working alongside ecologists, local authorities, residents, civil society partners, and cultural institutions; Wild Cities aims to link isolated areas of wildlife (including community gardens, canals, parks, football grounds, and streets) to create.... secretldn.com/nature-corrido…

He's right. A deposit/return scheme for all the bottles, plastic bottles and aluminium cans in UK is long overdue.

Rare “habitat specialist” butterflies, tied to places like wetlands, woods & flower-rich grasslands, are in steep decline. The white-letter hairstreak is down 80%. Still found in Coton, for now. All the more reason to protect the habitats we have left. theguardian.com/environment/…

Why, why, why ⁦@BucksCouncil⁩ ? This #nature reserve will be significantly harmed..all for more unaffordable homes that aren’t needed. share.google/0f2NwE7Qmdy4Av5…

“A report due to be published on Monday by the Local Councils Network found that only about half of homes granted planning permission since 2012-13 had been built.” thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

I’ve tabled a proposal to ban housing developers from donating to political parties. The housing crisis is too serious for big money influence. Developers profit from high prices and low standards - families pay the price. Ban developer donations. People before profit.

As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, David Eddy asks: Who is protecting our water sources? share.google/0ci0d5M1NXDFvAu…

The UK's war on nature continues: ancient woodland and a nature reserve are sacrificed for Persimmon Homes new development at Flitwick bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vj…

'Green lung' west London nature reserve confirmed bbc.in/40PA1Aa

A petition to stop Botanic Gardens meadow and community garden being dug up for a GAA pitch has received 350 signatures in two days, as locals continue to criticise what they consider to be underhand decision making by Belfast Council. belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfa…

In the guardian today asking gardeners to take the tiny hit from a few caterpillars.. Avoid pesticides , including manual removal, physical barriers and pruning. To help restore moth populations. Its not too much to ask. @The_RHS @thewildlifetrusts theguardian.com/environment/…

Preventing local authorities from pursuing the most ambitious environmental standards that go beyond current, inadequate building regulations for greener homes is shameful & shortsighted, & cheats people out of warm, energy efficient homes 👇 theguardian.com/society/2026…

18/2/26. England. One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk, study shows. Figures from Aviva also show number of homes being built in risky areas is rising theguardian.com/environment/…

RT @Lukesteele4: A real success story showing how re-wetting upland peatlands by landowners and conservationists is helping one of the UK’s…