Please slow down on country roads. You never know what’s round the corner. horseandhound.co.uk/news/dri…

The #TimeForChange is now! Join me in responding to the government’s hunting consultation and help #EndHunting @LeagueACS takeaction.league.org.uk/pag…

Barnaby Philip John Webber 11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔 If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity. Let his face today burn bright. Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚 For You. For Grace. For Ian.

Brian May didn't just donate money to animal welfare. He personally purchased British farmland and forests with his own money ~ and converted them into permanent wildlife sanctuaries. He resigned from the RSPCA for not doing enough. He refuses to play Glastonbury over badgers. The Save Me Trust is not a side project. It is Brian May's second career. Most rock stars put their name on a charity. Brian May buys farmland for his. The Save Me Trust was founded in 2009 by Brian May and conservationist Anne Brummer — originally to campaign against the possible repeal of the Hunting Act in the UK. It has never stopped growing since. Today Save Me Trust campaigns against fox hunting, the badger cull, factory farming, live export, trophy hunting, driven grouse shooting, the use of snares, and the captivity of orcas and other cetaceans. But what most people don't know — is what Brian May has funded personally. The Save Me Trust manages private land ~ purchased and protected specifically for this purpose by Brian May himself. Land that was previously wilderness-deprived commercial forest or farmland. Enhanced. Restored. Converted into wildflower meadows. Protected permanently. The Trust operates alongside Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue ~ which rehabilitates injured British wildlife and releases them back into the wild through secure soft-release sites that Brian May's funding helps maintain. In 2023 ~ Proud Galleries presented a £5,000 cheque to Save Me Trust ~ generated from ticket sales and book signings at Brian May's Stereoscopy Is Good For You exhibition in London. Every event Brian May does ~ feeds back into the animals. He resigned from the RSPCA as Vice President in 2024 ~ publicly ~ because he felt even they weren't doing enough. He refuses to perform at Glastonbury because its co-founder supports badger culling. He has addressed Parliament directly. Led protests through London. Fronted BBC documentaries. Funded research. Bought countryside. A man who once played to 250,000 people in Brazil — Spends significant portions of his personal fortune buying British farmland. To give Hedgehogs somewhere safe to sleep. Thank you for caring for the animals @DrBrianMay 🙏.

Watching Clarksons farm 🧑‍🌾 A clip re them talking about all the punitive measures Labour have burdened our farmers with ... What Government would penalise their own food makers and put them at a disadvantage to foreign farmers and make their jobs nigh on impossible , which would finish many farms , our food security and harm our economy and which would result in lesser foreign produce dominating in the U.K. ... but relying also on the ability of such food being able to be shipped here. Plus the shipping would cancel out any environmental punitive measures forced on British farmers. It makes NO SENSE‼️‼️ Unless we have people in positions of power who want to destroy the U.K. Then such insanity makes sense And only then @JeremyClarkson #FairnessForFarmers

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Definitely all due to the policies taking money fr everyone & penalising business. Now more people unemployed taking money from government. Well done @RachelReevesMP you are killing business & putting people on the dole! Excellent work!

Very sad.

Listen to farmers not supermarkets or politicians

A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

...and then government cuts down the newly planted trees to put up non recyclable wind turbines. NetZero nonsense.

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it. Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at. Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets. That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting. This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid. So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram. The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck. And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

Nature groups have pleaded with swimmers to give wildlife a wide berth after dozens of people swam in a nature pond on Hampstead Heath among nests of baby birds. Swans and their 12-day-old cygnets were disturbed by hordes of splashing revellers in the north London park on Monday as London reached record 35C temperatures. In one video, a swan was seen poking an unhatched egg with its beak after it fell into the water during the chaos. Conservationists responded with dismay after a video was shared on social media of the scenes, which the City of London called “utterly appalling”. Coots, moorhens and swans were seen guarding their eggs and young as people obliviously splashed around them. There are large signs around the pond urging people not to swim as it is a wildlife conservation area. The unseasonably hot weather has meant that people have been going into water sources en masse to cool off. This has coincided with the nesting season for water birds. London’s outdoor swimming ponds and lidos were busy and booked up during the heatwave, meaning some people went to swim in unauthorised areas. The RSPB said it was “a crucial time of year for breeding birds which just want to nest and care for their young in peace”. The bird charity urged people to swim in authorised, lifeguarded spaces rather than nature reserves. “Along with the dangers of swimming in unauthorised places, there is a significant risk of disturbing wildlife. Many species are already under huge pressure and disturbance can make a parent abandon their nest, putting eggs and chicks at risk. Everyone has a part to play in protecting nature so we’d urge people to be responsible and give birds and other wildlife plenty of space when outdoors this summer,” it said.

SOCIOPATH OF THE DAY! 😡 😡 Trophy hunter Philip Glass ~ “God says we have dominion over the animals. That means we can do what we choose with them. It is my divine right to shoot this #Elephant!" RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on trophy hunting NOW!! #BanTrophyHunting

If you were on Hampstead Heath ignoring the ' NO SWIMMING ' sign, splashing in the pond, then YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for the loss of the lives of the swans.

All down to the uni-parties running this nation for themselves rather than the British people

👇🏻This just because of Net Zero [and the evil Uniparty.....]

Beyond sad