BEASTLY paperback day. “If you are interested in the animal kingdom; if you are interested in the past, present, and future of planet Earth; if you are interested in anything at all - then this gorgeous, joyous, sobering book is for you.” IRISH TIMES

🚨BRUTAL: Jasmine Crockett unloads on Pam Bondi. Share widely: "You will be remembered as one of the worst attorney generals in history - an attorney general who has prioritized obstruction over justice, corruption over the law, fealty to the president over loyalty to the Constitution." Absolute demolition.

The Epstein saga is starting to look less like a scandal and more like a classic KGB asset play. Coincidence? Please. When there’s this much smoke, you usually find the Kremlin holding the matches. This goes way deeper than we thought. Andrew Marr: "Let me begin tonight with something that I think is even more important, even more extraordinary: growing suspicions of a Russian connection. Epstein had apparently limitless supplies of money. Where did it come from? He procured many young Russian girls. Why was that so easy for him? The files released show more than a thousand documents which referred to Vladimir Putin, and 9,000 referring to Moscow. The FBI says that he was Putin’s wealth manager. Epstein filed all of his messages. He filmed and taped powerful Western leaders in deeply compromising situations. Why? Doesn’t it make you wonder, at least, about the possibility of a KGB operation big enough to ensnare former Presidents and Prime Ministers, and the leaders of some of the world's most powerful companies? I know, I know, this all sounds impossibly sensational, conspiratorial, a James Bond villain plot in real life. But there is so much smoke billowing out of one of the most extraordinary establishment crises in my lifetime, that it is well worth exploring whether there might be, also, a genuinely ominous backstory."

Just so deeply depressing. If Ministers can’t support something as simple as swift bricks, which can have an amazing impact for swifts, then what hope is there for more complex measures? They just don’t care

It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏

Apparently swift bricks are just too costly. Sorry guys, swifts& their 50 million year old existence& the category of most accessible urban birds, just isn’t worth the cost. Bye bye birdies. If you disagree tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk

Absolutely HUGE: Poland has just voted to ban #FurFarming! This will end the suffering like you see here for millions of animals who are bred for their #fur. 🥹 Congrats to @otwarteklatki for their years of advocacy. This is a massive victory for animals. 🧡

Every farmed animal deserves a life worth living, free from cruelty, cages, confinement and suffering #EndTheCageAge #EndFactoryFarming #RespectAllLife

Met them at dinner in the early days of their odyssey. They’d just been GIVEN a house with 18 acres of land! I remember her faux naive all-in-a-daze response to their good fortune. Conversation was 1-way & hard work. I was asked to interview RW abt her 2nd book & declined.

Watch @_OliviaBlake's brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament. @wildjustice_org

#Birds As humans mindlessly kill and trash the planet, nature gets on with affirming life. We are lucky to have filmmakers like Robert Fuller to remind us of the wonder and the beauty. Kingfisher dad teaches his chicks to fly:

With excellent illustrations on how to conservation lay a hedge, build a beaver dam, make bat roosts, etc!

Watch this rescued hen take her FIRST steps on grass and in sunlight. 🥲

HOW TO REWILD: A Practical Manual from Underhill Wood Nature Reserve for One to Fifty Acres by Jonathan Thomson. It’s brilliant, incredibly practical with great colour photographs & some excellent & very clear illustrations by myself! Available from FOLDE Dorset.

Well this is what I think about the government voting against swift bricks: Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes | Birds | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/…

There are simply no good reasons not to return lynx to Britain. Important study published today in Scotland. linkedin.com/posts/scotland-…

WTF? If Govt can’t even agree to this, which costs them zero & with no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close theguardian.com/environment/…

‘The tropics lost a record-shattering 6.7 million hectares of primary rainforest in 2024, an area nearly the size of Panama…. More than any other year in at least the last two decades.’ We must be mad. gfr.wri.org/latest-analysis-…

The brutal reality of the zoo business A troop of eight gorillas have remained living at Bristol Zoo Gardens since it closed to the public in September 2022, with intruders breaking in to their enclosure @BornFreeFDN @willtravers