Once York Natural Environment Trust CIO - protecting green spaces in York, UK since 1988 died 2006
Joined August 2012
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National Grid really hates nature.
Hereβs more destruction along the Bramford to Twinstead pylons route. In nesting season.
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The best strategy for combating environmental degradation, which is often driven by human activities, is to deploy natural mechanisms and not the largely unnatural interventions that we always pursue.
Nature knows how to heal herself, aid her! Don't hijack the process!
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May 22
London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system β while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
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'...without the farmers, landowners and land workers on board none of them will get very far. Making small islands of biodiversity is all very good, but we need a connected landscape of plenty.'
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"A well-managed transition to nature-friendly farming, healthy soils.. green spaces that cool.. rivers.. wetlands that slow & store floodwater are all essential to keep food on our shelves and helping to protect people, places and wildlife,β
itv.com/news/2026-05-20/goveβ¦
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Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating ββIn accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicableβ. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds.
(This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury)
@PylonsEAnglia
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May 20
"Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid."
Meet who is now the de facto owner of Thames Water. It's a tragedy in 3 acts and it does not end well. πππ
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North York Moors: Police appeal after buzzard shot in Bransdale - BBC News
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May 14
And @BellRibeiroAddy
May 14
Who wants Public Ownership of Water? These MPs pushed for the gov to change tack in the Kings Speech debate @RachaelMaskell @JonathanBrash @annalouisedixon @jeremycorbyn @roz_savage. if the gov wants to show decisiveness, and that its listening to the public is must take action on public ownership
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May 14
And here's the real challenge for the big environment charities.
They got played by govt during the passage of the Planning Act, played by govt during the Cunliffe Review and now they're going to get played again by the Water Bill or are they for the first time going to be prepared to stand up for themselves? π€
May 14
The government's 'new vision' water legislation will be based on a review openly conducted for the benefit of water shareholders.
Big NGOs knew, but still went along with it and 'hoped they could make it better' - they didn't, of course.
Now comes the proposed new law. Big NGOs .hope that they can make it better'.
Seriously - there is no learning - that is the plan, and we are one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world with some of the best-funded NGOs, many funded by polluters.
This is what they fell for a year ago - blog link.
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Pesticides have no effect on health, I keep hearing, but their effects upon the health of our countryside are laid bare for all to see.
May 14
Typical English roast dinner potentially βdrenchedβ in 102 pesticides.
"agrochemical giants rake in enormous profits and farmers are trapped in a costly cycle of chemical dependency.β
Stark declines in birds, butterflies and hedgehogs.
Consequences?
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Apr 7
Why campaigners want a referendum on water ownership
After years of sewage scandals and complaints about water companies, there are calls for the industry in England and Wales to be re-nationalised.
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so @UKGCA Groceries Code Adjudicator moves from @biztradegovuk to inside @DefraGovUK - poss useful & says retains its independence.- vita to be able to enforce strong fair dealing codes incl on cost price increase requests & not subject to big food lobby gov.uk/government/news/supplβ¦
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Apr 3
One in five trees planted using taxpayer funding died due to drought last year, leaving the UK even further away from meeting its legally-binding tree cover targets trib.al/msWDjfl
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Apr 3
An anonymous US official has told Reuters that an American fighter jet was shot down over Iran, corroborating earlier Iranian state media reports.
β‘οΈ Follow live updates: trib.al/qJRjZbq
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Topsoil isnβt just dirt. Itβs the thin, fragile layer that feeds 8 billion people. Lose it, and yields fall, prices rise, and food security weakens. It takes centuries to form and minutes to destroy. One of the most underappreciated assets in our economy.
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Mar 24
The flip side of this, of course, is that developers can use the threat of sky high costs to strong arm cash-strapped local councils into passing crap development for which there are lawful grounds for refusing.
A key contributor to this is the ludicrous costs charged by barristers and solicitors in the UK. I donβt think we talk enough about how the bankruptcy level of costs to have almost any legal dispute determined by a fair & impartial court is undermining democracy & the rule of law in this country.
Mar 24
EXC Does your council wrongly block projects, and have to pay millions in council tax when the decisions are overturned?
We reveal what's going wrong.
Investigation by @JoeCookJ and me, interrogating everyone planning council in England
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Mar 23
Fascinating discovery that blows a giant hole in the "we can genetically engineer drought-resistant plants" claim.
Water, soil, plants are a complex, integrated system
@GMWatch @Beyond_GM #PlanetaryBoundaries
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Mar 24
"The promise to open up the Land Registry would bring to an end a 1000 yrs of secrecy shrouding who owns England, & enable scrutiny of what goes on behind the barbed-wire fences that crisscross the countryside." [1% of the population own half of England]" theguardian.com/environment/β¦
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"It was that collusion between regulator and water industry"
Robert Forrester was an Environment Agency whistleblower who is portrayed in Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' #GMB
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