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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I've got six log piles and six brushwood piles.

Sunset at the community garden. the sun sets over the wildlife pond!

Everyone’s tidying up for winter — but your “mess” might be saving wildlife.

Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines

#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell

‘I was contaminated’: study reveals how hard it is to avoid pesticide exposure Silicone wristbands worn by volunteers in the Netherlands captured 173 substances in one week

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet.

"Pesticides are ubiquitous, not only in agricultural areas but also in environments far from crop fields".

And we're just starting to grasp implications for #PublicHealth

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I prefer animals to people.

Walking. It means no need for the embodied energy in the creation of an electric bike...

Death's-head Hawk from the Obs moth-traps this morning

The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition.

🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/

Any writers on here who prefer to use a typewriter?

My elderly neighbours seem to have GB News on 24/7...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Fears Drax-powered AI centre may 'burn a tree every time it is used' A new data centre which will get its energy from Drax power station "could end up burning a tree every time it is used", opponents say.

New research finds the Drax AI Data Centre would burn 2.5 MILLION tonnes of wood up to 2030, and then rising to 5 MILLION tonnes going forward

If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...

As a deep green member of the Green Party, I'm extremely concerned about this 'green populist' stance that the new leadership are pursuing.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It. A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

Cars. Ruin. Everything.

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

If you only read one of this trio, make it Life After Cars by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social.

It’s the most accessible and informative, as well as the most practical.

Culling wild American Mink in England. Your thoughts, please.

Any recommendations for good books on british tree folklore?

Any recommendations for good books on british tree folklore?

@barnowltrust.bsky.social
Barn Owl nesting box fitted to an Oak tree today.