Tabatha Boniface

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Visited Wistman's Wood today & was excited to find 4 new fenced exclosures have just been installed, protecting naturally regenerating saplings from grazing

Great work by Duchy of Cornwall + their tenant farmer + Natural England to help restore this temperate rainforest

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Another Hen Harrier suspected illegally killed on a grouse moor, her satellite tag had been ‘removed’ Over the last few weeks I’ve blogged about a number of illegally-killed Hen Harriers whose deaths have been barely publicised by the authorities, but instead have been quietly entered onto a …

Another Hen Harrier suspected illegally killed on a grouse moor, her satellite tag had been 'removed'.

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#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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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
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This is exactly what we’ve been saying for months and have the evidence to back it up. Unlike the government who have zero evidence or justification for their approach. They are basically destroying what’s left of our wildlife to line the pockets of the big housing companies.

Obviously!

Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

👉 Last chance to influence the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

Yes, I know, you may be sick of reading about this or feel you’ve already written to your MP several times or are running out of energy on this long running saga - BUT - please, for nature’s sake, write one more time. 1/3

Not until 1979

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What the heck is this smaltz? I knew the 1970s were crap but this takes the biscuit! #totp

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I remember those and when you remembered people's numbers!

Who are these old fellas? #totally? I was only 8

Absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles ‘snatched’ five Shetland ponies leads to inevitable call to ‘shoot eagles’ The absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles had ‘snatched’ five Shetland pony foals on South Uist hit the headlines at the end of August. A crofter / farmer named Donald Cameron said that…

Absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles 'snatched' five Shetland ponies leads to inevitable call to 'shoot eagles' raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/28/a...

Petition: Amend the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to ban wind farms on protected peatland We want the government to amend its Planning & Infrastructure Bill to: 1. Ban wind farms on peatland in the National Site Network and SSSIs in England, and 2. Require the restoration to good conservat...

80 more signatures and petition's at 7K - please sign and share to tell government to Amend PlanningAndInfrastructureBill to rule out windfarms on #irreplaceable #BlanketBog petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The unintelligent rhetoric from this govt is already giving developers the nod to pursue developments that wouldn't have been considered before that'll trash our last important wildlife sites. Shame they won't tackle the real reasons this country has gone to the dogs #brexit and useless politicians

Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

Can you actually believe this?

A swift brick costs £35

But this dire, anti-nature government, must make sure it does all it can to maximise house builders' profits

Totally inexcusable

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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

We are being sold a false story that nature is the enemy. That newts, bats, snails and spiders are somehow responsible for the so-called housing crisis and a blocker to economic growth. This is a deliberate lie - using a cynically chosen group of species that could be found in a witches cauldron.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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🚨WOS’ response to the recent Senedd debated petition calling on the installation of Swift bricks in all new buildings in Wales.🚨

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have got away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015 Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPB’s press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named &#821…

29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.

Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire

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Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

But many of us Britons do want closer links wirh Europe as we hate Americans and americanisms. We are European and always will be. England is the huge disappointment of the United Kingdom

Wearing hats inside just isn't good etiquette. But why the hell we're entertaining these idiots is beyond me!

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂

But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:

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Step up restoration of ancient woodland before it is lost, Forestry England urged Campaigners say just 5.8% of irreplaceable habitat at publicly owned sites has been fully restored in 10 years

Forestry England owns 100s of 'Ghost Woods' - ancient woodlands felled to make way for monoculture plantations.

They've promised to restore them - but new analysis by @wildcard.land shows they won't meet their target until the 22nd century!

Join their campaign:

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Right looks a better colour and I'd expect that to be Yorkshire tea