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Amber in the shadows . Thanks to @BELLEGREENWICH for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

Saturday, the 30th of August saw our annual event with Les Clarke, a local expert in the study of bats. He has been assisting Westcombe Woodlands for several years. The most common species in the woodlands is the pipistrelle and occasionally Soprano Pipistrelle are recorded.

We’ll be weighing everything we harvest on the day to see how many meals we’ve grown and how much CO2 we’ve saved compared to supermarket produce! 🙂

Poster for CSCG’s Urban Harvest open day on Saturday 6 September 11am til 2pm

It’s Harvest Time at CSCG! Join us on Saturday 6 September to celebrate our Urban Harvest with @capital_growth. There’ll be plenty of delicious home grown treats to sample and lots of family activities to get stuck into. Details below 👇

A dragonfly perched on a wooden pole

A fox peeking through foliage

Black coloured tomatoes hanging from a branch

Taken in the lovely Christchurch Community Garden today. #Greenwich @cscglondon.bsky.social
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Dragonfly #Fox #Harvest

A fox peeking out of undergrowth

#FoxOfTheDay #Fox #Greenwich @cscglondon.bsky.social #Nature #LondonWildlife
#UrbanFox @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass

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Greenwich Council contractor driving down the pavement spraying glyphosate on 4 March 2025.

That moment when you realise a contractor employed by Greenwich Council is driving down the pavement towards you at speed spraying glyphosate into the air…. 😡

Poster showing Rose Garden action day, Blackwall Lane, SE10. 600 hedgerow trees to be planted

Join us just up the road from our garden on Saturday to start the transformation of this little green space into an oasis for humans and wildlife alike. 600 hedgerow trees to be planted. 👇👇

'Sustainable streets' CPZ consultation launched by Greenwich Council - The Greenwich Wire Greenwich Council has started a consultation on “sustainable streets” and controlled parking zones in six areas of the borough. Residents in Charlton, Kidbrooke and Blackheath, Plumstead, Shooters…

Greenwich Council has started a consultation on “sustainable streets” and controlled parking zones in six areas.

Residents in Charlton, Kidbrooke and Blackheath, Plumstead, Shooters Hill, West Thamesmead and Woolwich are being asked about what they think about traffic and parking.

Restoring predators, restoring ecosystems: Yellowstone wolves and other carnivores drive strong trophic cascade A new study reveals the profound ecological effects of wolves and other large carnivores in Yellowstone National Park, showcasing the cascading effects predators can have on ecosystems. In Yellowstone...

Good news for a change. Today we published: Restoring predators, restoring ecosystems: Yellowstone wolves & other carnivores drive strong trophic cascade
@nywolforg.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social
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REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS We need safe and legal routes, not boasts about which party can be the cruellest. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ With screenshot of Labour social media advert that reads: BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS LABOUR HITS LABOUR HITS 5 YEAR HIGH IN MIGRANT REMOVALS

🤦‍♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding.

Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates?

If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.

Musk crowns himself in the Oval Office

I'm getting all my tweets (2012-2024) from the bad place transferred over to Bluesky by @blueark.app. The only thing is that they lose their date stamps in the process. So they appear to be newly posted, but they aren't. Thanks for all the interactions though.

River of flowers, red, yellow and white, disappearing like a path into the distant hills

"Where have all the flowers gone?" - woodcut by Suffolk painter and printmaker, Miranda Mott

#flowers #art #woodcut

Greenwich consulting on 40 new cycle storage hangers - Murky Depths Greenwich Council are consulting on the location of up to 40 cycle storage hangers across the borough set to be installed

Greenwich consult on locations for 40 cycle storage hangers across borough www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/02/03/g...

Picture of untouched lawn full of wild flowering plants followed by picture of conversion to astroturf.

@shitlawns.bsky.social Royal Borough of Greenwich has forgotten it has a Biodiversity Action Plan. Surely this would have been better the other way around 😕

Ban Lime bikes from Greenwich if they don't clean up their act, councillors demand - The Greenwich Wire Greenwich Council could back a call to ban Lime bikes in the borough next week after two frustrated councillors spoke out against the company for not taking action against riders dumping their bikes…

Greenwich Council could back a call to ban Lime bikes in the borough next week after two frustrated councillors spoke out against the company for not taking action against riders dumping their bikes on pavements.

Thanks for organising, Joe. Looking forward to more. 👍

Volunteers managing some Gorse at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich, to start the process of regrowth, to maintain a dynamic mix of heights and ages of scrub. This allows wildflowers and grasses to grow in the temporary clearing before the Gorse grows back.

Volunteers pushing the bramble line back to help maintain the rough grassland and create some sunny open spots for invertebrates at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich.

A great bunch of people, those who were still there at the end of the volunteer session! Thanks to our volunteers we are keeping the habitat dynamic where possible, allowing a varied mix of vegetation types, open spaces, dense scrub and regrowth. This helps to maximise the value for invertebrates and to prevent the habitat becoming uniform.

Small Copper butterfly is one of the many insects that benefits from habitat work at Vanbrugh Pits (this photo was taken not far away in a previous summer, and is for illustrative purposes here). They are small orange and black butterflies that are resident at Vanbrugh Pits. They lay eggs on Sheep's Sorrel, which grows amongst the Gorse stumps before it regrows. They feed at ragwort and other flowers, which also appreciate sunny clearings that result from the habitat work. We look forward to seeing them again in May.

Thanks very much to the Vanbrugh Volunteers who helped with a bit of habitat management in #Greenwich on Sunday. It's to maintain a dynamic mix of habitats of varying structure, openness, and stages of growth, to maximise the benefit to wildlife. We also cleared a fair bit of litter!

Swanscombe Peninsula outcome showcases the power of your dedicated campaigning “The RSPB is delighted that Swanscombe Peninsula has been saved for wildlife - it is an amazing Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), alive with birds, wildflowers

Good news for Swanscombe SSSI's exceptional wildlife, and for the local community! Swanscombe - a site rich in natural wonders, from orchids to Nightingales - has been under threat for years from an ill-conceived theme park. Also nice to see my photo in use 🙂
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1/3 I am delighted that it seems the final nail has gone into the coffin of this environmentally and financially ruinous scheme. The Tory-led county council spent £800,000 a month trying to keep it alive while cutting vital services. But we're not at the end of this saga yet.

Pesticides in public spaces - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament That this House notes that many local authorities and other public authorities use pesticides to manage unwanted vegetation in public places such as parks and green spaces, streets, school grounds, ch...

Brighton’s previous ban on using glyphosate in our neighbourhoods should be reinstated and replicated across the country.

Write to your MP and ask them to add their name in support of my Bill! 👇
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Pleased to have won cross-party support for my Bill to introduce a national ban on pesticide use in public spaces!

More needs to be done to stop councils using toxic chemicals which are a danger to people, pets and children using these spaces, and the wider environment 🌱🐝

Truly awful.

Boy, 14, stabbed to death on 472 bus in Woolwich, London A 14-year-old boy is stabbed to death on a double-decker bus, according to police.

A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a 472 bus in Woolwich Church Street, the BBC reports

I spend too much time thinking about The Handmaid’s Tale, these last few years. Never more so than now and not just America.

I have been illustrating insects which rely on nettles for food & shelter. This is just a tiny selection of those species. Having a nettle patch in the corner of your garden is wonderful habitat for a whole host of creatures! #wildlifehabitat #urbannature #wildgarden

Hedgehog at night in undergrowth of ivy, looking at the camera

Please say no to garden poisons such as pesticides and weedkillers, to help keep them out of the food chain. Hedgehogs, for example, can eat over 100 invertebrates every night.
#wildlife #gardening #nature

Excessive deregulation means that the UK is hurtling towards the next crash Deregulation creates opportunities for bankers to take reckless risks with other people’s money, collect bonuses and destabilise economies.

Private Equity has devoured

Bernard Matthews
Body Shop
Casual Dining
Cath Kidson
Comet
Debenhams
Flybe
Four Seasons Health Care
Maplin
Monarch Airlines
Paperchase
Poundworld
Southern Cross
Thames Water
Toys R Us

With further deregulation of finance, what next?
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