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Our four panellists (L-R - Joe Wilkins, James Hitchcock, Edna Wachira, and Ruth Chambers) standing in front of a WEL pop up banner. Joe is holding his hands behind his back. James is holding a yellow board with a dark yellow rectangle patterned background, which says 'for people, for climate, for nature' and includes the Act Now Change Forever logo. Edna is holding a white Wales Environment Link board which says 'I support ambitious nature targets / Rwy'n cefnogi targedau natur uchelgeisiol', and includes a blue, green, and red footer designed to look like a chart tracking nature recovering over the next 25 years. Ruth holds a board with a white and baby pink rectangle patterned background, which says 'Cymru Iachach, Tecach, Mwy Diogel'. There ae various items on the floor in the background, including other posters and an amplifier.

We're logging on to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our panel discussion at the Climate Cymru Act Now Change Forever mass lobby 🐝

We also wanted to say a big thank you to the staff at @climatecymru.bsky.social, Bethan Sayed and Stanley Townsend for organising a brilliant day.

Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. The non dom exodus, the collapse of private schools, which other over hyped story from the last 12 months will turn out to be nonsense?

Great to see this piece gaining traction. A strong Bill is crucial for us to deliver nature's recovery in Wales - and to re-establish the rights and governance we lost after leaving the EU in 2021.

We need a strong Environment Bill for a #NaturePositive Wales 🐝🐬🌱

IMPORTANT:

The more Israeli crimes are exposed, the more emboldened Israel becomes in committing even more.
If you’re following the news & the lists of victims’ names, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Lately, every single day, Israel is killing over a hundred people—some of them entire families.

Came on here to complain about the ITV coverage of the women’s football simply not mentioning Wales’ game on Saturday but describing England’s game as ‘the big one’ but there’s actually real problems in this country 🙃

A clear stream winds through lush, green woodland, flanked by mossy tree trunks and overhanging branches. The kind of precious habitat that could be lost without strong environmental protections.

This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.

Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.

If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️

😳 As more than 100 backbench Labour MPs prepare to rebel against the Government's cruel welfare cuts, Kemi Badenoch has offered Tory votes to push through the cuts.

Labour and Conservatives teaming up to punish vulnerable people. Who'd have thought it... 🤷

If you joined a pride event on the weekend, now is the time to do the work and respond to this consultation ⚧️🏳️‍⚧️✍️

“New Velindre mitigations and sustainable design features [are] no more than a sticking plaster slapped over a corpse, a particularly blatant form of greenwashing, with a high, net environmental cost.”

Save the Northern Meadows still never miss 🎯

“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan.

“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”

Quote graphic with text reading: "The Home Office has lost the trust of all major stakeholders and must be radically reformed if it is to have a hope of rebuilding confidence". Then block text saying "No way home? It is time to remove management of immigration from the home Office" with text below reading "A report by Zoe Gardner, commissioned by Carla Denyer MP."

Whether for love, work or to flee danger - people move. Always have and always will. It's the govt's job to make it work - but instead the failing Home Office wastes taxpayer money treating migrants like criminals. Time for something new - my report with
‪@zoejardiniere.bsky.social‬ out today.

Wales is told to celebrate the pitiful £450 million for new rail, when a single road in England is getting £590m… and we were originally asking for the £4 billion owed by HS2.

Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.

Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

Totally utterly completely indefensible

No farmers, no food.

It's been an incredible opportunity to work on this Bill for WEL with colleagues across the ENGOs and the Welsh Government. Although there are gaps, these can be closed with ambition and determination.

It's crucial the Bill is strengthened to ensure it delivers real change for nature.

All you need to know about our broken economic system, is that more people are in the market for private jets.

And more people than ever blame immigrants for the fact that they can’t afford a house. ☹️

We only just crossed 1.5C warming. This means a rate that is rapidly approaching 1C per decade. That means we're only 20 years away, at most, from a 3C+ world.

Arriving half a century sooner than was projected, half a dozen years ago. And still heating...

Imagine if Cardiff worked for people who live here instead of the visitors - got off the train and shepherded out the back of the station to a cab rank around the front where I’m immediately in a cab (great) then stuck in traffic and the driver says £25 😭

'Global red alert': Fires responsible for half of global forest loss in 2024 Record breaking levels of forest loss recorded globally in 2024, with wildfires leading to 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions

Devastating new figures on global forest loss increasing sharply again last year, in large part due to fires. The failure to reckon with the risk of feedback loops is probably the single biggest flaw in the debate around climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413897...

Kind of amazing how nakedly dishonest are Wes Streeting's lot when it comes to suppressing data on young people taking their own lives in consequence of the withdrawal of gender affirming care. 🤯🧵

It's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - and just 3 days ago it was revealed that the UK is now one of the more difficult places in Europe to live as an LGBTQIA+ person. A sobering reminder that our rights can never be taken for granted. #IDAHOBIT2025

Arguing on Bluesky like it’s twitter in 2017. A beautiful Sunday morning ✨🌞

You want me to stick to an argument after derailing it. Classic. I’m gonna go get on my bike and cycle to town now, because I live in a community with the infrastructure to do so. I’ll enjoy the sound of birds in the trees and the river while I’m at it. All things new build estates don’t have xo

It’s great you’re happy driving to the park, doctors, shops, schools, work etc etc. It’s not sustainable or good for your or others health. Ultimately building communities must include community infrastructure (I’d read feminist cities if I was you) because nice neighbours isn’t all community means

Yes but if you’re building on green belt (I.e the last bits of habitat not being worked on for agriculture) - when the Govt is shelving effective sustainable farm payments - then you’re actively making the problem worse. We’re not gonna hit 30x30 because of stuff like this.

The country you’re leaving for your children:

Have you been to a new build development? They dont tend to include the things that build community (what i mentioned above). Unfortunately we also live in one of the most nature depleted countries in the world so we can’t just plonk housing wherever we like. It needs to consider nature

Lots of National Wales staff (including myself) were approached by Pakistani bloggers last year who had captured the expired website domain name.

They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.

Literally read the state of nature report? Look at your windscreen? You’re old enough to have noticed the decline in bug spatters. The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. Stop embarrassing yourself