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Dr Brian Jones

@badgeristbj.bsky.social

Retired Immunologist. Member of Scientists for XR. Disgusted by hunting and badger culling.

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A project to revive Gaza's farmland is bearing fruit against the odds Despite Israel's destruction, Gaza's land fights steadfastly to feed its people – but the occupation is choking farmland recovery, warns the project organiser.

A project to revive Gaza's farmland is bearing fruit against the odds
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20.11.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want to give the Home Office ideas, but should we be expecting them to take a prompt from Trumpica and start bombing small boats crossing the Channel?

19.11.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Indigenous youth are rising: Across tropical forests, a new generation speaks with a unified voice - Greenpeace International Deep within the forest of Sira Village, West Papua, nearly 100 young Indigenous Leaders gathered for a Forest Defenders Camp.

"Solving humanity’s crisis with the Earth requires us to change how we live, what we value, and who we listen to. In all these senses, Indigenous communities have a great deal to teach the rest of us." www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

09.11.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Help me end hunting with dogs Hunting with dogs was supposed to be banned 20 years ago, but in reality it never stopped. Hunts have continued to chase and kill wild animals as if the law never changed.

The #TimeForChange is now! Please join me in pledging to take part in the government consultation to #EndHunting @LeagueACS
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08.11.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Say NO to Drax's AI Data Centre Stop Burning Trees just handed in a petition to David Skaith, Charlie Jeffery and Liz Kendall MP calling on them to reject and cut ties with the proposed Drax-powered AI Data Centre. Both the North Yo...

I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter to Drax's partners and the DSIT calling on them to reject and cut ties with Drax's AI Data Centre. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...

07.11.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Intensive livestock farms fail to declare climate impacts in β€˜emissions scandal’ Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data

Plans for intensive livestock β€œmegafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

06.11.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The countryside - home of what remains of Nature (there's also a lot of it in cities) but also the cruelest of animal exploitation, shooting, fishing, culling, hunting and intensive factory farming.

05.11.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Respect the Amazon - Greenpeace International Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon and protect its forests, wildlife and its people.

⚠️ The Amazon's powerful ability to regulate climate is under threat ⚠️

Illegal mining and industrial-scale agriculture are cutting and burning down vast areas of forests for a quick profit.

Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon act.gp/4c12sje

04.11.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Heroes in Prison’ - Activists imprison Westminster statues as 'terrorists' to highlight crackdown on protest - Greenpeace UK This morning a team of Greenpeace activists installed prison bars around three iconic statues in Parliament Square to highlight the government’s apparent desire to cast protesters as criminals and ter...

www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/heroes-...

29.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The DAMMING Evidence that PROVES Keir Starmer LIED about Gaza | Matt Kennard | Double Down News Get more from Double Down News on Patreon

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27.10.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Say NO to Trump’s trade deal EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today.

EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...

22.10.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Rachel Reeves: Tax extreme wealth! Rachel Reeves has said that taxing the very rich will be "part of the story" in her autumn budget. We need to urgently make it clear to her that this budget needs to include higher taxes on extreme we...

Rachel Reeves has said that taxing the very rich will be "part of the story" in her autumn budget. We need to urgently make it clear to her that this budget needs to include higher taxes on extreme wealth. I just signed this letter, can you sign it too? act.350.org/s/2980329.ed...

18.10.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Too much stress on vaccinating badgers. Several MPs speaking for the motion nevertheless misspoke. If only scientists could be allowed to present the actual evidence.

14.10.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Best-selling author Max Porter reads his powerful piece β€œWild West” on the British arms trade.
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29.09.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My son had broken collarbone and fractured hip from similar accident

27.09.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every year hundreds of thousands of familiar songbirds – blackcaps, robins and warblers – are illegally trapped and slaughtered in Cyprus using glue-coated limesticks, mist-nets and electronic callers to supply a secret market for β€œambelopoulia.”

Learn more: www.operationdeadair.org

23.09.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

Sumud flotilla attacked nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

24.09.2025 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transition on Our Terms - Platform What Oil and Gas Workers are Demanding from Governments and Industry

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19.09.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just Transition (2nd edition) - The Global Climate and Health Alliance Landmark report provides first comprehensive global overview of the health consequences associated with fossil fuel use at every stage of their lifecycle, from extraction to waste, and across the huma...

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17.09.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do not underestimate the role Big Oil played in much of humanity losing their minds fossil fuels did not just overheat the planet, they destabilised democracies, rewired culture, & poisoned collective thought. dismantling big oil is not just a climate fight, it is a fight for sanity

Do not underestimate the role Big Oil played in much of humanity losing their minds
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17.09.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protect the Global Sumud Flotilla! The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food and medicine. Israel has threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield. Add your name to help watch over the flotill...

The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food and medicine. Israel has threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield. Add your name to help watch over the flotilla and demand its safe passage! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...

14.09.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why does the US support Israel's crimes? Why does the US support Israel’s genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of overwhelming international condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing ...

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30.08.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From climate emergency to national renewal Sir Keir Starmer has presided over a government that so far has failed to address the climate emergency and social inequality. This is the last chance for course correction.

"From climate emergency to national renewal" in The Ecologist
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26.08.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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England’s bovine TB control The world watches and wonders…….. The interest and outrage generated by the English badger culls over the last thirteen years is huge and continues to grow. But as time has gone on, the…

Defra under international scrutiny - doesn't look good thebadgercrowd.org/englands-bov...

21.08.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Holocaust Survivor DEMOLISHES Israel’s Final Solution | Double Down News Get more from Double Down News on Patreon

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21.08.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Arrest Me
YouTube video by The Konexions Arrest Me

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08.08.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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31.07.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am furious so I'm taking on a 24 hour challenge I might regret this... But it’s for a good cause

On Monday 1st September, the very same day Parliament returns from recess, I’ll run as many 5km laps around Parliament as possible within 24 hours.

24.07.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders World leaders must take β€œimmediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

04.07.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Billionaires and their companies are intimidating activists. Oil pipeline company Energy Transfer sued Greenpeace orgs and got a jury verdict for $660m - but the fight ain't over. Watch Greenpeace International’s Executive Director @madsflarup.bsky.social ’s message: bsky.app/profile/gree...

03.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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