Simon Penfold

Mining magnate Mark Thompson – who’s backing new Reform think tank ‘Resolute 1850’ – previously hosted Liz Truss at a tungsten mine he ran in south Devon

The mining company, Tungsten West, donated £4k to Truss’ leadership campaign 1/

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14.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 72    🔁 48    💬 6    📌 5

Latest rodenticide surveillance finds stubborn barn owl residues - Think Wildlife Rodenticide residues have been found in 88% of barn owls by the latest annual surveillance for the UK Rodenticide Stewardship Regime, operated by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use. The prev...

Voluntary stewardship has failed. There's stricter regulations, but poorly enforced. We now know that SGARs are contaminating everything: songbirds, hedgehogs, slugs, sparrowhawks, species unrelated to rodent food chain.
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20.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Wow! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 33 MILLION!!! 👏

LETS DO THIS!!

11.03.2025 16:20 — 👍 23359    🔁 5104    💬 388    📌 213

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. Labour’s forthcoming Community ...

Imagine if communities could own rivers, woods & peat bogs

Labour’s Community Right to Buy *could* let people do this with a simple change to the law

But rumours are circulating that this change is at risk of being dropped

Me for @powertochange.org.uk:

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11.03.2025 13:23 — 👍 112    🔁 39    💬 4    📌 2

So good to get some good news in the current world!

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Meanwhile, the Dartmoor Visitor Centre in Princetown is being forced to close because of a lack of funding, funding that the duchy could provide - without even missing it.

Read what the excellent @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has to say on such matters:

19.01.2025 09:27 — 👍 84    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1

Headline stating: I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - Ijust didn't expect them to be such losers by Rebecca Shaw

An early contender for headline of the year…

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Is the Gov. even aware that a "well managed grouse moor" involves the trapping of thousands of Stoats, in order that the maximum number of grouse can be blasted out of the sky on the Glorious 12th?
One rule for the shooting classes, no rules at all for wildlife.
Sign the petition now!
#ukwildlife

17.01.2025 14:03 — 👍 34    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0

Hey Bob, how you doing?

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