“Witness – if, as an outsider, I may be so bold – the Cambridgeshire County Council councillors who have apparently decided to destroy hundreds of living #trees, along with the creatures for whom they are home, in order to build a bus route for electric and hybrid buses. The only value recognised

On my watering tour around Coton, I reach the orchard's edge, where order fades to wild. Blue tits, jays, sparrows flutter above, deer graze below. In the soft evening light, fruits glisten like jewels. Those who'd pour concrete here have hearts of stone #SaveCotonOrchard 🍎🐝

How many rare, Red List, Priority, and Nationally Scarce species does one site need to have for Cambridgeshire County Council to recognise its value and not throw it under a concrete busway to Grange Road❓ Asking for the planet 🌳🦉🦇🐝🦋🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard

Rare moth found in Cambridgeshire orchard threatened by busway plan dlvr.it/TC7Dzz

We'll be at the allotment stall (proceeds to Coton Busway Action Group 🍃💚🍃 fighting fund) at this year's fête—come by if you can❗️🙃👇🏻 #SaveCotonOrchard

More obfuscation and greenwashing by the GCP, this time in statements made to BBC East cc Private Eye Magazine

Small campaign groups will know how crucial support offered for free from conservation Trusts, other experts & local groups like these are when fighting well-funded developers (and councils). A big thank you to all the Bens & Loises! #BeMoreBen❗️🦋

The weekly digest is out now! Read now to catch up on everything that happened in the world of British nature conservation this week. 🌳 inkcapjournal.co.uk/gene-conservat…

What a fantastic day at the Coton Village Fête❗️Huge thanks to the organisers and everyone who visited the Coton Busway Action Group 🍃💚🍃 flower stall 🌻🐝 All proceeds go to the fighting fund to help #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌ youtu.be/_VfPCtU05LM?si…

With Cambridgeshire County Council admitting ‘serious historic failings’ & planning to plead guilty to HSE prosecutions, will leaders finally reconsider sinking £100s of millions of public funds into two new environmentally & economically costly busway❓ Time to explore Cambridge Past, Present & Future alternatives❓

A £50 million P&R in Oxfordshire, now unusable due to funding shortfalls, is costing the county in maintenance with no benefit. This fiasco is a warning to Cambridgeshire County Council: the bonkers busways could lead to the same waste—unfinished, costly, and ineffective 🌳🚌❌ Better Ways 4 Busways

"Every tree planted or saved, every species protected, enriches our communities,” says Cllr Brian Milnes in South Cambs Mag. Yet, this same councillor drives the felling of hundreds of trees in a century-old orchard. Such hypocrisy—a betrayal of Nature’s soul 🌳 #SaveCotonOrchard

Melissa Jordan Bat Conservation Trust Bonkers Busway Cambs Wendy Blythe Naomi Bennett 11 bat species live along the C2C route, 8 found in Coton Orchard, including rare Nathusius’ pipistrelle & Barbastelle. Despite Cllr McDonald’s claims, Cambridgeshire County Council’s own EIA shows records. A busway will destroy habitats, food sources, & add light pollution. The bats won't survive 🦇

Peter Oborne Apples, 'unnatural' and 'unbritish,' if Cllr Shailer is to be believed. So cleave Cambridgeshire’s largest orchard in two, fell hundreds of trees—decades in the making. No matter the life they cradle, what will mark Eden lost❓ A road to nowhere. 🍎 #SaveCotonOrchard

Worth saving ain’t it