Nail on head Charles. Well said sir. 👏👏👏 Aș a reminder, and according to the chair of the Environment Agency, 40% of all river pollution is actually caused by farming. 36% the water industry.

This is one hell of a map: exceptional work by watershed_investigations. It's an interactive "Watershed Pollution Map" which layers multiple data-sets to show range of threats, poisons & pressures on/in Britain's water-bodies. Find your local river, lake, coast here: watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-out-…

We are delighted to announce that Tim Birch and Sally Weale have joined the Board of Tir Natur. Tim is Senior Policy & Advocacy Manager for Wildlife Trusts Wales and Sally is a documentary producer with a PhD in Zoology. Croeso i chi ddau!

It's way past time there was a bottom trawling ban in Wales if we want to protect and restore our seas in a #ClimateEmergency and #naturecrisis #banbottomtrawling Huw Irranca-Davies Delyth Jewell AS / MS Carolyn Thomas MS / AS Marine Conservation Society Iolo Williams Greenpeace UK Tir Natur Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales

I've been waiting months to say this, but: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! Please help CumbriaWildlifeTrust with this most brilliant endeavour! wildlifetrusts.org/news/cumbria-w… The Wildlife Trusts

A brilliant and ambitious project. Please do share and support.

So the ‘woke’-bashing ⁦Mail+⁩ lays into ⁦National Trust⁩ again. For doing a bit more to tackle climate change. To be clear we are not banning meat or anything like it, just having a look at making some sensible reductions. RT or like if you stand with us.

the idea of 9,000 millionaires leaving Britain sounds dramatic until you remember there are 2,849,000 millionaires in this country it’s literally a rounding error given the ebb and flow of migration

Creative writing event rescheduled for this Sunday 15th (weather dependent) from 10-5pm ✍️ 📍Pentwyn Farm If you would like to attend please contact: [email protected] #writinginnature #Creativewriting #wildlife

DEFRA is such an important department, dealing with river pollution, farming support, the biodiversity crisis and more. Why aren't we giving it the time it deserves?

"When national parks were set up, the destruction of nature by intensive farming was not anticipated and, 75 years on, they do not have the goal, governance or funding to reverse this – deep reform is needed." theguardian.com/environment/20…

“UK to appoint nature envoy for first time” This is great news - and it means that the UK really needs to act to protect more land for nature pronto, to have credibility in international nature negotiations! ⁦David Lammy⁩ ⁦Steve Reed MP⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Exciting news for people near Bath, we’re starting a new community woodland! Contribute to this crowdfunder, because if we can raise enough money to buy this 70 acres of disused farmland we can do our most amazing project yet! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/reforestatio…

Remember, water companies, politicians, all you have to do to get that pesky Mr Sharkey off your back is address the whole London-about-to-run-out-of-water thing without utterly destroying every chalk stream in the process - this might be a good place to start.

"..as devastating floods hit central Europe and as the Met Office predicts floods in the UK this autumn, here is yet another pressing task for an overworked government. " A brilliant investigative piece. I agree; IDB's are beyond reform. Time for change. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I'm calling on the Government to take immediate action to reverse butterfly declines. Sign the petition: butterfly-conservation.org/emergency

"Tax the oil and gas giants." Green MP Ellie Chowns tells Jackie Long she welcomed David Lammy's climate action speech, but the government should raise finance to tackle the crisis by implementing the polluter pays principle. Read and watch here: channel4.com/news/climate-c…

Good news 📢 Well done Welsh Government Climate Change and very pleasing to see cross border cooperation. I look forward to announcements on measures to help accelerate action on agricultural pollution (the biggest contributor in Wales) to really help shift the dial. 🙏👏👏

YES! We want clear and honest labelling. This is part of our Manifesto for the Wye: wyemanifesto.org

Quite!