It’s that time of year again - tractors all over the land will take to flailing vital food sources in the form of berries along thousands of miles of hedgerows. PLEASE, if you are a landowner or know someone who is, wait until Feb/March & leave nature’s larder for #wildlife 🙏🍒

As many as 10,000 sites across England are contaminated with “forever chemicals”, an unpublished government report has found. Clean-up of these PFAS chemicals could cost a “staggering” £121 billion in a worst-case scenario. Story with Shosha Adie 👇 thetimes.com/uk/environment…

So Huw Edwards gets a suspended sentence for buying and making pornographic images of children, while peaceful environmental defenders seeking to prevent social catastrophe get 3, 4 and 5 years. Some justice, this.

Let’s settle this – is it jam or cream first on scones? Vote below…

🚨The Church of England is one of the largest landowners in Britain. 🌍That’s why we're calling on the The Church of England to show true environmental leadership and commit to rewild 30% of their land by 2030. Join us on the 6th October👉wildcard.land/rewild-the-chu…!

The courageous Gisèle Pélicot whose husband drugged her and invited men to rape her over a period of ten years, has taken the stand again to slap down claims by several accused that she knew what was going on. "Since I arrived at this court, I have felt humiliated...1/x

Because what everyone needs most right now is to watch the most corrupt politician in recent history having his tummy tickled by his number one fan in order to enrich him further by plugging his new book of lies.

Let’s do this!

Very sad news - Tony Soper, a huge influence on generations of birders and broadcasters, who I had the huge privilege of working with and getting to know, has died aged 95. The last person who was there at the start of the BBC Natural History Unit. A lovely man.

"Somalia has emitted roughly as much carbon dioxide from fossil fuels since the 1950s as the US economy does in an average three days" Yes, that does say three days bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Historic radio. Beautiful. Blistering. Perfect. Just so sad that it needs to be spelt out. James O'Brien

Instead of allowing the use of bee-killing pesticides, we would like to see @GovUK support farmers who are working towards transitioning away from the use of harmful chemicals. Ask British Sugar to help farmers sell neonic-free sugar. 👉 wtru.st/back-beet-farm…

I'm just baffled by so much mainstream political, strategic and economic thinking, which totally excludes the climate and ecological crisis, as if it's trivial. The reality is it is going to change everything. Change is coming, whether you like it or not. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

All garden shows and awards should be 100% pesticide free otherwise the entry should be disqualified. Share if you agree.

Great farmer group here today. The problem now for nature restoration on farmland is NOT lack of farmer interest - but an abject failure of the government (and the last one) to offer the transition and investment that was promised

There once was a man from Pretoria Who lived in a state of dysphoria His mood was so bitter When he bought poor old Twitter That his rants became phantasmagoria

Interesting series you may like if you haven’t already listened to it ⁦Peter Powell⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tre…

Pull your finger out The Labour Party. You were voted into power to tackle important issues like this.

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve Excellent interview with ⁦Tony Juniper⁩ & great to see his calls for reform of National Parks to help restore nature: theguardian.com/environment/20…