We deserve better: let's get it done on 7 May www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-deserve...

Time and time again we hear govt ministers condemn Israel's flagrant breaches of international law but take no real action. This is simply not enough.

Ban settlement trade, stop all arms sales to and military cooperation with Israel, and pursue investigations into war crimes.

For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters Letters: Responding to an article by the PM, Caroline Lucas says he must be clearer about climate risks, Molly Scott Cato says we must reverse Brexit and Dr Victor Ajuwon applauds Labour’s directness....

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“Greens who were long dismissed as “idealistic” & “unrealistic” now look like hard-headed pragmatists & true patriots. They’re years ahead of their rivals in demanding a transition that makes sense on every level: environmental, economic & political” - great article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇

East Anglia under siege: the battle to save our countryside Campaigners warn East Anglia faces industrialisation as pylons, solar farms and mega-projects threaten farmland and historic landscapes

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Thank you Hungary.

My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long and elegant curving neck, and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend!

A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago!

Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it Britain’s swift population fell by two-thirds between 1995 and 2023. Make their lives a little easier with a bit more food and more places to nest

Quck - help Swifts swiftly www.theguardian.com/environment/...

He doesn't get it. He's a zealot for dirty, dangerous nuclear power and throws scores of billions of our money at it. And calls it green.

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

@channel4news.bsky.social aw @cathynewman.bsky.social leaving! You've been brilliant Cathy. Thanks for standing up for everything that's right. Best wishes for the future.

Stop tainted timber destroying forests, homes and wildlife Take action Our investigation has uncovered a disturbing truth: “sustainable” timber from Malaysia can’t be trusted. Certification schemes are failing, so timber linked to forest destruction, wildlife...

“Sustainable” timber isn’t always safe. Forests are being destroyed, Indigenous communities displaced and critically endangered species like the Malayan tiger are under threat. Demand the UK government takes action @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

MARCH 2026 UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with total of 4960 landholdings (76.9% rural Scotland). All records updated plus 18 new ones. New subscriptions welcome - they start at £6. www.whoownsscotland.org.uk

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fantastic news, thank you! It's enforcement that will be the problem....

A table showing the proposed changes to 9 species of birds as part of Schedule 2.1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The Woodcock's shooting season is proposed to be shortened in England, Scotland and Wales.

Great news for Woodcock! After our campaigning, the shooting season for Woodcock is proposed to be shortened!

On Monday we heard the news that the government are proposing changes to Schedule 2.1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, affecting 9 species of birds...
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@wildjustice.bsky.social

Rabid mentality of farmers hanging up dead corvids in fields, and in breeding season - when will it ever stop? #Peasenhall @eastangliabylines.co.uk @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @adrianramsay.bsky.social

My Mum died two years ago today.

Here is a blog about the inefficiency of the Department for Work and Pensions: markavery.info/2026/03/25/a...

#DWP #pension #mcFadden #leebarronMP #corby

Pledge your support to help a community group buy some common greenspace: Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall Commons are areas of protected greenspace...

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Palantir is burrowing into the heart of the UK's institutions - our health, our defence, our finances.

Join me in telling the govt to send this dangerous company packing:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

“Trump is a bully and a blackmailer, and he has made absolutely no plan for what an exit strategy looks like. When he asks for our help we should say: Donald, ‘you broke it, you fix it.’”

Caroline Lucas speaking on the Iran war on #BBCQT.

"It's a question of where’s that money's going? And you've handed over our private patient data to Palantir, a company with far-right connections. If that money was instead going into the front line, we might all have a better chance of having a better NHS"

Caroline Lucas on the NHS on #BBCQT

“This isn’t just about my livelihood – it’s about justice for the lough before there’s nothing left for the next generation.”

The slow murder of Lough Neagh—the largest lake on the island of Ireland & across the British Isles—is a tragedy and a travesty.

Go go Declan Conlon.

Revealing who owns England just became government policy This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Yesterday, in their ambitious new Land Use Framework for England, the Government announced that they would be opening up the Land Registry. I’ve been campaigning for …

Revealing who owns England just became Government policy.

Here's my blog post analysing this historic moment, as well as assessing some of the other ambitious policies unveiled in the Government's new Land Use Framework:

whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/r...

In case there was any doubt that Reform loathe nature & rewilding, here’s Richard Tice opposing the new land use framework and saying:

“We should be maximising food production, not subsidising productive land to sit idle.”

Reform would be a disaster for nature. They need to be utterly defeated.

My full quote to the Times on why it’s bananas to let landowners release 50m pheasants into the British countryside without proper regulations, given their ecological impacts and role as a vector for bird flu:

Two people walking on the bank of a river, with dogs

Pollution in England’s rivers has prompted volunteers to start testing waterways themselves.
Now a new tool will allow anyone to report what they see in rivers, lakes and beaches.

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