Telling the truth about the ecological emergency & those who profit from exploiting nature

really seems to upset some people!

Or if on the Today programme endlessly badgered by ill-informed questions about pointless & harmful expansion of North Sea oil & gas fields

Telling the truth about the ecological emergency & those who profit from exploiting nature

really seems to upset some people!

Climate crisis film to be shown in Swindon A free local screening of The National Emergency Briefing and discussion will take place at Christ Church on Monday 27 April.

“The National Emergency Briefing is a rapidly growing UK public information initiative, working to ensure that both Parliament and the wider public are clearly and honestly informed about the climate and nature crisis — and what an effective national response requires.”
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65 years of natural colonisation and natural woodland expansion at Monks Wood. Entirely self-sown by Jays, thrushes & wind; zero management: no planting, thinning or fencing. Oak-Ash canopy and Hawthorn-Blackthorn understorey dominate. Roe deer, Muntjac, Grey Squirrels haven't inhibited it.

Even livestock are now blocking roads to demand action on the climate and ecological emergencies as they realise we are reaching crisis point

Sorry, is that not the light-hearted comment you were after?

Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

Is habitat fragmentation good or bad for biodiversity?

This debate is stymied by studying snapshots of current landscape patterns

Our paper reminds us fragmentation is the breaking apart of habitat over time

Suggesting approaches to assess fragmentation as a process

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

“Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time” - Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

In a meeting recently I once again heard people extolling the benefits of mob stocking

A reminder that evidence for its benefits is extremely weak

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In a meeting recently I once again heard people extolling the benefits of mob stocking

A reminder that evidence for its benefits is extremely weak

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There are obviously special cases, but so many holidaymakers (& academics) fly frequently & with little thought about the consequences

Not a reason to destroy the climate though!

So maybe people don’t need to holiday in Brazil (family & essential work are different)

In all of this coverage about potential problems for holiday flights, there is no talk about going #FlightFree

Train, car, coach, etc

While the tax breaks for airlines make flying relatively cheap & some cannot afford more, many people could afford alternatives if only they made an effort

Many promote local people making decisions about conservation & use of rural green areas

But shouldn’t people in nearby conurbations also have a say?

Given that these urban people also use these green spaces

& English rural areas are often dominated by well-off people of a certain demographic

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves Communicating how a global warming of ‘just’ 1°C affects people is challenging. The hottest UK summer days have warmed more than 3 times faster than the rate of global warming in the past century, ca...

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves

Global warming of ‘just’ 1°C does not necessarily sound like a problem. But in the UK, the hottest summer days are warming much faster than typical summer days, changing our experience of heatwaves

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve been in a meeting with people arguing that nature recovery will only come about by humanity becoming more in tune with nature

Sounds ideal, but I question whether that is essential & indeed possible in the near term

& so whether a focus on straightforward conservation goals is more pragmatic

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

This!

While the mainstream media, including BBC News, are promoting the ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Ways in Which Donald Trump is Like Jesus Christ Except Better

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The BBC news is definitely now pandering to agenda of the right - attacking refugees 2 days running, spreading misinformation about renewables…

Why some argue cutting costs is the best way to cut carbon From heat pumps to offshore wind, the UK’s net zero push is facing growing scrutiny. Are rising costs undermining climate goals?

And as the BBC News carries on promoting a right wing agenda, now it attacks renewable energy

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I agree there is a need for us all to better appreciate the importance of nature

UK butterflies declining after 50 years of data Volunteers led by Dorset-based Butterfly Conservation have gathered more than 44m records.

More evidence that conservation is not working

I don’t mean conservation methods, which are often effective

I mean conservation as a socio-political endeavour

Vested interests, focussed on exploiting the natural world, outweigh the best efforts of conservationists
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Upton Heath saved by successful fundraising campaign | Dorset Wildlife Trust Dorset Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce that we have secured the purchase of a vital parcel of land at the heart of Upton Heath.

We did it! A missing piece of Upton Heath in Dorset has been saved from mineral extraction and secured as an important ecological corridor within the Upton Heath SSSI. Sand Lizards, Smooth Snakes, Dartford Warblers, invertebrates et al have a brighter future. Thanks to everyone who chipped in!

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Pathetic that the BBC is playing into the far right rhetoric of fake refugees

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Important- I’ve had so many people say to me that sand dredging at Lough Neagh is “not the problem”

Well guess what? It is a big environmental problem

Even the rich depend on nature much more than for recreation. It underpins our survival

Important- I’ve had so many people say to me that sand dredging at Lough Neagh is “not the problem”

Well guess what? It is a big environmental problem

Lough Neagh sand mining likely harming lake’s ecosystem, Queen’s research warns New research led by Queen’s University Belfast outlines how Lough Neagh, the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake, is under threat from commercial sand dredging.

The Earl of Shaftesbury uses profits from sand dredging contracts at Lough Neagh to renovate St Giles House in Wimborne St Giles.

But should private wealth come from damaging ecosystems? If maintaining an estate depends on harming nature, something is deeply wrong.
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

We all depend on nature