NatureScot spent over £72,000 in the first three months of 2026 alone managing the Guga hunt.

Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this.

At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government.

Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.

Please sign the Govt petition to end bird netting: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

What birds have you heard or seen from your bedroom window and have they lifted your spirits? #chronicillness #birdingfrombed

🙌 We have a BIG opportunity to restore local nature on a landscape scale.

We are partnering with the Big Give's Earth Raise match-fund campaign. If we can raise £50,000 between 22-29 April, it will be doubled to £100,000, thanks to a few generous private donors.

👉 Double your gift: buff.ly/WwGkItK

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds Chemicals known to affect brains of common garden birds, and to kill unborn chicks, found in most feather samples Conservationists have called for restrictions on pet flea treatments after research found songbird feathers widely contaminated with substances that can damage the birds’ brains and kill unborn chicks. Almost every feather sample tested from five common species of UK garden birds contained either permethrin, imidacloprid or fipronil – all insecticides that are banned for agricultural use but still common in pet tick and flea treatments. Continue reading...

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds

Sign Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday Card Sir David Attenborough is turning 100 🎉 He’s inspired generations to love and protect our planet. Now let’s thank him together. Sign his 100th birthday card here to show your appreciation:

Now it’s our chance to say thank you and celebrate a true national treasure’s birthday. Add your name to Sir David Attenborough’s 100th giant birthday card today: 38d.gs/DavidAttenbo...

Did u know? "Weeds" - wildflowers deserve a break.Rather than persecute them, we should celebrate them for the life they bring into our outside spaces. Like this Spotted Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum) It arrived in my garden for free (whoop!) & my Hairy-Footed Flower Bees totally adore them. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝🪲

A picture of a wide watery marsh, with the logos of Somerset Wildlands and Earth Raise on it.

Want to help rewild the Somerset Levels? OF COURSE YOU DO.

Tomorrow is the start of the Big Give's Earthraise week - where you get the chance to DOUBLE YOUR DONATION when you donate to Somerset Wildlands. Help us make space for nature and people in one of England's most important landscapes.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

"The company's ethos is entirely unsuited to working on UK government projects".
How much more evidence does Starmer need before acting to remove Palantir from their dangerous stranglehold on government contracts?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Who says Farage earns that much? He might receive it, but nobody could possibly earn it.

We seriously need a proportional representation electoral system instead of first past the post

England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’ Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023

Natural England failing to protect valuable sites. Our report for @wildjustice.bsky.social shows that nearly 2/3 of sites waiting to be designated as SSSIs were under threat from development. One site in Thurrock will be directly destroyed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Compare:

• MPs’ Menu in Parliament: “Spanish roasted red pepper and potato tortilla with cannellini bean and courgette stew and garlic aiol” — Cost: £3.80 (subsidised by you)

• Meanwhile: 27% of NHS trusts have food banks for NHS staff onsite

MPs subsidised, Nurses go hungry

Disabled parrot is undefeated alpha male of his group thanks to novel 'beak jousting' A study reported in Current Biology shows how physical disabilities in the animal world can be overcome through behavioral innovation. The report features an endangered kea parrot in captivity at New ...

Wonderful tale of animal innovation, and food for thought: "if a disabled animal can innovate its way to success, well-intentioned interventions like prosthetics might not always improve their quality of life."

So much to #Unlearn about non-human animals

phys.org/news/2026-04...

YOU can break the machine...
It's easy!
Just #VoteGreen

The Anthropocene. 36% of all mammals today are humans. 60% are livestock. 4% are wild. 70 % of birds are poultry. 30% are wild.

Our dietary choices have crowded them out.

Spring has never been this quiet.

In Europe, we lost 19% of our birds in 40 years, 60% for farmland birds.

Yet EU laws protecting wildlife, clean air and water are being weakened.

We can’t trade health and nature for profit of a few. Sign now: www.birdlife.org/news/2026/02...

#HandsOffNature

EU: ban male chick culling! Each year, the industrial egg industry hands down a death sentence to more than 330 million day-old chicks, simply because they are male.Some are gassed to death. Others are fed into industrial grinde

EU: ban male chick culling! action.eko.org/a/eu-ban-mal...

Petition: Ban greyhound racing Greyhound racing kills and injures dogs. From 2017–2023, 1,230 dogs died trackside, many more were destroyed, and there were over 31,000 injuries. We believe it’s time to follow Wales and ban this cru...

petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Tony Blair’s influence has been continuing to shape government thinking, from enthusiasm for so-called artificial intelligence to key appointments.

The government must be transparent about who is shaping decisions and whose interests are being served.

#Transparency #Politics

Comparing NHS Internationally In 5 Charts | The King's Fund Saoirse Mallorie pulls out just five measures to illustrate the mixed bag of findings from our new report, which analyses how the NHS compares to the health care systems of other countries.

The NHS can improve, we have nothing to gain from US system, we should reject US interference in the UK.

www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

The AI boom comes at a cost 😮‍💨⁣⁣
⁣Behind the AI hype is a surge in energy use, data centre expansion and growing threats to democracy.⁣ Can it still be called progress if it deepens environmental harm, surveillance, and the grip of Big Tech and autocrats on power?⁣
empli.fi/greenpeace/?...

Thames Water infrastructure average age is 79 yrs. 40% of assets are 100+ yrs old.

Water industry average is 56 years.

At current rate, it will take 700+ yrs to renew assets.

Since 1989 industry neglected investment, £88bn+ dividends paid, customers fleeced.

Privatisation isn't the answer.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Feeling a bit sorry for myself, missing out on getting pictures of the garden coming to life, as my very slow recovery continues.

So I'm indulging in a repost of one of my favourite 📷 of the last 6mths (not that there have been many).

I'll get over it, & maybe go sit in the sun for a bit today. ☀️

Make Your Garden Bat Friendly On a late summer’s evening there’s nothing quite as entertaining as settling down in a comfy garden chair to watch the bats come out to swish and swoop on their hunt for food. They’re fascinating…

🦇 There’s nothing quite as entertaining as settling down in a comfy garden chair to watch the bats come out to swish and swoop on their hunt for food.

They’re fascinating creatures, but they need our help.

Here’s how you can do your bit 👇

Absolutely! In any other walk of life it would be called out for what it is; bribery.

Yorkshire Dales red squirrel reserve for sale after owners' deaths The colony lives in woodland which is managed to protect the rare red squirrels.

Anyone got half a million quid they can chuck our way?...

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