Wise words from RTE on simplifying permitting: resource authorities, share and use existing data sets, standardise EIA protocols, use a one stop shop developer cant interact with. We agree.

Also on what is NOT requested- tampering with existing legislation through omnibuses and the like.

Wind industry invested 45bn euro. Investing an irrelevant fraction in nature restoration would allow us to ensure desperately needed decarbonisation leaves us with more, rather then less biodiversity.

Striking figure from Commissioner Jorgensen: sînce the latest war Euopeans spend 500 milion more PER DAY on fossil fuels.
For my understanding, this is more than the annual budget of LIFE the EU's only environment fund and backbone of biodiversity conservation.

In Madrid with a delegation of @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social Partners for #WindEurope2026 to which we are official biodiversity partner.

Good to see increasing attention to nature from the sector. But will ongoing environmental deregulation mess it all up?

Will be posting ovet coming days.

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 is the biggest security risk for Europe. Time to treat it that way.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm old enough to remember the days when spring landscape outside the train windows was dominated by the red of poppies.

Now it's replaced by the sickly orange of glifosated fields.

#biodiversity #farming #pesticides

Great. So let's start by dropping proposals to gut the Water Framework and Nitrates Directives.

Clean water requires finally enforcing existing laws. Not ripping them up.

Beavers bring biodiversity to wetlands, study shows Beavers should be embraced as key allies in the fight against biodiversity loss according to scientists at the University of Stirling, after new research revealed the significant ecological benefits…

Beaver-created #wetlands had 19% more species than other types of wetland. Strengthening #biodiversity in areas where they can build dams.

Pitchfork politics and sausage-making: how the farmers ‘crisis’ rewrote EU green rules behind closed doors Legal experts call it undemocratic; the official watchdog calls it a failure of integrity. After a wave of farm protests rocked the continent, Brussels gutted its green protections at record speed, le...

"𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭." The origin story of deregulation 📣 🚜

🔎 New investigation by @natashafoote.bsky.social @euobserver.com shows how #FarmerProtests were hijacked to roll back rules that protect people and nature – all to favour big business. euobserver.com/208082/pitch...

Good story, unfortunately behind paywall pro.politico.eu/news/215786

More than 15 years ago we helped save Kenya's precious Dakatcha woodland from being cleared for an Italian biofuels plantation

Now ENI is being reported driving poverty & hunger in Kenya for "sustainable" aviation fuel. When will we learn?

@transportenvironment.org @birdlifeafrica.bsky.social

Keeping LIFE alive: the need for a standalone LIFE programme in the next MFF | Socialists and Democrats Keeping LIFE alive: the need for a standalone LIFE programme in the next MFF

We must keep #LIFE alive - good event by MEP @cesarluena.bsky.social et al from S+D Group @europarl.europa.eu on the need to continue (ramp-up?) dedicated #Nature funding in the next #EUBudget (also to implement the #RestoreNature Law I hope)! cc @mariannegros.bsky.social @arielbrunner.bsky.social

More subsidies, fewer rules and even more chasing of exports. This is a receipe for making all the current roblems worse.

You keep dodging the root problems:
-we produce and consume way too much livestock
-we keep concentrating animals in ever fewer regions and farms
-we produce in destructive ways

Rewilding linked to dramatic increases in birds across Scotland New research across Scotland's Northwoods Rewilding Network has revealed striking biodiversity gains on rewilded land, with bird diversity increasing by more than 260% and pollinating insects rising m...

Quite impressive impact of #RestoreNature in Scotland

Biodiversity loss can be reversed. If we choose to.

search.app/r7r1Q

EC issues "reasoned opinion" against Austria in case about conservation measures of #Natura2000. Essentially, it's about faking conservation.

Good.

Hope ECJ will now issue a strong ruling.

Enough paper parks.

EU climate advisers say eat less meat and tax farm emissions Brussels must take urgent measures to reduce the carbon footprint of food and farming, a scientific advisory board report says.

Europeans should eat less meat and farms must be taxed for their planet-warming pollution if the bloc is to reach its climate goals, the EU's scientific advisers argue.

Their far-reaching recommendations are unlikely to get a warm welcome from farmers.

Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...

Europe’s waterways are under threat as the mining lobby pushes for looser environmental protections.

New from me for @desmog.com 👇

www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...

Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...

🔴 NEW 🔴

Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby

Industry meetings w/ EU officials tripled ahead of release of EU Commission strategy doc pledging to 'review and revise' the Water Framework Directive

📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social w/ @euobserver.com

www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...

European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change calls for scrapping harmful CAP subsidies, a caron price in farming, and recycling the money back into helping farmers adapt and increase resilience.

No brainer, but don't expect any short term action. The farm lobby wants the disaster.

🙅 Tell your decision makers: #HandsOffNature!

Delaying the EU Deforestation Regulation = 50 million trees lost per year

Enforcing it = 17 million tonnes of CO₂ less + benefits for our health & nature.

When leaders won’t do the math, your action is essential.

👉 handsoffnature.eu#take-action

The results farm lobby "pro farmers" propaganda is a system where the vast majority of farmers get next to nothing, while a small well connected network of insiders gets most of the pie.

Keep the 2.4% pocketing 45% vs 50% getting 3.4% in mind next time you see the tractors rolling into Brussels

The CAP has now been pretty much handed over to national governments to use as they please

As a brave Bulgarian minister raises again the issue of widespread corruption, it's worth noting that in BG 2.4% of beneficiaries received 45% of direct payments, while nearly half of recipients get just 3.4%

EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

While the world burns, our politicians adopt an idiotic law that tries to make it burn faster.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

European justice is slow, but it still works.

Portugal fined 10 million euro plus running fine for not complying with 2019 judgement on failing to properly designate and protect #Natura2000 sites.

Important precedent. Hope PT gov will now do the decent thing and start complying.

The EP’s envi committee just voted to maintain a standalone LIFE asking for €6.4 billion

Well done

Now the EC should cissue an emended MFF proposal that preserves this crucial tool, both for adressing the biodiversity crisis and to enable local level constructive cooperation between stakehonders

So EU Commissioner Hansen is back drumming up #biofuels as a solution to expensive oil. An idea that failed 20 years ago.

Reminder:
- we dont have the land
-when fossil fuel goes up, against commodities follow
-further linking oil and food markets is going to starve the most vumerable.

This week, EU lawmakers will resume discussions on whether to censor how to talk about plant-based food... we’d rather they stop spreading confusion.

There’s #NoConfusion.
#YesVeggieBurger

BirdLife Malta condemns the Government’s decision to reopen new trapping licences BirdLife Malta strongly condemns the Government’s decision, announced through the Wild Birds Regulation Unit (WBRU), to reopen applications for new General Trapping Licences. This move represents a...

Beyond commenting really.

Maltese gov reauthorises finch trapping in defiance of the EU law and ECJ judgements.

@jessikaroswall.ec.europe.eu needs to take immediate action.

birdlifemalta.org/2026/03/bird...

The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers Green transition pioneers complain they are paying price for rewarding industry laggards

The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers

🙅 People across Europe are demanding a lead-free future.

7 in 10 European citizens support a strong EU ban. Yet the latest draft weakens the restriction by excluding bullets.

Lead puts human, wildlife and nature health at risk. Ignoring science and public demand is not leadership.

#BanLeadNow