January we wassailed the orchard. February we added to it. Planting new fruit trees for Tu B’Shevat with On the Verge Cambridge, Coton Loves Pollinators and members of the Jewish community in Cambridge 🍎🍻🌳🌱🪏🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard #EverGreen

Scrub gets written off far too easily.
A walk through Coton’s scrub today, it was alive with fieldfares, redwings, starlings and house sparrows, all feasting on winter berries. Proof that these scruffy edges quietly keep a lot of our declining birds going. #SaveCotonOrchard

Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way

To mark National Tree Week & the close of the Inquiry, the Coton Tree of Hope was planted by Sir Partha Dasgupta, economist & President of Wildlife Trust BCN, a leading voice on the value of nature & supporter of the campaign to #saveCotonOrchard. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told Planned route linking Cambourne to Cambridge will go through one of county’s last traditional orchards

I am opposed to the busway going through Coton orchard. #cambridge #cotonorchard #busway #savecotonorchard www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dusk to Dawn, Moths. Volunteers data gathering to help #SaveCotonOrchard

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 £𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 🔐 C2C Inquiry Coton villagers take the stand 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 🔗 www.facebook.com/share/p/17B9...

The #CotonOrchard Inquiry is underway 🌳 We’re making the case for a greener route for the Cambourne–Cambridge Busway — protecting wildlife & countryside. Follow the inquiry & support the campaign 💚
🔗 cambridgeppf.org/coton-orchard-busway-inquiry-underway/

#SaveCotonOrchard

Report by @itvnews.bsky.social on the public inquiry into the £200m Cambourne to Cambridge (terminating in Grange Rd) busway 🌳🚌 ❌ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

BBC News reporting on Cambourne to Cambridge Busway Public Inquiry #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

While plotting a new wildflower meadow in Coton Orchard today, OTV Ben found a Rosy Knot-horn moth (Oncocera semirubella). Nationally Scarce B and of conservation concern. Luckily its larval food plants – bird’s-foot trefoil & clover – are thriving here 🔍🐝 Reason 263 to #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌

No, only reluctantly on X to help #SaveCotonOrchard, preferring mostly to be out under the real
blue sky 🐝

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭.𝟲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: Today we joined Rob, whose family has farmed on Madingley Hill for generations, to see the most objected to stretch of the GCP Cambourne to Cambridge busway 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 📺 youtu.be/FzSYWo6QlYM?...

A lovely morning in Coton Orchard with CLO for our @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount 2025 ⏱️ Sunshine, showers… 133 butterflies across 12 species. Gatekeepers the clear winner. We started with a moth trap with Camb Moth Group, finds still being identified 🔍🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

You can’t offset the roots of a century. You can’t recreate the hum of a traditional orchard. No metric of ‘net gain’ makes this expendable. Surely this is something worth saving❓ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

Halcyon days with @bluebarrelcider.bsky.social #SaveCotonOrchard #Cider 🍎

Alfie helps his dad water the trees and watch over his friends in this County Wildlife Site. Cap in muzzle, he’s asking you to help him stop Cambs County Council from throwing their home under a busway. Paws in for #TeamAlfie 🐾 @weratedogs.com Help #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

A red kite scrap, a dead mic, and not a turtle dove in sight – but a cracking glimpse into Coton’s mosaic habitat. Backed by experts, but still far too much resting on the shoulders of a few fighting to #SaveCotonOrchard and protect nature in Cambridgeshire youtu.be/GfzXSes0bf4?...

Mini moth trap at Coton Orchard for their second BioBlitz weekend – a lovely finale to #CambridgeNatureFestival 2025
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Joined @CotonBuzz in Ben’s Meadow at Coton Orchard today, releasing eight Painted Ladies raised as part of #CambridgeNatureFestival activities. Set free among 320+ butterflies already dancing across the grasses and thistles. A privilege to witness. #SaveCotonOrchard @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social

Cambs CC didn’t listen—not to Wildlife Trusts, PTES, 12 NGOs, experts, Lords, Chris Packham, Sir David or 23,000+ petitioners. Today, we hope the inspectors will listen. Battle lines are drawn for Sept’s Public Inquiry.
Pls sign & share. Help #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌ ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

Thanks to everyone who came to today’s record-breaking Bioblitz at Coton Orchard with @cotonbuzz & @onthevergecambs. Grateful to the expert recorders who shared time and knowledge. Part of @CambridgePPF #CambridgeNatureFestival – so much still to discover, and protect 🔍🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

Glorious day with @ontheverge_cambridge & @cotonbuzz adding plants to the Black Polar Pebble Pond in Coton Orchard. Amazing how much #wildlife has already found it! 💧🐝

#savecotonorchard

The Bonkers Busway Cambs news Facebook page has somehow been silenced but thankfully the @CambridgeIndy is giving locals a voice. To help #SaveCotonOrchard, more info, sign petition or link to donate to @CambridgePPF #FightingFund see @CotonBusway cotonbuswayaction.com

Coton Orchard – over 100 years old – featured on @BBCLookEast last night. With 90% of traditional orchards lost since the 1950s, we must protect what’s left. At Saturday’s #HanamiUK, the wish was for another 100 years #SaveCotonOrchard 🙏🏻🌸🐝

Hanami in Coton Orchard with #Sakura Cherry Tree Project 🌸🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

Busway vs. biodiversity: the battle for Coton orchard The owner of an orchard west of Cambridge challenges plans for a busway that would fell 500 of her trees

200 years of history, biodiversity, and rare species are at risk as a busway threatens Coton Orchard.

Orchard owner Anna Gazeley shares her concerns in this interview.

Report by @aidanbaker.bsky.social

#SaveCotonOrchard #Cambridge #SustainableDevelopment

Busway vs. biodiversity: the battle for Coton orchard The owner of an orchard west of Cambridge challenges plans for a busway that would fell 500 of her trees

A planned Cambridge bus route will cut through Coton Orchard, one of the region’s last traditional orchards. Owner Anna Gazeley speaks out on risks to biodiversity & the environment. 🌳 Interview by @aidanbaker.bsky.social
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#SaveCotonOrchard #BiodiversityMatters

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Just donated to help #SaveCotonOrchard from unscrupulous South Cambs councillors #Orchards #Greenbelt #Nature - feel free to do the same app.sheepcrm.com/cambridgeppf...

GCP backers push an #orchard vs. #woods narrative, pitting communities against each other—divide & conquer. But Madingley Road isn’t moving. A bus lane would nudge traffic over, likely helping the SSSI, not hurting it. It’d also #SaveCotonOrchard, save taxpayers £ms, & give commuters more choice 🌳🚌❌

🚨 Independent Cambs County Councillors – You didn’t get a say in the GCP’s backroom farce—only Lib/Lab got a vote—but tomorrow you can end it. With just a few votes tipping the balance, you have the power to stop GCP’s off-road busway to Grange Rd, #SaveCotonOrchard and taxpayers £200m 🌳🚌❌🗳️