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Campaign calling to #SaveOurSwifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with #SwiftBricks" - safe places for these birds to nest. Will you join me? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...
¿Por qué Escocia obligará a poner nidos en edificios nuevos? #Escocia #SwiftBricks #Vencejos #Biodiversidad #ArquitecturaSostenible #Construccion #NaturalezaUrbana #Rehabilitacion #ReinoUnido #Gibraltar #8defebrero #felizdomingo #MedioAmbiente #Urbanismo #AvesUrbanas donporque.com/escocia-obli...
Common Swift finished recently. A new law has just been passed in Scotland requiring Swift bricks to be installed in every new home.
#WildlifeArt #NaturalhistoryIllustration #BritishBirds #Swift #SwiftBricks
🐦⬛ Scotland passes a law for all new buildings to install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! #swiftbricks
MON THE SCOTS 🏴 This is amazing. I fucking love swifts. We had them in the eaves every year for two decades, then a new roof covered the gap. They found another roof to nest in, but a swift brick would have saved us all a lot of trauma that summer 😭 #SwiftBricks
'Now's the day, and now's the hour.'
#ScotlandIsForSwifts #SwiftBricks
I've emailed PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk. Will you?
#SwiftBricks
Tranen van blijdschap! Schotland neemt een wet aan om gierzwaluwstenen in nieuwbouw te verplichten. ...
Gierzwaluwen (swifts) (en andere vogels) krijgen standaard neststenen in nieuwbouw in Schotland. Het is net bij wet geregeld.
#gierzwaluw #neststenen #swift #swiftbricks
"... to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zie ook bsky.app/profile/hann...
Yay!!!!!!!! Swift bricks will be fitted in all new developments by law!!!!!
England, you should catch up!!
#swiftbricks #saveswifts
In England Swifts are having to take sterner measures... #swiftbricks
Great news!
England needs to do this too.
#swiftbricks
By the way, if you look up at Arthur’s Seat when you walk out of the Scottish Parliament then you will often see the resident Peregrine Falcons … circling, watching and waiting.
Great news on the #SwiftBricks
Some good news
#SwiftBricks
#Birds
#Scotland
Campaigners vow to keep fighting for mandatory swift bricks in new Welsh buildings after the government rejected the low-cost proposal. They are now targeting party manifestos ahead of the 2026 Senedd election.
#SwiftBricks #Wales #SeneddElection #Conservation #WelshPolitics
The change, secured by @scottishgreens.org MSP @markruskell.bsky.social will ensure that all new buildings over a certain size must include #SwiftBricks as part of their design.
#Swifts #birders
greens.scot/news/greens-...
@stellacreasy.bsky.social 🙏
(these own goals do so much damage)
#Swiftbricks
This govt needs - every - caring action flag policy it can implement
cc @quietriotpod.bsky.social constituency pls consider writing to your MP
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Looking forward to amending the Natural Environment Bill to tackle the nature emergency and give wild animals a home #swiftbricks #redsquirrels #lynx
The news that #Labour have refused to mandate #Swiftbricks is heart-sinking,
One of our most iconic birds.
Such a simple way to help them.
I can only come to the conclusion that Labour. hate. nature.
#birds #ornithology #nature
northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2023/05/02/t...
I do not understand the reason Labour would vote against #SwiftBricks ?
Why?
What’s so difficult?
#SwiftBricks
My review of 'Nature needs you' by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social has just been published in Environmental Values.
While the #TheFeatherSpeech campaign on #swiftbricks remains at a stalemate, you can read here why I consider Hannah's book so important.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#SwiftBricks sacrificed as a dog whistle to win a few more thousand grubby Reform UK votes no doubt. The small-mindedness & defeatism of the Labour Government is off the scale.
And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
We have just written an open letter to Lord Krebs via newspapers &email, signed by 77 swift conservation groups across the UK showing our incredulity at his incorrect comments in the House of Lords debate on amendment 245 Planning & Infrastructure Bill this week.
#SwiftBricks #PlanningBill
We challenge Lord Krebs’ claim that Amendment 245 won’t work. Swifts nest in 4–5m buildings as Evidenced in our film l. They need swift bricks to survive as old sites vanish
Listen to swift conservation experts!
#SaveOurSwifts #SwiftBricks #PlanningBill
A disgraceful U-turn. The gov’s dropped plans for bird-friendly #swiftbricks — cheap, simple homes for a species down 66% since 1995. Weak “guidance” won’t save wildlife. Build for nature, not just profit.
👉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Swifts #NatureRecovery #Wildlife
The Labour Government - determined to make themselves even more unpopular with voters who love nature.
Another reason to join the @greenparty.org.uk
#swiftbricks
It's not rocket science is it? Why are they so reluctant to embrace the biosphere...🙄🤦♀️ #swiftbricks
