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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 15m

Very nice!! There are certainly plenty of them around😄

Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4h

'Last year, 8 million hectares vanished, half the size of England' 😱

Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 11h

Forests are vital for life on Earth, yet banks and agribusiness keep profiting from their destruction.

Last year, 8 million hectares vanished, half the size of England.

At #COP30 in the Amazon, leaders must act to end deforestation and make polluters pay.

#RespectTheAmazon #MakePollutersPay

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 10h

Knowles-Brown is a former Chair of the Scottish Hawk Board & Vice Chair of the UK Hawk Board which provides welfare guidelines for those keeping raptors in captivity.

#RaptorResearch

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Prominent falconer Andrew Knowles-Brown fined almost £14,000 for ‘shocking’ animal cruelty

Prominent falconer and eagle breeder, Andrew Knowles-Brown, 70, has been sentenced after investigators from the Scottish SSPCA found approximately 90 eagles and other birds were living in ‘un…

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 10h

Almost two billion items of plastic packaging are thrown away in the UK each week. Shampoo, body wash and liquid hand wash add to this plastic pile-up - so switching from bottles to bars is better for the environment. Eight plastic-free soap bars to try: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/Natu...

Stack of four soap bars on a mossy stone wall

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h

Wonders of privatisation.

Royal Mail fined £21m.

Hasn't t meet the 1st and 2nd class mail delivery targets to years.

No personal fines on execs. Corporate fines will no doubt be passed on to customers.

No incentive to deliver value for money. People fleeced.

Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom for missing delivery targets

It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4h

Wow - what a colour! Mine are very drab this year😕

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7h

Mount Everest

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 4h

Slender-billed Curlew Declared Extinct

IUCN confirms the loss of a once-widespread Western Palearctic wader after three decades without a verified record

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...

Slender-billed Curlew Declared Extinct

IUCN confirms the loss of a once-widespread Western Palearctic wader after three decades without a verified record

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk

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Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 4h

Signed

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 21h

38d.gs/texy

Suspend Boris Johnson's taxpayer allowance

I’ve just signed the petition to suspend Boris Johnson’s £115k ex-PM allowance until they’ve finished investigating his dodgy deals. Leaks show he was using his old office for private business, meetin...

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Ben Averis @averisben.bsky.social · 1d

My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.

Five Merveille du Jour moths found by Alison Averis in her moth trap here in SE Scotland on the morning of 14th October 2025. Background: bark with lichens.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 7d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4h

Oh Stuart!🙄

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12h

The water looks great but I have not been in it yet. Stuart went in (with his watch on) so it will be finished for good.

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4h

That's what you get for shore-side paddling!😂

Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4h

Fab. Stink horn?😂😉

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 4h

😄 yes, that song is nauseating isn't it!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'.

Brexit is the biggest self-harm. UK economy hasn't recovered.

Farage, the part-time MP, collects millions from 2nd/3rd jobs, full time MP pay+exps; often missing from the Commons.

Pushes hatred to grab power.

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 1d

“When grouse moor licences are redrawn to exclude the very areas where wildlife crime occurs, we are not deterring raptor persecution, we are enabling it.”

@revivecoalition.bsky.social makes front page news again.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Ongoing problems with grouse moor licensing, trap licensing & hunt licensing is ‘enabling’ rather than deterring wildlife crime in Scotland

The Herald has given more front page coverage in its series about Scottish land reform, this time focusing on recent legislation that was supposed to protect wildlife but instead is effectively &#8…

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Half term is approaching! Join us for FREE family craft activities on Tuesday 28 and Thursday 30 October to make your own spooky lantern to take away! More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw... 😀👻🎃

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 1d

“New Zealand has signalled to the world’s biggest meat and dairy producers that it’s fine to ignore methane – the largest human-made driver of warming.”

Other major meat and dairy exporters could now follow, sparking a race to the bottom for climate action.

#StopBigAg

Greenpeace responds to New Zealand’s dairy industry-backed methane rollback - Greenpeace International

New Zealand’s government has confirmed it will rewrite its climate law to weaken the country’s methane emissions target – a move Greenpeace warns will violate the Paris Agreement and embolden other ma...

www.greenpeace.org

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober2025 14) Trunk. The burial of a woman from Bronze Age Denmark at Borum Eshøj. She was buried in a tree trunk coffin with a panoply of accoutrements from bronze discs & neck/arm rings to a comb , pottery vessel and box. She was in her preserved clothing and even hair remained. #archaeology