But I doubt the builders would build them - not enough ***profit*** in it for them.

If a Govt genuinely supported construction of Actually Affordable homes, where people need then, with the correct infrastructure, and access to vital nature - instead of sprawling estates of 4/5 bed homes built on floodplains 15 miles from the only GP & school - then I might consider voting for them

The hope that quashing environmental protection will kickstart UK building is a derided fallacy. Building stops when ppl can’t afford houses:

“…the market remains uncertain…” Taylor Wimpey

“…we saw build costs increase by around 33%… house price inflation (is) flat.” Persimmon

It’s
Not
Newts!

That said; with a united backing, I would call on @wclnews.bsky.social to coalesce around a strong and bold vision that is uncompromising in placing nature and the environment at the top of their agenda.

Anything less than a united voice is proving easily batted away by a government prioritising *Planning* above the *Environment*.

@wclnews.bsky.social is our best current mechanism to mount an opposition.

I call on all British eNGOs (big & small) to work together to refocus the Labour govt.

In Abu Dhabi since yesterday attending the World Conservation Congress of #IUCN which will end on 15 October 2025. Great place to learn and meet #conservationists and #naturelovers @davidoakes.bsky.social

PLAN:

1. Locate 2nd/3rd homes on the UK mainland worth in excess of £1m.

2. Rehouse all inhabitants of Isle of Wight into these properties (reimburse previous owners with gratitude and certificate saying they’ve provided a social good.)

3. Rewild IoW - including reintroduction of Lynx & Wolves.

If you've not discovered @thenerve.news yet, their first edition is out today and is more than worth diving into.

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

Took D1 to meet @drjessfrench.bsky.social and some of her mini-beasts at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival yesterday. Jess is ALWAYS an enthusiastic whirl of joyful entomo-trivia!

Flashback listen:
www.treesacrowd.fm/dr-jess-fren...

A renewed perspective upon the genocide we could, as a nation, work harder to halt.

Please take time to read.

Very well deserved!!
🌳🌳🌳

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C"

Stark "production gap" report from @unep.org today
www.sei.org/publications...

I would **love** to interview Walton Ford for the podcast…

…if any one contemporary artist epitomises the juncture between art and nature (alongside my love of the absurd and grotesque!) then it is he; “John James Audubon meets Hieronymous Bosch” as someone once told me.

@treesacrowd.bsky.social

Good news for Golden Eagles in south Scotland.

What fate awaits the fledgling, 'Princeling'? (Apart from a trip to town to change his name by deed poll - Eagle McEagleFace would have been better than that!).

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/19/c...

Seriously though; despite the cultural value of sheep fell farming to the communities of the Lake District, overgrazing has denuded this landscape. For nature and community to both thrive, a better balance between past practices and present knowledge needs to be implemented. STAT.

Woke in Cumbria
Grazing Herdwick gently purring
Can I climb hill yet?

Today we're in court!

Our case challenging overgrazing on Dartmoor will be heard over the next two days. Wish us luck.

Read the press release from our lawyers: wildjustice.org.uk/sssis/legal-...

Spent the day promoting the Woodland Trust’s TREE OF THE YEAR 2025 competition on National and Regional Radio; and when I wasn’t doing that, I was gleefully finding baby caterpillars in fresh peas!

VOTE: woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

Becoming Earth, an essay by Robin Wall Kimmerer for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social & @humansandnature.bsky.social

emergencemagazine.org/essay/becomi... #naturewriting

Last year, I took a research trip to Cookham Dean - the place that inspired The Wind in the Willows, visiting the original Wild Wood - Bisham Wood - & walking the banks of the Thames. @davidoakes.bsky.social joined me for a charming podcast chat podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

'A rumbunctious new telling of Tolstoy’s story... epic and absorbing'
★★★★ The Times

Anna Karenina adapted for stage by NHB author Phillip Breen is now on at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Get your playscript copy at the venue, or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/anna-karenin...

Calling everybody who walks, runs, wheels, cycles and rides!

Who's up for helping to create the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland?

Please check out, back and share our new #SlowWays crowdfunding campaign 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐

Thousands of protected places in England are at risk from the planning bill in its current form, according to legal opinion. We must all write to our MPs – only major amendments or a Labour rebellion will stop massive near-future wildlife destruction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...