Wensum Woodlanders 🍃💚🍃🌳🦇🌳
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Fighting to protect our Wensum Valley woods and wildlife from the ecologically reckless Norwich Western Link. Instagram Wensum_Woodlanders. Also on BSky!
Joined September 2019
Why is the Aarhus convention important? It guarantees the public three fundamental rights: - to know (access to environmental information), - to participate (a voice in decision-making), - to challenge (the ability to hold government to account in court).
Deregulation in planning and a withdrawal from Aarhus to block judicial reviews will lead to devastated habitats and decreased biodiversity. It will make it easier for the road zealots to build a road through places like our woods. They were stopped through tough regulations!
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Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out | Labour | The Guardian
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Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
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URGENT action for wildlife Use link to ask your MP to vote to keep Amendment 130 in new Planning and Infrastructure Bill 🔽 https://t.co/wYuJ7LoKZu Plse Repost: @WTSWW @SurreyWT @SussexGrazing @KentWildlife @ChilternsNT @lizbonnin @WWoodlanders @ryeharbour_NR @SussexOrnitholo
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It's now or never. This is the last chance to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Email your MP to keep amendment 130 in the Bill.
Good news! The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill is nearly law and thanks to the Lords, Amendment 130 has been added to protect nature. But it only stays if MPs vote for it. 🔔 Constituents: tell your MP to #BackAmendment130. 👉 https://t.co/dH2ZAXflrr
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals | Climate crisis | The Guardian
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Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis
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America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
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Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
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“Nature conservation should never be dismissed as ‘blocking’, but recognised as something fundamentally key to humanity’s future.”
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According to planning conditions, Wolborough Fen in Newton Abbot must be protected as groundworks are prepared for 1,200 homes
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This is why we must not relinquish our right to environmental justice . There are moves to do so . They will hurt us all . Top work (as ever) by the brilliant @Andrew9Boswell . @WildJustice_org
🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct. First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments. @ChrisGPackham
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“As well as failing to stop funding fossil fuel projects, many banks are also not funding climate solutions and the green transition.” No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds | The Guardian
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‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE
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“The report painted a grim picture of the world’s chances of avoiding increasingly severe impacts from the climate crisis.” Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 | Coal | The Guardian
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Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
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Show us a better autumn duo! 😍 What nature moments have made you smile this weekend? Share your snaps below 👇
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Can you actually believe this? A swift brick costs £35 But this dire, anti-nature government, must make sure it does all it can to maximise house builders' profits Totally inexcusable https://t.co/13zgVEWzEU
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Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
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This is an absolute no-brainer @SteveReedMP Why won't you mandate Swift bricks in new builds? Save one swift today, and save a species tomorrow.
If you would like to save swifts with a brick with hole in it after a 50 million year old existence then let me know.
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Nature action: email STEVE REED m: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk simply saying MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. If you want you can email me at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com for a template but that is the simple message to convey. PEOPLE POWER WORKS BUT ONLY … if enough people actually act !!
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@SteveReedMP Did you forget what you promised? You used to care about nature… who bought you?
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The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️ Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system. It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed. (1/3)
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Absolutely terrifying - the government is leaving communities utterly exposed to the effects of the climate emergency. We urgently need a plan with binding targets for how this govt will protect us as extreme heat and flooding worsen in the years ahead.
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We might have got carried away with the chestnuts. It seems to be a very good year for them. These will go into stews, flour, or just get roasted for evening nibbles.
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Just in case you haven't seen this hugely popular @friends_earth petition... 120,000 people have signed it already. Please add your signature. @CommunityPlann1 Stop the government’s plan threatening nature https://t.co/8RgNtFQBoA
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Did you know big business could soon be allowed to wreck the environment and destroy nature? The new Planning and Infrastructure Bill could mean damaging projects get the green light so long as
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‘Please don’t tell anyone that I decided one of the rarest species in the UK wasn’t worth protecting because I have a good relationship with this developer’ says @RachelReevesMP who is ecologically illiterate. Spread this far and wide. She deserves to be shamed out of a job.
Why is @RachelReevesMP so offhand over "one of the rarest creatures in Britain (that) is an indicator of clean rivers and ponds"? Does she not care about the ALREADY disastrous state of our waterways? Too cosily in bed with developers and their profits? https://t.co/PdIKZW4pEy
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Instead they proved themselves to be reckless with both the environment and tax-payers’ money, and completely lacking in contrition when the project inevitably failed! I’m frankly amazed these people still have jobs!
Perhaps if the council hadn’t squandered £56m on a vanity project that was clearly doomed from the outset, then new money for alternatives might be forthcoming. New delay in finding alternatives to Norwich Western Link - BBC News
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Why is the Aarhus convention important? It guarantees the public three fundamental rights: - to know (access to environmental information), - to participate (a voice in decision-making), - to challenge (the ability to hold government to account in court).
Deregulation in planning and a withdrawal from Aarhus to block judicial reviews will lead to devastated habitats and decreased biodiversity. It will make it easier for the road zealots to build a road through places like our woods. They were stopped through tough regulations!
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