Nigel Hester
@holnicoteNH
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Worked for nature and landscape conservation for 40 years, mostly on Exmoor, but now retired. A passion for countryside, wildlife, music and cooking good food!
Holnicote, Exmoor, UK
Joined May 2011
Utterly, utterly abhorrent. Devastating. All those children š
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Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israelās offensive
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Breakfast at Tebay before battling north through #StormAmy to arrive at Badachro, 8 hours later. Lou very happy!
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Storm Amy has bought with it some waterfowl movement, with flocks of geese and Whooper Swans around the isle, along with the fifth island record of Little Egret. Other highlights include Olive-backed Pipit and the 12th record of Firecrest: https://t.co/2m3gIzPipr šø A Penn
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Horrific, but this will happen in the UK too if Farage gets in power! Wake up!
ICE stops family at gunpointāsmash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didnāt care," cried mother. āI covered my baby with my bodyāI was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him." She is heard on video
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If you're keen on winds and being windswept, here's the livestream of global winds. You can roam the planet or zoom in to watch #StormAmy doing her thing. Enjoy š https://t.co/MMgUlZNs98
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See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.
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Hmmm... looking at the forecast for #StormAmyā¦ she's a right b***h. Makes Floris look like a real pussy. There's trouble coming. Stay safe everyone!
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From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didnāt apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing
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āClose your eyes and put your passports on the table.ā The most moral army in the world raided and abducted activists (armed with baby formula) on the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were trying to do what their governments failed to do ā break the siege and help Gazans.
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Oh, good grief! This cannot continue...
šØ The Israeli army killed young girl Mariam Abd al-Fattah Zaqout along with her mother and several family members yesterday , in a strike that turned the four-story building sheltering them into ashes.
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I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom. 1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
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PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
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The strange paradox remains that, despite it being the great challenge of our era, the number of truly iconic global communicators on conservation and the environment is vanishingly few. And she was one of the absolute best...
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The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91
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BREAKING: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling of the U.S. Army goes viral with a BRUTAL response to Pete Hegsethās deranged speech, says that the military āwill not execute illegal orders.ā MAGA really kicked the hornetās nest this timeā¦ āBut there were also soldiers and, well,
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In one of his last acts as president, @JoeBiden awarded Jane Goodall the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January. Back when these awards were actually given to folks who were worthy.
Jill and I are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jane Goodall whose activism, vision, and message of hope mobilized a global movement to protect the planet. Above all, Jane taught us that when we search for humanity in the natural world around us, we discover it within
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Truly disgusting stuff from Vance. This isnāt true. Itās race-baiting, migrant-bashing nativist BS. Wonder how his brown Indian in-laws feel about their racist son-in-law.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen and you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed that wait times are especially large and very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals
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