MAJOR NEWS!!!! 🌱🚨 . After MONTHS of waiting, the @OfficeforEP has finally confirmed that both @NENorthWest and @WirralCouncil may have acted unlawfully and failed to consider key elements of SAC foreshore clearance proposals. More to come…. @TonyJuniper

Enormous well done to Warwick DC councillors who have loudly sounded concerns over the horrendous Pt3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Please @lpoolcouncil - do the same! @BelleValeLabour @CllrLauraRC .

RT @Love_plants: Irreplaceable meadows need protecting📢📢. We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down….

Has anyone else noticed it?. After years of waiting, it looks like we’re going to have a mast year with our native oaks!!! I’ll be collecting acorns from veteran and ancient trees around Liverpool later this year for anyone or nurseries who would like some! 🌱❤️

Spotted the striking (and pungent) bog myrtle (Myrica gale) in a Cumbrian upland fen yesterday. Once common on the Manchester Mosses before industry wiped it out over a century ago, @Lancswildlife and I have been working to reintroduce it since 2019 😍🌱

RT @paulpowlesland: When I smelt the unmistakable smell of sewage whilst out canvassing today, I pulled on my trusty waders & took my testi….

@CheshireWT.

Last recorded >150 years ago in 1874, I was absolutely shocked to find oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia) at Abbots Moss in Cheshire!!. Not only is this beastie both rare and red-listed, this will soon probably be the last population in the entire county! 😱🌱❤️

#NationalMeadowsDay.

A once-common and abundant plant of grasslands, Dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) needs help. To help restore populations of this functionally important & imperilled beastie, I’ve put a guide together on its propagation, reintroduction and management:

RT @donnarainey4: I was very humbled & hugely honoured to receive this award yesterday.Many thanks to @UlsterUni who made it a very special….

A day early for #NationalMeadowsDay, but just look at this ancient wildflower meadow I stumbled upon in Staffordshire the other day! . Grasslands should be full of life like this beauty, but often fall silent. Restoring them is vital if we want to see nature recover 🌱❤️

RT @DanicaPriest: I’m heartbroken to hear that the amazing community campaigner @Saralimback has died yesterday. Sara was one of the first….

@CheshireWT.

AMAZING NEWS!!!!. Known from less than 10 places in England and just one site left in Cheshire, this beaut saltmarsh flat-sedge (Blysmus rufus) was found for the first time today on Hoylake beach on Wirral!!! So exciting eeee 😍🌱

Approximately 15sqm, the only area managed by @RiversideUK allowed to grow over summer, and they’ve caved in and decimated it. The amount of time & energy it’s taken for @RiversideUK to leave this patch alone, from community petitions to seed application, has been massive 🫩🌱

RT @judithcallagha9: Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding….

RT @CHinchliffMP: I urge the Government to back my Planning & Infrastructure Bill amendments. We were promised a win-win for nature and gr….

A quick reminder that gardens can make such important spaces for biodiversity. 4 years on and things have come quite a way for me…. - over 30 marsh and spotted orchids ✅.- rocketing wildflower species richness ✅.- huge abundance of pollinators and other invertebrates ✅

Not seen in this part of northwest England for over 50 years - it was amaze to find Common Cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense)!. Unlike its cousin, yellow rattle, this beastie doesn’t parasitise the roots of grasses. Instead, it goes for woody plants, including oaks 😍🌱

From a single marsh orchid in 2022, this rare example of remnant lowland meadow in Netherley now has 28 flowering! . <10,000ha of this remains in Britain which makes expanding naturally wildflower rich spaces like this so important🌱❤️. @lpoolcouncil @BelleValeLabour @CarlCashman