Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃
@vickihird
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Env justice/farming/food/bugs Campaigns, lobby, research Also @WildlifeTrusts. Wrote 'Rebugging the Planet' & 'Perfectly Safe to Eat?' Own views. RT≠agree
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Joined February 2009
Healthy soil – the ultimate essential infrastructure .new soil obsessed blog by me - looking towards @Groundswellaguk where soil is a key focus .@SoilsAlliance .
wildlifetrusts.org
As the Wildlife Trusts head off to the regenerative farming event Groundswell, where soil health rightly takes centre stage, Vicki Hird looks at the tools we need to restore and protect our soils.
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RT @domdyer70: In Norway, innovative underwater drones are being used to tackle a silent but deadly threat to marine life — ghost fishing n….
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RT @hackneycouncil: Help us water thirsty street trees 🚿. We water new trees weekly in warm weather, but you can help by giving them 2 to 3….
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Great new job here - come and work with me! I need a new land use policy manager. For a better, nature based farming future.
wildlifetrusts.current-vacancies.com
Are you a strategic communicator with a passion for policy, public affairs and making a real difference? Do you dream of using your skills to make a real difference in conservation and farming? We...
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Interesting - yet another. Food companies to begin tests on greenhouse gas footprinting.@WRAP_NGO
thegrocer.co.uk
The 'LED4Food' programme, spearheaded by climate change experts Wrap, will introduce common methodology to allow various rival carbon footprinting systems used by food and drink companies to work in...
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Wow well done @GreenpeaceUK.- stark piece of art on damage and death from continued fossil fuel drilling #ClimateCrisis
theguardian.com
Greenpeace climbers attached a new work, titled Butchered, by the renowned artist Anish Kapoor on to a Shell platform in the North Sea
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Our latest blog at @thewildlifetrusts on the need for @DefraGovUK to urgently address the lack of support for ongoing nature friendly farming that means great actions by farmers are being lost or can't be maintained. @NFFNUK.@GrahamDenny9.@NFUtweets
wildlifetrusts.org
As farmers across England who have been taking actions to restore nature for years face the prospect of funding drying up, our Senior Land Use Policy Manager, Barnaby Coupe looks at what the Govern...
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RT @GrahamDenny9: Appreciate the retweets to see if we can motivate our government into the real world of wildlife loss ! @Jes_Squirrell @F….
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lovely case study on conservation grazing with native erds in low numbers creating huge niche wildlife habitats and ecosystems .@SusFoodTrust.
🌳 Our recent #GrazingLivestock report featured several case studies of farmers located around the UK who are taking a holistic approach to how they farm. In this video, we meet Teleri Fielden and Ned Feesey at Hafod y Llyn Isaf Farm, two of the farmers featured in our report.
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Scrapping Biodiversity Net Gain for small sites would undermine business and investor confidence via @businessgreen.
businessgreen.com
A failure to capitalise on this size of economic potential offered by the fledgling BNG system risks destabilising the solid foundations on which the market is growing, writes Craig Bennett from The...
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A good long read about the state of farming in the food system today. Very sad to hear Peter lundgren selling. He's been a great advocate for nature friendly farming for years. @TheConversation
theconversation.com
In the Fens of eastern England, small-scale farmers fear for their future amid ‘astronomical’ costs and flatlining income.
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RT @KentWildlife: With a sunny forecast ahead, are you beach ready? 🏖️. Don't forget to pack a good book! Our online shop has plenty of tit….
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RT @GlobalJusticeUK: "We’ve been calling on the government to scrap ISDS in its trade deals for years, to stop exactly this eventuality: fo….
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Singapore firm using secretive international legal system to seek compensation for climate concerns blocking plans
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RT @WildlifeTrusts: New briefing on the state of our water environment for Green Alliance by our water policy manager, @this_damselfly 👇.
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"Stick insects spent over 100m years perfecting their cosplay as leaves, branches and moss. They are diabolically difficult to spot,".Great article in @guardianeco.
theguardian.com
Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find in Australia highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystem, writes entomologist Gwen Pearson
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Good to see this. Breaking down barriers and stereotypes and showing how nature nurtures.
theguardian.com
Lewisham MC Fekky went from collaborating with Skepta to buying his own farm – without ever having set foot on one. Hood 2 Farm sees him trying to learn the skills, and turning his wild, slapstick...
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RT @GreenAllianceUK: 🌊 New stocktake on UK water policy post-Brexit by.@this_damselfly. 84% of England's waters fail standards and sewage….
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RT @markrwilliamson: Current drought status in England. Illustrates the potential fly-in-the-ointment of plans to supply the drier areas i….
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RT @LBC: - In the year to March, 96% of migrants to the UK were legal.- 4% were illegal.- 47% of people in a YouGov poll say there's more i….
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