This is exactly what we have been warning about. But oh no, anyone who objects to the changes is a selfish, privileged nimby, a zealot, a blocker, an elitist. Let's trash the lives of England's poorest communities, and smear anyone who complains. Thanks Keir. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns
Plenty of food for thought in this article.
Not least the proposal for attempting to shift the larval food plant of the English subspecies of Swallowtail.
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Abstract The Swallowtail butterfly, native to the United Kingdom (Papilio machaon subspecies britannicus), is found almost exclusively in the Norfolk Broads, where it has been isolated for nearly 50 y...
Despite the summer showers, these beauties are out and about at the slightest flash of sun. I’m leading more Swallowtail tours tomorrow and Wednesday and there may still be a place left on Weds for any lastminute fairy-folk! @greenwingstours.bsky.social
Spot the Swallowtail! (Still a couple of spaces on my @greenwingstours.bsky.social Swallowtail day-tour this Wednesday)
A few people saying this is AI but it's a Lesser Purple Emperor and the wing flashing is very characteristic, with its eye-spots designed to alarm, repel or befuddle potentially dangerous birds.
We have to find an alternative organising principle to unceasing economic growth, which is destroying our planet and human health & wellbeing. Good analysis of important World Justice report by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dear Bluesky folk, What are your favourite nature-quest non-fiction books? I'm writing a piece about this peculiar sub-genre. My own The Butterfly Isles is one but there's also Much Ado About Mothing, The Orchid Hunter, Orchid Summer, Chasing the Ghost. There must be loads of others I'm missing!
Edward Pollard
The gov's absurd rhetoric about nature "blocking" development continues when of course wild species are (sometimes illegally) destroyed every day by building work. This latest case is tragic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Stupendous Swallowtails showing on the Norfolk Broads today. Must be best ever @greenwingstours.bsky.social tour day! Also starring red footed falcon, cuckoos, baby Chinese water deer. Thanks @benlewisuk.bsky.social. Still places on this Wed’s Swallowtail day-trip if any spontaneous folk fancy it!
Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak
