Farming with or farming around nature

Top marks to this farmer for identifying lapwings nesting on his field destined for spring cropping

Ploughed cultivated and drilled around nests

10 in total with three already hatched

#MakingSpaceForNature

Apparently you were on R4 earlier Paul Powlesland - you kept that quiet!!!

“The barrister defending nature”
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Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 That's a very rose-tinted view. See our careful report with London Tenants Federation proposing an alternative estate regeneration approach justspacelondon.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/estate…

Why do we only protect trees when they become profitable? This tree would never have become a precious art exhibit if Banksy hadn't drawn attention to it. Street trees continue to be neglecte/pollarded to within an inch of their lives. Islington Council Haringey Labour Hermitage & Gardens #Green Guardians 💚 N4 / N15

Richard Parker Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 The Telegraph Solution solved without building as much!! blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

“Since 2018, estate renewal can only happen when a majority of residents back it in a ballot. When given a choice, most people vote enthusiastically for a bigger and warmer home”

“a study for CPRE Hants“..”came up with some powerful findings about what protected green belt land can do. The study supported the introduction of a proposed new green belt &found it could generate almost £26m a year in terms of health, wellbeing, economic & ecosystem benefits.

An authorised massacre of Switzerland’s fragile wolf population has been taking place this year, at the behest of livestock farmers who swear that their losses are unacceptable (their losses are in fact minuscule). Well, DNA analysis of 50 wolves killed so far shows that not a…

Where have all the trees gone?🌳❌

This street, like many others in the UK is suffering from the side-effects of off-street parking🚗. There is almost nowhere a tree can now be planted.

The impacts are many: a loss of visual amenity, no shade, suffers worse in heavy rain,…

Poo powered planes

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Jacob Harris Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 The Telegraph Current planning guidance already allows development on brownfield sites like derelict land & car parks in Green Belts. Para 154(g) of the National Planning Policy Framework.

In the Canary Islands lack of affordable housing is a major issue, even leading to hunger strikes
Protesters are demanding 'access to respectable housing', an 'eco-tax' and 'immediate measures to put an end to the raw sewage discharges into the sea'.

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Mayor of London ACORN the union Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes SHAC SHAC Action HASL 35% Campaign Paul Watt DefendCouncilHousing Nunhead Estate TRA Estate Watch DemolitionWatchLdn💙 RentersRightsLondon Renters' Reform Coalition London Renters Union Aylesham Community Action Catford Against Social Cleansing @Homes4AllUK AltonAction

We have-
320,000 people in London on waiting lists for council housing

Pluz- 60,000 households in temporary accommodation

That includes

82,000 children

Yet we have 1000s of empty homes held by councils & housing associations sitting empty, which could be housing people.

Jacob Harris Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 The Telegraph As recent housing developments in Cambridge area are already proving. More housing doesn't necessarily mean cheaper. Here all new housing developments are by private developers and one trues to fo more than 20 per cent social houding/shared told 'its not vost effective'.

“We need affordable housing and protection for green spaces – not rebranding”

My latest piece in The Telegraph

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I've been seeing a growing number of signs up across where I live with campaigns to stop these pylons.

I hope the campaign works, these pylons projects will ruin many parts of the country!

Dan (no longer Canbury) 🇺🇦 Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons HVDC cabling scored very well in ESO recent report. ESO says adopting an integrated offshore grid for the UK, would save consumers £6bn, quicker and greener.

Helen Davies Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 CommunityPlanningAlliance In my district and 180km from Norfolk to Tilbury National grid are planning on rip out trees, hedgerows - even though there’s better ways to transport green energy from Norfolk coast to Tilbury, NG won’t consider…?
#offshoregrid quicker, greener and cheaper.

Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 Good book big subject well written with authority by a man who's done the walk and knows the talk...

Richer Sounds brilliant business and now owned by its workers.

More essential reading here Rosie