Tony Whitehead
@TonyDartmoor
Putting the nature back on Dartmoor
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27-10-2020 08:44:44
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BREAKING: Over 100 nature and climate groups are joining the #RestoreNatureNow march!
Will you come and stand with them?
Together we’ll make our call loud and clear 📢
Sign up now👇
restorenaturenow.com
Our rivers are choking on pollution, we’re losing our precious woodlands, our seas are overfished & our peat bogs are being burned. Pledge to march with me on June 22nd in London. RestoreNatureNow.com #RestoreNatureNow
Moorland burning can be environmentally damaging, especially on peatlands
We used satellite imagery to map the extent of burning across Great Britain and the overlap with sensitive habitats
Read more: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie…
Full paper: …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rs…
1/3: Hot on the heels of Campaign for National Parks #NationalParks Health Check, which highlighted that just 6% of National Parks are well-managed for nature, great to see that nature recovery has come up as the top priority for the Yorkshire Dales National Park National Park. cravenherald.co.uk/news/24259981.…
Precisely why Gov’t shouldn’t take control over SSSIs. This serves the wealthy, the less-than-weekenders & does the exact opposite of reviving rural communities. ‘The countryside does not need more millionaires living in plush barn conversions.’ CPREBerkshire 1/3 🧵 Imagine,
Lovely to spend time with this thoroughly inspiring bunch of people at the launch of the new #WildService book in London last night …
SSSIs in #NationalParks are on average in worse condition than those elsewhere 📉
There's also a staggering lack of data on monitoring protected areas making it difficult to know how they're doing within the Parks🙄
Help us revive our Parks 👉buff.ly/3Q3KUcR