‘Northumberland named as UK's best national park’

It’s largely a barren, lifeless, treeless, depressing green desert, grazed to death by countless hopelessly subsidised sheep.

If you want to visit an actual national park go abroad. apple.news/AyK1Ew8VBRhWLY…

Important thread

Vets need to rethink how they are prescribing flea and worm products...vettimes.co.uk/news/parasitic…

Scotland wants to become the world's first rewilded country
Via: World Economic Forum

My thoughts on the urgent need for better pesticide regulation in the UK. RT if you agree.
theconversation.com/pesticides-urg…

Vets urged to stop giving pesticide flea treatments after river pollution study from Dave Goulson et al reveals contamination through pet owner handwashing & washing bedding among others literally go down the drain theguardian.com/environment/20…

I knew this was a problem, shocked how bad it is. Ban of agricultural neonicotnoids has achieved notoriety, but many pet owners are inadvertently releasing these into the environment every day. Please repost to fellow pet owners. Please talk to your vet's about the practice.

In the four years since Brexit, the EU has added 31 new chemicals to its Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) watchlist. The U.K. has added zero. politico.eu/article/the-eu…

Our new research finds that spot-on flea treatments on pets are a major source of river contamination with potent insecticides. Also, owners hands are continually contaminated by contact with treated pets. Pls RT (1/2)
theguardian.com/environment/20… Rose Perkins PAN UK

Dear Rishi Sunak,
Please do one good thing in your premiership and scrap tomorrow's bill to allow more North Sea oil & gas licences.
Or call an election now; we've all had enough, nobody voted for you.
Pls RT if you agree.
thefederal.com/category/inter…

This is a great source of indepedent (not funded by pharma!), evidence-based information for SQPs and veterinary professionals on pet parasiticides and the environment

Why I am leaving Twitter.

I have made the decision to leave Twitter.

Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our…

1. This paper in Nature should spell an end to the nonsense spread by Allan Savory et al: that livestock grazing can cause a net removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It shows that soil carbon cannot compensate for livestock’s own emissions. nature.com/articles/s4146… 🧵

Hello , I’ve written another letter to antanddec about the ongoing appalling abuse of animals on ITV programme I'm A Celebrity... . I’ve tried to be polite but my patience has run thin . If you agree with what it says please RT . #ImACeleb

Native American land loss in the USA

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

To everyone straining every sinew to make change happen, keep going.

To everyone else, it’s inevitable that you’re going to join in, so why not start now? theguardian.com/environment/20…