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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 1h

Time to give the EP canteen the US libraries treatment?
(*Sarcasm alert)

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 2h

Profit is entirely down to subsidies (mandates, tax breaks etc)

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 21h

Food concerns everyone, and so do the rules that protect it. If the EU rolls back food and pesticide laws, we all lose: our health, nature, clean water.

We built these protections together over time. Now let’s defend them.

Speak up now: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...

#HandsOffNature

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 14h

The emblem of the farmland biodiversity crisis.

On my grandpa's farm they were shooting hundreds, year in year out. For generations. Then in the 60's they wiped them out in 5 years when the farm was modernised. Then it went extinct nationally (IT).

Eckhard Gottschalk @rebhahn.bsky.social · 21h

Bird of the year 2026 in Germany!!! By a wide margin, the grey partridge won the @nabu.de vote! I hope the bird will benefit from the increased attention — its population is still in steep decline.
#ornithology 🪶

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 19h

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 12d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 20h

#Biofuels are still made from food and/or on prime farmland (the marginal land BS), they are worse than what they replace (the magic carbon BS), they are massively imported (the rural development BS), it's still first gen (the 2nd & 3rd gen BS).

#MagicalThinking 0 - Reality 1

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 20h

I'm old enough to remember warning about all of this as far back as 2005, alongside @transportenvironment.org & @eeb.org For 2 decades we've been told not not to negative and believe in fairy tales. Guess what, all of our warnings have come true...

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 20h

Dedicating just 3% of the land currently used for biofuels to solar power would produce the same amount of energy - and enough to power one third of the global car fleet, if it were electric.

Those that argue against in field solar are barking up the wrong tree (good planning & design still needed)

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 1d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

This neatly explains yesterday's EP veggie burger ban vote.

It's a demented measure as consumer protection. But it is a key defence for the world's second most destructive industry.

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Paulson Institute @paulsoninstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Since 1970, global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73%, and more than a quarter of our planet’s species now face extinction.

Nature needs advocates. Political will is needed. Action is essential. So is recognition that this work is not optional—it is foundational.

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

Ban the chocolate eggs. Gummy bears might be taken for bush meat. Kidney beans are a clear threat to anyone looking for some Italian rognone. And don't get me started on the French Oiseaux sans tête (headless birds that involve no birds at all).

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh

Ditto Shepherds pie

Feel free to add your own below 👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off the menu as MEPs vote to ban plant-based food terms

Vote is victory for MEPs who want to strengthen position of farmers in food supply chain

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 2d

"In the five years since leaving the EU, rather than protecting British fish, politicians have set catch limits too high, allowing international trawlers to plunder stocks..."
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 2d

Brexit has done nothing to stem sharp decline of UK fish populations, shows study

Experts call for urgent strategy to end overfishing as report shows just 41% of stocks of species such as cod and mackerel considered healthy

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 1d

355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products.

This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused.

If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.

Voting results amendment on meat denominations
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_FR.pdf

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban.

As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

Now let's see if it survives the onslaught of the pyromaniac lobby

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

At a time when the EC seems to increasingly drift into fact free politics, the leaked #bioeconomy strategy draft is refreshing.
It finally recognises the burning of biomass as essentially a waste of precious resource and argues for resource efficiency, material use and judicious resources use.

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

With their own bodies contaminated, would our politicians still vote to weaken pollution control rules?

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 3d

The @eeb.org, together with DK and @chemsec.bsky.social has tested the blood for PFAS of 24 EU leaders from 19 countries

🩸More than half of the politicians tested have concerning levels of #PFAS their blood

Read our press release to learn more about the findings eeb.org/eu-leaders-c...

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

Good news and hopefully a breakthrough in funding conservation along our flyway.

www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

It follows ground breaking work @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social has been doing in the East Asia- Australasia and the Americas flyways.

World Bank and BirdLife launch historic conservation push

The latest Global Flyway Initiative aims to save critical bird habitats and link three continents across the African-Eurasian Flyway…

www.birdlife.org

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Dr. Raphael Weyland @raphaelweyland.bsky.social · 3d

Dear MS Politicians + MEPs @europarl.europa.eu:
Please start making noise about the #LIFE program. The @ec.europa.eu proposal is insufficient, we need dedicated money in the #MFF (ECF/NRP) to #RestoreNature!
cc @cesarluena.bsky.social @juttapaulus.bsky.social @rasmusnordqvist.bsky.social

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

The climate crisis- greed death spiral.

Spanish authorities allow the logging of (living) trees in areas hit by wildfires.

Quick money for the landowner but
-permanent déforestation
-loss of regeneration capacity
-loss of shade for livestock
-More soil erosion

SEO BirdLife @seobirdlife.bsky.social · 3d

❌NO a la tala de los árboles en las zonas incendiadas.

La Junta de Extremadura ha autorizado como medida urgente el aprovechamiento de madera, lo cual implica que se talen todos los árboles.

Info: https://f.mtr.cool/vzqcwgexsi

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

Switzerland is killing 2/3 of the #wolf cubs born this year, notionally to protect livestock.

It will also cull 25 000 (!) cows to prop up prices given the ongoing overproduction (US tariffs have shrunk the market).

www.lematin.ch/story/lait-2...

Lait: 25'000 vaches suisses pourraient être abattues à cause de Trump

Les droits de douane américains ont bouleversé le marché laitier suisse. Pour éviter l’effondrement des prix, les éleveurs doivent réduire leurs cheptels.

www.lematin.ch

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

Don't listen to the dirty lobbies that repeat the "either farming or environment" trope.

Listen to the good farmers that work hard on the ground to make a change.

They deserve support. They need to be empowered.

RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 3d

We’re looking forward to meeting lots of inspiring nature-friendly farmers at the @nffnsnc13.bsky.social summit tomorrow 🌱🧑‍🌾

Farmer Andrew Whiteford shares one of the ways farming can help create safer spaces for wildlife and give species like Corn Buntings a chance to thrive 💚

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 3d

And what is the political response?
Weakening nature protection laws and scrapping conservation funding.

#NihilisticPolitics

European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 3d

🌿 On #WorldHabitatsDay Europe’s habitats are in trouble.

📉 81% of habitats protected under EU law are in poor or bad condition — and most are still declining.

We need full implementation of environmental law, shows #EuropesEnvironment2025: www.eea.europa.eu/en/europe-en...

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 4d

Hard not to agree.
The survival of humanity and solving most of the problems it faces are largely down to overcoming the concentrated power of the big polluters and the Big Men who work for them

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