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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this from We Own It.

weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...

Keep the Baltic Sea clean and safe!

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚

action.wemove.eu

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 4d

One of the best things I ever did going vegan.

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10....

Keep the Baltic Sea clean and safe!

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚

action.wemove.eu

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 6d

Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms action.eko.org/a/eu-wide-ba...

Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms

Seafood corporations want to turn Europe into a testing ground for octopus factory farms, locking these intelligent animals in tiny tanks where suffering is so extreme they even turn to cannibalism.An

action.eko.org

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...

Keep the Baltic Sea clean and safe!

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚

action.wemove.eu

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...

Keep the Baltic Sea clean and safe!

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚

action.wemove.eu

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 25d

Eight vaquitas left: illegal fishing ‘squeezing the last breaths’ from endangered porpoise www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/eight-vaquitas-left-illegal-fishing-squeezing-the-last-breaths-from-endangered-porpoise

Eight vaquitas left: illegal fishing ‘squeezing the last breaths’ from endangered porpoise — Species Unite

A new report criticizes Mexico’s failure to enforce gillnet bans in the Upper Gulf of California, threatening the world’s smallest porpoise.

www.speciesunite.com

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · 26d

Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban Israel from international football! #banisrael action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...

Kick Israel out of the 2026 World Cup

Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban ...

action.wemove.eu

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Sep 2

Fires rage across Europe – and extremists call climate action “madness.” Our leaders meet this month to decide our future. Tell them: lock in the 90% emissions cut and reject climate rollbacks. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...

action.wemove.eu

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Sep 1

I would ban it & all animal 'sports'.

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes of course.

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have.

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 23

Agree but there is no such thing as 'green energy'. Wind farms are destructive to wildlife, have high environmental impact & recycling issues. Tidal barrages destroy mudflats & solar covers land. Far too much power is wasted for frivolous reasons.

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 23

Both have tumours now & are in need of help.

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 23

Beautiful scene, lovely clean river.

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 23

Bottom trawling is highly destructive. I've signed the petition to stop bottom trawling on seamounts - join me in speaking up to protect the oceans here: greenpeace.nz/p1cize

PETITION: Ban Bottom Trawling

Join the campaign to protect the oceans from destructive fishing. No more bottom trawling on seamounts!

greenpeace.nz

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 15

Let's future-proof our NHS! This open letter is calling on all political parties to commit to never charging for a GP appointment. If you agree, you can add your name too: 38d.gs/unv0

To all political parties: Commit to no GP appointment fees EVER

I just signed 38 Degrees’ open letter asking ALL political parties to commit to NEVER charging GP fees - will you join me?

38d.gs

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 13

Israel can do as it likes with the full backing of Trump.

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Aug 13

Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.

Will you join Dame Judi Dench, @wildcard.land and 111,000 people in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? 38d.gs/lgql

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations

Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

38d.gs

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John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Jul 24

Privatisation broke our water system.

@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.

Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨The Green Deal is under attack! Polluters’ lobbyists and right-wing forces want to gut Europe’s most ambitious climate plan. We need a stronger Green Deal—one that protects our planet and promotes a sustainable economy! Sign NOW to defend our future! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

Defend the Green Deal from the polluters' lobby!

The Green Deal is under attack! 🚨 Polluters’ lobbyists and right-wing forces want to gut Europe’s most ambitious climate plan. We need a stronger Green Deal—one that protects our planet and promotes a...

action.wemove.eu

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Jul 10

Donald Trump wants to open the spectacular deep Pacific Ocean to drilling and mining. It's a global emergency: resistors in the government say we need to flood the public comment process before it’s too late! action.eko.org/a/trump-atta...

Stop Trump's attack on our oceans!

Donald Trump just announced he’s going to open the Pacific Ocean to deep sea mining!That means his friends will get permits to vacuum up the ocean floor, destroy irreplaceable marine life, and make bi

action.eko.org

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Jun 9

Because the world has changed & is overpopulated. Therefore, there is mass migration from places of poverty to the West & the enviable clash of cultures.

John Walsh @johnoceans101.bsky.social · Jun 3

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

UK Government risks sending nature into freefall

We’re calling for the Government to scrap Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

www.rspb.org.uk