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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 20h

A vegan can spare the lives of up to 200 animals /year.
People are invited to go #vegan and join #PETAUK's #WorldVeganMonth challenge this November petauk.org/49s

An easy way to start is to change from cows' milk to a plant-based milk, many sparing cows much cruelty

Take PETA’s World Vegan Month Challenge

Try vegan for 30 days this November – for animals, your health, and the planet.

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 2d

Racing the Clock to Pull a Baby Elephant to Safety | Sheldrick Wildlife youtu.be/75eTnR2yk6Q?... via @YouTube

Lovely video. So brilliant that the Sheldrick staff were able to get the little elephant out of the water trough, back to his distraught mother.

Sheldrick are wonderful

Racing the Clock to Pull a Baby Elephant to Safety | Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

YouTube video by Sheldrick Trust

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 3d

Shame on StubHub International! It’s profiting from the resale of bullfighting tickets – where bulls are stabbed to death for entertainment. Urge it to stop cashing in on cruelty. #StubHubInternationalSupportsCruelty
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Bulls Are Stabbed to Death – Urge StubHub International to Cut Ties

StubHub International is cashing in on cruelty. Bulls are stabbed and slaughtered in bullfights – urge the company to stop selling tickets to these blood-soaked events.

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 3d

Thousands of dead migrating cranes litter cherished European birdwatching spot near Berlin www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... such a severe impact from bird flu hasn't previously been seen in cranes on this migration route, though there was an outbreak among cranes in Hungary two years ago.

Thousands of dead cranes litter cherished European birdwatching spot

Birds have been seen staggering and then collapsing

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

Please sign it! - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 3d

Children using catapults to kill and torture animals before sharing 'sick' images on WhatsApp news.sky.com/story/childr...
Words fail
Sign the petition to UK government against catapults. Make it an offence to carry a catapult in public without lawful defence
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Children using catapults to kill and torture animals before sharing 'sick' images on WhatsApp

A Sky News investigation finds hundreds of members of catapult groups on WhatsApp, where pictures and videos of animals killed or injured with the weapons are shared.

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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 10d

🚨A decisive judgment for wildlife laws🌿

Today’s Supreme Court ruling in C G Fry & Son Ltd v SSCLG confirms that developers must assess environmental impacts of developments that affect protected habitats at all stages of the planning process – not just the start.

🔗 www.wcl.org.uk/decisive-sup...

Decisive Supreme Court judgment upholds essential wildlife laws

Wildlife and Countryside Link has welcomed a Supreme Court judgment upholding the Habitats Regulations

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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 10d

“As well as being the world’s biggest form of animal cruelty, fuelling climate change and killing nature, factory farming wastes food on a colossal scale, undermining global food security.” - Peter Stevenson, our Chief Policy Advisor.

New Report Focusses on Scandal of Food Waste -

Photo by Sam Carden on Unsplash An extra two billion people could be fed every year and land around the size of Mexico would be freed up to grow food for people if we ended the feeding of grain to…

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 12d

Hey all! If you’re outraged by Steve Reed’s u-turn on swift bricks, TELL HIM! Email mailto:[email protected]
Send him the link www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes

Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10d

3. No, local food production, while it might have other virtues, does not translate into lower environmental impact. Food miles are a tiny proportion of overall impact. WHAT you eat is far more important than WHERE it comes from.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10d

4. And what exactly does “local” chicken or “local” pork mean? The local bit is the factory or field through which the feed is channelled. But where does the feed come from? On average, there is more soy (in the UK it’s all imported, mostly from Brazil or the US) in chicken than there is tofu.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10d

6. No, “grass-fed” meat production does not “avoid chemicals”. It still relies on veterinary medicine and large amounts of supplemental feeding. Hill farmers now use heavy applications of NPK. And the ecological opportunity cost is off the scale: vast amounts of land for tiny amounts of food.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10d

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 11d

People are invited, through "My Death, My Decision" to send a quick, easy postcard to one of the Lords, to encourage them to vote for the assisted dying bill.

It's disgraceful that so many people in the UK have horrible deaths, which could be avoided houseoflords.mydeath-mydecision.postbug.app

Back the assisted dying bill

Together, we have brought the Assisted Dying Bill further than ever before. However, it now faces its toughest test. Unless members of the House of Lords hear from the public, it could stall or even f...

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 12d

@dan710ths.bsky.social Thank you, Dan, for the screening of the film, "Food for Thought" in Epsom today. It is so helpful when well known people can make this sort of film, reaching an audience that might otherwise be hard to get to, and for whom more information and encouragement is needed.

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 13d

Petition: Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework

CPRE are asking people to sign this petition, to get it up to 100,000 signatures, so there is a debate in Parliament. Otherwise bits of Green Belt are devalued petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework

We want an urgent change to the ‘grey belt’ definition in the NPPF. We think the grey belt glossary definition [which] could result in the loss of our countryside forever - vital for health and wellbe...

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 13d

Book "Ten Years of Remembering Wildlife", is being published alongside original & altered images of animals including polar bears, cheetahs and pangolins living in, and then scrubbed out of, their natural habitats.
So much wildlife is being decimated www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding

www.theguardian.com

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 15d

Pine martens became locally extinct in Exmoor National Park during the late 19th century, around 1870-1880. They were wiped out due to several factors, including the clearing of woodlands, and persecution by gamekeepers who hunted them for their fur and for preying on poultry.

BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 15d

19 pine martens from Scottish Highlands populations were introduced at secret locations on Exmoor by the Two Moors Pine Marten Project last month.

Each has been fitted with a radio collar so researchers can follow their fortunes in coming months www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'

They are

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 15d

19 pine martens from Scottish Highlands populations were introduced at secret locations on Exmoor by the Two Moors Pine Marten Project last month.

Each has been fitted with a radio collar so researchers can follow their fortunes in coming months www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'

They are

www.bbc.co.uk

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 15d

Really interesting article, on bird migration, following the details of a few birds on their specific journeys. Well worth reading. www.theguardian.com/environment/... By Phoebe Weston, @phoebeweston.bsky.social and others.

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

www.theguardian.com

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 16d

Urge Spain's Prime Minister to end the bloody torture of bulls: petauk.org/bullfighting...
It is beyond belief that any country can allow this horror. What is wrong with people, who go to watch it? How can they have so little understanding or compassion for a living creature.
Vile

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 20d

Decline in wild bees, including bumble bees; in butterflies; in hoverflies, across Europe and the UK.
Largely caused by habitat loss and what we have done for agriculture, producing crops and rearing animals.
What can be done, quickly, to reverse this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Axe Drax @axedrax.bsky.social · Jul 24

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at #Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.

Say NO! Sign and share!
#AxeDrax #StopBurningTrees

actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 21d

Wonderful video. It is so ungainly ! So inelegant! but her technique gets her over the bar. Obviously not an easy thing for an elephant, but a triumph with enough motivation to do it !

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BiodiversityLoss @sarahclayton7777.bsky.social · 22d

A lovely rescue of a young elephant, who had become trapped in a steep sided well. Using a helicopter, @sheldricktrust.bsky.social staff managed to push/pull the baby out and reunite him/her with Mum, who had been kept away safely by helicopter www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates...

Mission Diverted: Baby Elephant Rescue Mid-Flight

On World Animal Day, we're spotlighting an extraordinary rescue that unfolded earlier this week. What began as a mission to treat two arrowed bulls became a race to save a baby elephant trapped in a w...

www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org