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Ledbury Boxing day hunt - the sooner this elitist minority pursuit is outlawed the better.
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Ledbury Boxing day hunt - the sooner this elitist minority pursuit is outlawed the better.
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Incidentally Dyson is one of the Uk's biggest landowners and presumably his kids will be massively hit by the 'family farms tax'... pray for them
December 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Incidentally Dyson is one of the Uk's biggest landowners and presumably his kids will be massively hit by the 'family farms tax'... pray for them
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In Kenya, environmentalist Truphena Muthoni hugged a palm tree for 72 hours to highlight the loss of native forests — surpassing her own world record.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction. Truphena…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In Kenya, environmentalist Truphena Muthoni hugged a palm tree for 72 hours to highlight the loss of native forests — surpassing her own world record.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
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[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
In France’s Dauphiné Alps, Fabien Quétier leads a Rewilding Europe project as wolves, beavers, and other wildlife return.
Rewilding, once utopian, now feels urgent as droughts and heat rise. For Quétier, the real gamble is doing nothing.
In France’s Dauphiné Alps, Fabien Quétier leads a Rewilding Europe project as wolves, beavers, and other wildlife return.
Rewilding, once utopian, now feels urgent as droughts and heat rise. For Quétier, the real gamble is doing nothing.
France’s largest rewilding project
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. He has spent much of his life in the shadow of the Dauphiné Alps in…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
In France’s Dauphiné Alps, Fabien Quétier leads a Rewilding Europe project as wolves, beavers, and other wildlife return.
Rewilding, once utopian, now feels urgent as droughts and heat rise. For Quétier, the real gamble is doing nothing.
In France’s Dauphiné Alps, Fabien Quétier leads a Rewilding Europe project as wolves, beavers, and other wildlife return.
Rewilding, once utopian, now feels urgent as droughts and heat rise. For Quétier, the real gamble is doing nothing.
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Reform UK Review 2025
Reform UK plans to raise Council Tax, despite campaigning during the local elections on a platform that criticised councils for raising council tax including…
Worcestershire: 10%
Most others: 5%
Reform UK plans to raise Council Tax, despite campaigning during the local elections on a platform that criticised councils for raising council tax including…
Worcestershire: 10%
Most others: 5%
December 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reform UK Review 2025
Reform UK plans to raise Council Tax, despite campaigning during the local elections on a platform that criticised councils for raising council tax including…
Worcestershire: 10%
Most others: 5%
Reform UK plans to raise Council Tax, despite campaigning during the local elections on a platform that criticised councils for raising council tax including…
Worcestershire: 10%
Most others: 5%
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Today, ecologist Matias Hernandez and I found THIS! A gigantic desert hyacinth (Cistanche phelypaea) like a sunbeam in the sand. To see a specimen like this in full bloom is magic💫
December 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today, ecologist Matias Hernandez and I found THIS! A gigantic desert hyacinth (Cistanche phelypaea) like a sunbeam in the sand. To see a specimen like this in full bloom is magic💫
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Oh well, Dyson… you reap what you sow…
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oh well, Dyson… you reap what you sow…
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
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Reform UK Review 2025:
The man no one in Reform UK claimed to know that turned out to be a close friend of Nigel Farage and colleague of Richard Tice was found guilty of 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
Nathan Gill, Leader of Reform UK Wales.
#ReformRussianBribes
The man no one in Reform UK claimed to know that turned out to be a close friend of Nigel Farage and colleague of Richard Tice was found guilty of 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
Nathan Gill, Leader of Reform UK Wales.
#ReformRussianBribes
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reform UK Review 2025:
The man no one in Reform UK claimed to know that turned out to be a close friend of Nigel Farage and colleague of Richard Tice was found guilty of 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
Nathan Gill, Leader of Reform UK Wales.
#ReformRussianBribes
The man no one in Reform UK claimed to know that turned out to be a close friend of Nigel Farage and colleague of Richard Tice was found guilty of 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
Nathan Gill, Leader of Reform UK Wales.
#ReformRussianBribes
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Peru’s high-altitude Polylepis forests are vital to the Andes’ water cycle. In Aquia, a 2022 review found restoration succeeds when communities lead—through participation and formal agreements. Groups like ECOAN and Accion Andina are now scaling that progress across the range.
Project sees long-term success restoring forests in the high Andes: Study
High in the Andes, Polylepis trees, with their stunted gnarled trunks and twisted limbs, cling to steep mountain slopes, boulder fields and sheltered ravines. Growing at altitudes of up to 5,000…
news.mongabay.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Peru’s high-altitude Polylepis forests are vital to the Andes’ water cycle. In Aquia, a 2022 review found restoration succeeds when communities lead—through participation and formal agreements. Groups like ECOAN and Accion Andina are now scaling that progress across the range.
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Reform UK Review 2025:
DOGE is formed.
Head of DOGE, Zia Yusuf stands down because he’s “tired”. Team disbands. Then Richard Tice becomes head.
DOGE finds nothing noteworthy to justify its existence.
DOGE is formed.
Head of DOGE, Zia Yusuf stands down because he’s “tired”. Team disbands. Then Richard Tice becomes head.
DOGE finds nothing noteworthy to justify its existence.
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reform UK Review 2025:
DOGE is formed.
Head of DOGE, Zia Yusuf stands down because he’s “tired”. Team disbands. Then Richard Tice becomes head.
DOGE finds nothing noteworthy to justify its existence.
DOGE is formed.
Head of DOGE, Zia Yusuf stands down because he’s “tired”. Team disbands. Then Richard Tice becomes head.
DOGE finds nothing noteworthy to justify its existence.
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Reform and Tories 'defending cruelty' over support for trail hunting
Reform and Tories 'defending cruelty' over support for trail hunting
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was pictured at a hunt on Friday, as was Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake, despite foxes still often being torn to shreds by dogs at the events
www.mirror.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reform and Tories 'defending cruelty' over support for trail hunting
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British campaigner says tech firms behind bid to deport him from US
British campaigner says tech firms behind bid to deport him from US
British campaigner says tech firms behind bid to deport him from US
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
British campaigner says tech firms behind bid to deport him from US
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Narcotrafficking gangs in coastal Ecuador are now trafficking shark fins alongside cocaine, per Código Vidrio.
Shark fins move through the Galápagos en route to Asia, exploiting a bycatch loophole. This expansion into illegal fishing is driving violence against local fishers.
Shark fins move through the Galápagos en route to Asia, exploiting a bycatch loophole. This expansion into illegal fishing is driving violence against local fishers.
Drug gangs in Ecuador and Peru also involved in shark fin trafficking: Report
Narcotrafficking gangs operating out of Manabí, a coastal province of Ecuador, are also involved in trafficking shark fins alongside their drug operations, according to a recent investigation by…
news.mongabay.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Narcotrafficking gangs in coastal Ecuador are now trafficking shark fins alongside cocaine, per Código Vidrio.
Shark fins move through the Galápagos en route to Asia, exploiting a bycatch loophole. This expansion into illegal fishing is driving violence against local fishers.
Shark fins move through the Galápagos en route to Asia, exploiting a bycatch loophole. This expansion into illegal fishing is driving violence against local fishers.
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Merry Christmas to the majority!
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Reform UK do NOT have the public on side, no matter what they say!
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Reform UK do NOT have the public on side, no matter what they say!
December 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Merry Christmas to the majority!
(expand image for Source and calculation)
Reform UK do NOT have the public on side, no matter what they say!
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Reform UK do NOT have the public on side, no matter what they say!
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BREAKING: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm they hit a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov using British/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
BREAKING: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm they hit a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov using British/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
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Despite its no-deforestation pledge, Royal Golden Eagle's pulp supply chain has caused 5,565 hectare natural forest loss in Indonesian Borneo, according to a new report.
Timber tied to the clearing flowed to an RGE mill in China, raising doubts over FSC certification and financial backing.
Timber tied to the clearing flowed to an RGE mill in China, raising doubts over FSC certification and financial backing.
Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat
JAKARTA — One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation commitment in its supply chain, raising questions about the…
news.mongabay.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Despite its no-deforestation pledge, Royal Golden Eagle's pulp supply chain has caused 5,565 hectare natural forest loss in Indonesian Borneo, according to a new report.
Timber tied to the clearing flowed to an RGE mill in China, raising doubts over FSC certification and financial backing.
Timber tied to the clearing flowed to an RGE mill in China, raising doubts over FSC certification and financial backing.
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Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Ex-UK ambassadors are lobbyists for sanctioned pro-Russia genocide deniers
Labour MP calls for rules to be tightened after Democracy for Sale finds former diplomats paid to lobby for Republika Srpska
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
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🚨 BREAKING - British aircraft are in the air flying north, heading to meet a cargo aircraft from the Arctic set to enter UK airspace at midnight tonight.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-voyager-...
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-voyager-...
RAF Voyager tankers and Typhoon jets scramble for Arctic
RAF Voyager tankers and Typhoon jets have been scrambled to support an inbound cargo aircraft, expected to enter UK airspace precisely at midnight tonight.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🚨 BREAKING - British aircraft are in the air flying north, heading to meet a cargo aircraft from the Arctic set to enter UK airspace at midnight tonight.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-voyager-...
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-voyager-...
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Imran Ahmed is on the list of individuals “sanctioned” by the State Department. He founded the Centre for Countering Digital Hate in the wake of Jo Cox’s murder in 2016. CCDH was sued by Elon Musk over its work. Now Ahmed faces US sanction for it.
There are surely diplomatic implications here.
There are surely diplomatic implications here.
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Imran Ahmed is on the list of individuals “sanctioned” by the State Department. He founded the Centre for Countering Digital Hate in the wake of Jo Cox’s murder in 2016. CCDH was sued by Elon Musk over its work. Now Ahmed faces US sanction for it.
There are surely diplomatic implications here.
There are surely diplomatic implications here.
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Back in October we were joined by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's family and co-author to ensure her story is never forgotten. No matter how hard Trump tries to silence it.
Watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJKPTymLsj8
Watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJKPTymLsj8
Nobody's Girl: Virginia Giuffre's Reckoning for Epstein, Maxwell, & the Billionaire Elite
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Back in October we were joined by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's family and co-author to ensure her story is never forgotten. No matter how hard Trump tries to silence it.
Watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJKPTymLsj8
Watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJKPTymLsj8
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Plans show £60m ‘gap’ in Reform-led Kent council’s budget even with council tax increase
Kent County Council was won by Reform at local elections in May, when their candidates promised to cut council spending and keep taxes low
www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
Kent County Council was won by Reform at local elections in May, when their candidates promised to cut council spending and keep taxes low
www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
£60m ‘gap’ in Reform-led Kent council’s budget even with council tax increase
Kent County Council was won by Reform at local elections in May, when their candidates promised to cut council spending and keep taxes low
www.kentlive.news
December 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Plans show £60m ‘gap’ in Reform-led Kent council’s budget even with council tax increase
Kent County Council was won by Reform at local elections in May, when their candidates promised to cut council spending and keep taxes low
www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
Kent County Council was won by Reform at local elections in May, when their candidates promised to cut council spending and keep taxes low
www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
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A couple of good ones for your block list:
@sidneyroughdiamond.bsky.social
and
@chicagonewsbench.bsky.social
Toxic, abusive pro-Trump/pro-Farage sewers. Do not engage. Just block and share this
@sidneyroughdiamond.bsky.social
and
@chicagonewsbench.bsky.social
Toxic, abusive pro-Trump/pro-Farage sewers. Do not engage. Just block and share this
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A couple of good ones for your block list:
@sidneyroughdiamond.bsky.social
and
@chicagonewsbench.bsky.social
Toxic, abusive pro-Trump/pro-Farage sewers. Do not engage. Just block and share this
@sidneyroughdiamond.bsky.social
and
@chicagonewsbench.bsky.social
Toxic, abusive pro-Trump/pro-Farage sewers. Do not engage. Just block and share this
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"She's been on remand for over a year, her trial's not until April next year and bail keeps getting denied." news.sky.com/story/fears-...
Fears Palestine Action hunger striker will die in prison after 43 days without food
Teuta Hoxha's body is the "only form of resistance she has and that's what she is using against the state", her sister says.
news.sky.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"She's been on remand for over a year, her trial's not until April next year and bail keeps getting denied." news.sky.com/story/fears-...
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"Our stores are understaffed while baristas want more hours."
Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why more than 3,800 baristas are on strike against “the biggest labor law violator in modern history.”
Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why more than 3,800 baristas are on strike against “the biggest labor law violator in modern history.”
Striking Barista on Starbucks' Endgame: “They Don’t Want Working People to Have a Voice"
Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for Starbucks Workers United, explains why more than 3,800 baristas are on strike against “the biggest labor law violator in modern history.”
inthesetimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"Our stores are understaffed while baristas want more hours."
Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why more than 3,800 baristas are on strike against “the biggest labor law violator in modern history.”
Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why more than 3,800 baristas are on strike against “the biggest labor law violator in modern history.”
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Excited to see that the head of the political wing of the illegal bloodsports community (Countryside Alliance) Tim Bonner, is looking for work now that trail hunting has been banned. 🧐
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Excited to see that the head of the political wing of the illegal bloodsports community (Countryside Alliance) Tim Bonner, is looking for work now that trail hunting has been banned. 🧐