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Ian Phillips @wildlifeian.bsky.social · 4d

River Lea Walk - Source to Thames in 3 days - Part 1
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Walking the River Lea - Source To Thames - Day 1 Houghton to Hatfield

YouTube video by Ian Phillips

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Lugg Meadow, the UK’s largest remaining Lammas meadow, is under threat from housing plans. A rare habitat, rich in wildlife and tradition, could be irreversibly damaged.

🚫 We’ve objected to the proposal. Now it’s your turn.
👉 Have your say: https://loom.ly/-yNvG6g

A wide meadow filled with bright yellow wildflowers under a blue sky with scattered white clouds, bordered by green trees in the distance. Photo credit: Chris Harris.

A Eurasian curlew standing in a grassy field, showing its long, downward-curved bill and mottled brown plumage. Photo credit: Bahadir Yeniceri

Close-up of a cluster of small white flowers from a narrow-leaved water-dropwort plant, with green blurred foliage in the background. Photo credit: Nahhan.

Close-up of bright yellow buttercup flowers in a meadow, with a soft-focus background of more yellow blooms. Photo credit: Chris Harris.

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 6d

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

Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations?

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

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...

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Aug 30

The excellent panel for The Line We Crossed
19 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 21:30 (Doors open 18:30)
St Paul's Church Hall, 182 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16 7UE

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CPRE London @cprelondon.bsky.social · Aug 27

London's #Parks, #PlayingFields and #GreenBelt are coming under increasing threat. Today, we've launched a new free guide on how to set up and run a successful grassroots campaign to protect #GreenSpaces.
www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/new-gui...
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New guide to protecting green spaces launched

CPRE London is working to enhance, promote and protect London's green spaces. Love London's beautiful green spaces? Find out more and get involved.

www.cprelondon.org.uk

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law.

Join us and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent. @friends_earth 👇 foe.uk/ksojs

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent

Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Aug 24

Films for Action: The Line We Crossed. From the frontlines of climate resistance it traces the quiet unravelling of our protest rights. At St Paul's Church West Hackney 182 Stoke Newington Road, Fri, 19 Sep 2025, Doors open 6:30, Film show and discussion 7 - 9.30
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East London Waterworks Park @elwaterworks.bsky.social · Aug 8

🍃 Come and see the proposed #EastLondonWaterworksPark and hear the latest findings from our #ListeningProject at 'Community Voices' as part of the #MayorsCommunityWeekend, 13–14 Sept! 🎊

🎟️: elwp.info/CommunityVoices

@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk @london.gov.uk @debbieweekesb.bsky.social

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · Aug 20

🧵Our countryside is being ruined.

Nothing works. Our rivers are poisoned. Our green spaces are vanishing. Our wildlife is being wiped out - species by species, tree by tree. All sacrificed to greed, corruption, and neglect.

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 19

The proposal for a secure facility for children at the former Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road has resurfaced.

We support the plan for the site to become @elwaterworks.bsky.social and will oppose the forthcoming planning application for this Metropolitan Open Land #Waterworks #LeeValley

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 16

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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CPRE London @cprelondon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Campaigners in #Enfield have launched a fresh legal challenge to the Council’s decision to construct a private sports facility on top of protected #GreenBelt land in #WhitewebbsPark. See below for more details and links to the CrowdJustice fundraiser👇
www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/whitewe...

Whitewebbs campaigners announce new Judicial Review

CPRE London is working to enhance, promote and protect London's green spaces. Love London's beautiful green spaces? Find out more and get involved.

www.cprelondon.org.uk

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 9

25% funded already! Keep donating and sharing 💚

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 8

Save Whitewebbs Park!

This beautiful park in Enfield is under threat from the bullldozers.

Donate to help fund the Judicial Review of Enfield Council's decision to let Spurs take over this public park: www.crowdjustice.com/case/savewhi...

Save Whitewebbs Park - Fund Our Judicial Review!

Whitewebbs Park, Enfield, is under threat from development by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Join us in protecting this beautifully, naturally rewilded park from destruction. 💚🌱

www.crowdjustice.com

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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · Aug 2

Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 5

Tell Google to look elsewhere! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Aug 2

Latest pollution readings on the Old River Lea. Improvement in all indicators, except nitrogen at the Flood Relief Channel @ldnwaterkeeper.bsky.social @thames21.bsky.social

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 27

Worrying to see that people have been using barbeques at the Waterworks Meadow again.

Waterworks Meadow, dry grass and smoke can be seen from two barbeques, to the left and right

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tell Brazil's President Lula: Stop the bill that would be the end of the Amazon! action.eko.org/a/lula-rejec...

Lula: Reject the Devastation Bill

Brazil’s Congress just passed a bill that would be the death sentence for the Amazon – but President Lula has 14 days left to veto it! The bill, dubbed the “devastation bill”, will significantly weake

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Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · Jul 21

In the absence of the council's sustainability event, @sustainhackney.bsky.social put on their own!

So many great organisations in the borough from @saveleamarshes.bsky.social to @hackneylcc.bsky.social , mentoring young people in sustainable fashion to creating insect corridors & much more ⭐️

Zoë & Reiner in front of the sustainable Hackney banner

Zoë with members of Flourish in diversity, Sustainable Hackney and Voyage Youth in front of a banner and under a tree

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HackneyGreens.org.uk @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social · Jul 9

Sustainable Hackney have two great events coming up!

🎬 Film night on Friday 18th July, screening of The Last Tourist

☀️ Sustainable Sunday on the 20th July, join for workshops, games, and refreshments

Looking forward to seeing you there 💚 @sustainhackney.bsky.social

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 16

We'll be there!

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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · Jul 16

All the groups with stalls/events at our Sustainable Sunday, this sunday 2-5pm at St Paul's Church, 184 Stoke Newington Road, N16. See you there!

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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · Jul 15

Shocking decision. It's clear none of London's parks and green spaces are safe now.

Enfield Dispatch @enfielddispatch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Khan's office approves Spurs plans for Whitewebbs

Campaigners have expressed their disappointment as decision paves way for 16 hectares of parkland to be enclosed by the Premier League club
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Khan's office approves Spurs plans for Whitewebbs

Campaigners have expressed their disappointment as decision paves way for 16 hectares of parkland to be enclosed by the Premier League club

enfielddispatch.co.uk

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