The Netherlands is the latest country to face legal action for allowing destructive fishing in areas designated for nature protection
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
Ireland's national trust takes legal action over latest government plan to cut agricultural water pollution #nitrates #bluegreenalgae #AnTaisce 🦠
@antaisce.bsky.social @swanireland.ie @foeireland.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social
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Since 1990, I’ve been looking at Ireland’s water quality horrors and the EU’s casual acceptance of it. Until Ireland accepts that its ag practices are leading to its ecological death and that Sitka spruce farms are a failed experiment, nothing will change. I rarely see birds or mammals in Donegal.
It's hard to believe that just 15 years ago, this was virtually empty space, with none of the native trees, epiphytic mosses, yellow flag, reed buntings, bullfinches, or other life now present, and increasing in diversity year on year.
Rewilding is how we reverse nature loss in Ireland.
🔴 NEW 🔴
Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby
Industry meetings w/ EU officials tripled ahead of release of EU Commission strategy doc pledging to 'review and revise' the Water Framework Directive
📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social w/ @euobserver.com
www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...
European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change calls for scrapping harmful CAP subsidies, a caron price in farming, and recycling the money back into helping farmers adapt and increase resilience.
No brainer, but don't expect any short term action. The farm lobby wants the disaster.
Europe’s water protection is under attack ⚔️🌊
Behind calls to “simplify” the #WaterFrameworkDirective lies a Big Mining agenda to shred these vital protections - for profit 🤯
At a time of water scarcity and pollution, EU must defend our rivers, groundwater & drinking water 💧✊
#ProtectOurWater
Current EU policies are falling short 👎
Right now, we have a real window of opportunity.
Upcoming decisions could drive a fair transition to a more resilient, nature‑positive system that protects our health and farmers’ livelihoods 🙌
Report 👉 tinyurl.com/26vu6ysa
#ClimateActionNow
📣 Dearest Gentle Readers,
The season is upon us, but not everyone has been invited to the ball!
With captains of industry treated to red carpet, the rest of society has been left out.
270 organisations invite Von der Leyen to the #AntwerpCounterSummit: bit.ly/AntwerpCount...
👉Will she accept?!
📣 The pollution industry got a red carpet in Antwerp; civil society got a closed door.
👉 We have now invited Von der Leyen to the #AntwerpCounterSummit.
Will @vonderleyen accept the invitation of +270 civil society orgs?
Declaration: bit.ly/AntwerpCount...
(Your organisation can still sign it!)
Organisations can sign the Declaration here: friendsoftheearth.eu/sign-the-dec...
The Declaration calls on the EU to put people, planet, and democracy first, rejecting corporate-led deregulation.
We call for:
✅Re-vitalisation of European democracy
✅Rules that protect people and planet
✅No blank cheques for polluting industries
✅Law-making guided by science and civil society
The season is upon us, but it appears not everyone has been invited to the ball.
While industry leaders enjoyed red carpets in Antwerp, 270+ civil society groups are demanding their own ball ahead of #EUCO.
Will @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu accept the dance? 🦢
#AntwerpCounterSummit #RulesToProtect
Weka turns five today! Our noisiest, most boisterous girl – who was once a silent, emaciated calf spotted from the air during the 2022 drought. Our pilot's sighting saved her life.
She's since graduated to Ithumba, where she continues to keep everyone on their toes.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to reporters after attending a closed door briefing with Senate Armed Service Committee at the U.S. Capitol Building on March 10, 2026 in Washington, DC. The committee held the briefing to hear from officials on "Operation Epic Fury" and the ongoing U.S.-Israel conflict against Iran. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Elizabeth Warren: “For the Trump administration to say over & over, there's no money for healthcare – there's no money for childcare – there's no time to pay attention to how families are paying more – but there's a billion dollars a day to go to the Middle East & drop bombs on Iran”
Support @generationsfutures.fr call to the European Parliament: EU rules for health protection – no toxics in our cosmetics!
🚫 No deregulation of carcinogens, mutagens, or reprotoxic substances in cosmetics
🚫 No loopholes. No delays
🗣️ Make your voice heard: shaketonpolitique.org/en/appeals/o...
When a US missile killed 160 children, president shits-a-lot claimed Iran stole the missile and fired at the school. When asked why he was the only one making this claim, he said "because I just don't know enough about it".
Go ahead. See if you can make this make sense.
(Source: RB Hubbell)
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has begun evaluating the state’s Wolf-Livestock Compensation Program as gray wolves continue returning to CA.
During the workshop, livestock producers and wolf conservation groups helped outline the evaluation process.
🔗: https://bit.ly/4ruqkSF
Water quality in Ireland is worsening:
... provisions in the programme have 'repeatedly failed to protect water quality. It is therefore profoundly unscientific & shortsighted to just continue those provisions in hope of achieving a better outcome this time round'
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Trump’s press conference was all lies, contractions, and ambiguous bullshit.
There's an interesting sleight in this article: "farmers" are worried about being pushed "off our land" (note "our) by automation. But the vast majority of people who actually work on American farms aren't the landowners. They're a highly exploited, highly seasonal, grossly underpaid cohort.
Yet they keep voting for politicians up to their neck in corporate greed
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
An Taisce seeks judicial review of 6th Nitrates Action Programme
"we cannot ignore the necessity to protect 2 of the essential ingredients for flourishing rural life & agriculture - clean water & uncontaminated soil" "which must be preserved for future generations"
www.antaisce.org/news/water-q...
“You just suggested that Iran got its hands on a U.S. Tomahawk and BOMBED ITS OWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on the first day of the war.
You are the only person in your government saying this.
WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY PERSON SAYING THIS?”
PEDOrump’s answer:
“Because I just don’t know enough about it.” 😲🙄🤬
Democratic leaders refused to commit to blocking war funding and supported the assassination of Iran’s leader.
No matter what…
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
No matter what.
This experiment of putting the worst people in charge of government should be over.
