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Helen Withers

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Opera singer by profession and nature defender at heart.

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Have people watched the documentary Poison Water? It's well worth a watch. The incident took place over forty years ago and the people of Camelford deserve a full public enquiry.

02.12.2025 21:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peekaboo πŸ‘€

Look who’s popped up on camera at our Oa reserve… a juvenile Corncrake!

This joyful glimpse is the reserve’s first ever recorded evidence of breeding success for this secretive species! An incredibly exciting moment for the team.

πŸ“½οΈ @naturenortheast.bsky.social

21.08.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 347 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Sheffield company launches eco-bricks that 'absorb carbon' - BBC News The bricks - by start-up company earth4Earth - are being used in pilot projects across the city.

Given Labour's eagerness to build, build, build, should this not be a massive story??? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

29.07.2025 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Go WILD for hedgehogsπŸƒπŸ¦”Help hedgehogs by getting involved in Hedgehog Street’s #GoWildforhedgehogs challenge!

Simply allow a patch of garden to grow wild and undisturbed, and over the next year Hedgehog Street will give you seasonal tips and advice for improving it for hedgehogs and other wildlife.

16.07.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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

04.07.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Precisely!

28.06.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 255 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
A woman in a white shirt sat in a bookshop at a table of books.

A woman in a white shirt sat in a bookshop at a table of books.

Ensconced in the lovely @oundlebookshop.bsky.social with lots of copies of #LandBeneaththeWaves and my crochet. Do come along, say hello and get your books signed! β˜ΊοΈπŸ’šπŸ“–

#oundle @oundlefestoflit.bsky.social #booksky #indiebooks

14.06.2025 09:17 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have to say, Springwatch has been a wonderful antidote to modern life. It truly represents what I pay my licence fee for. I'm going to miss it. If only it were a year round show. πŸ’š #springwatch #nature

13.06.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've just nabbed it. I'll say Hi to you later.

12.06.2025 13:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, Nic. Is your Hitchin launch invitation only?

12.06.2025 12:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The chemicals in your drinking water that are harming your health (and how to avoid them) PFAS or β€˜forever chemicals’ are ubiquitous and have been linked to cancer and liver damage. Here’s how to reduce your exposure

Worrying stuff. www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

11.06.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Major retailer pledges to refund all tents bought this summer Tents bought throughout festival season can be returned after use

πŸ‘πŸ» πŸ‘πŸ» πŸ‘πŸ» www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

11.06.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The dictator continues his work.

11.06.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

11.06.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Illustration of a natural landscape collage, with rolling hills, trees, clouds in the sky and wildlife including an otter, owl, swift and butterflies. Hikers can also be seen, as can the ocean on the horizon

Illustration of a natural landscape collage, with rolling hills, trees, clouds in the sky and wildlife including an otter, owl, swift and butterflies. Hikers can also be seen, as can the ocean on the horizon

We’re excited to announce the first ever #WildSummitUK
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We’re excited to bring campaigners, politicians & communities together in Bristol on 11 September for a day devoted to action for nature🌱

Join us to help make to make real change happen for natureπŸ’ͺ

www.wcl.org.uk/wildsummituk...

09.06.2025 08:14 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Dave Goulson – Author Talk

I'll be talking about the wonderful world of insects, and how we can help them by turning our gardens into pollinator paradise. All welcome! Tunbridge Wells, 5 July, 2pm.
theamelia.co.uk/whats-on/dav...

11.06.2025 08:32 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On the left side, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. On the right side, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May.

The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On the left side, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. On the right side, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May.

#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼

The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.

01.05.2025 07:59 πŸ‘ 614 πŸ” 198 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 16
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iRecord Butterflies iRecord Butterflies is a free app that will guide you through the identification of any butterfly that you see in the UK and allow you to add your sighting to millions of other valuable records that i...

As a warm spell approaches a little reminder to please let us know what you have seen. A post here is good and lets other people know what's where.
But also please submit the sightings to our recorders. iRecord Butterflies is excellent
butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/rec...

27.04.2025 07:21 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Can Make an Impact. Stop McDonald's at Tice's Meadow

chng.it/DPXHWx9nYX

16.04.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below:
pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social

11.04.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 316 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 13

Great weather for it, Joel. I must pop over again and see the transformation.

10.04.2025 09:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RHS delays promise to make shows peat-free in face of β€˜legislative black hole’ The horticultural charity says it β€˜can’t steer this ship alone’ in the shift to peat-free gardening.

Spineless decision by RHS. They can't singlehandedly ban peat, but they can ban it for use at their flower show. www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/nationa...

31.03.2025 07:14 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 7

Just when you think the situation can't get any worse.

30.03.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Food sold in plastic pouches & clingy wraps could be tainted by yet more endocrine-disrupting chemicals like #PFAS (and others like BPA), heavily used in plastic food packaging and can leach into food.. linked to hormonal imbalances, reproductive issues & diseases like metabolic disorders & cancer.

28.03.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's a gorgeous specimen, Nic.

29.03.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hold your noses and check out the Watershed Pollution Map to see where untreated poop was dumped into rivers, lakes and seas near you, for a record 3.61 million hours last year...

watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-ou...

27.03.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 8

So, everywhere. Which comes as no surprise.

28.03.2025 16:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pictures from Bentham, North Yorkshire

Pictures from Bentham, North Yorkshire

The pretty town of Bentham, North Yorkshire, described as the UK's most PFAS polluted town: I visited to talk to those impacted by forever chemical pollution from a firefighting foam plant, at the highest levels ever detected in the UK, for BBC Rare Earth:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

22.03.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The world has gone mad.

12.03.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in BelΓ©m is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

This is an early April fools, right? BBC News - Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
www.bbc.com/news/article...

12.03.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0