Dominic Ashmole

Make rural payments work for nature Reform rural payments. Restore Scotland’s rivers. Enable coexistence with beavers. Email your Holyrood candidates.

I’ve asked my Scottish Parliament candidates to reform rural payments and restore Scotland’s river catchments — including coexistence with beavers. Add your voice: www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/take-action/...

Another new poll. Scottish Greens on course for best ever result. 2021: 8 MSPs. Today's poll: 16 MSPs. On May 7th vote Scottish Greens.

🚨 NEW POLL!

Poll after poll has the Green vote surging ahead of May's Scottish Parliament election.

Together we can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland.
👉 www.greens.scot/join

🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:

“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Full detail here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food. Countries best placed to
adapt are those that invest in ecosystem protection and restoration...

All countries are exposed to the risks of ecosystem collapse within and beyond their borders. Some will be exposed sooner than others and are likely to act to secure their interests, particularly water and food security.

There is a realistic possibility that some ecosystems (such as coral reefs in South East Asia and boreal forests) start to collapse from 2030, and others (rainforests and mangroves) start to collapse from 2050.

Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).

Cascading risks of ecosystem degradation are likely to include geopolitical instability, economic insecurity, conflict, migration and increased inter-state competition for resources.

Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse.

"Key judgements" from today's UK Government report, "Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security:
A national security assessment"

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

It identifies 6 ecosystems of strategic importance for the UK and explores how their decline could drive cascading global impacts."

Summary: "This assessment is an analysis of how global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse could affect UK national security. It shows how environmental degradation can disrupt food, water, health and supply chains, and trigger wider geopolitical instability.

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

One might cynically suspect that today was "a good day to bury bad news". UK Government quietly published this. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Photo of Scottish Green Party members & supporters with 'Vote Scottish Greens' posters

Amazing turnout despite the dreich weather for @edinburghgreens.bsky.social doorknocking around Leith & Newhaven today.

Lots of folk dissillusioned with governments at Holyrood & Westminster and warm to the positive message of the Greens.

#ActiveGreens
#Leith

Can you help me reach my fundraising goal? [Picture: Dominic Ashmole, smiling, with Green rosette] Help me Run in the Scottish Parliament Election. Chip in to support my election campaign today! Link in bio. Scottish Greens logo.

On 7th May, Scotland elects a new parliament. I’m standing again for the Scottish Greens, as number 3 on the South Scotland list. Please back us. We need cash, and we need volunteers. Let’s elect Laura and Ann, to push for urgent action, to protect what we love.
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💸 On 7th May 2026, Scotland elects a new parliament. Please help us get #SouthScotland @scottishgreens.org candidates Laura Moodie and Ann McGuinness elected! #Holyrood2026
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I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .

@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

Last week, @scottishgreens.org members elected our new co-leaders: @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social and @ross-greer.bsky.social. I wish them - @lornaslater.bsky.social - absolutely all the best with what's next, and I'm very grateful to those of you who backed my campaign. Thank you! 💐
#ProtectWhatWeLove

Scotland bands funding for Israel's arms dealers. A bomb with a Scottish flag is scored out. Scottish Greens.

✅Scotland is to BAN funding for Israel's arms dealers!

Scottish Greens have long fought for this change, alongside @amnestyscotland.bsky.social, @oxfamscotland.bsky.social, and others.

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.

CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.

But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.

Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

Be part of the movement. Greens . Scot / Join An image of Gillian Mackay and Ross Greer.

We're fighting back against the super-rich.

We're demanding change that benefits the working class, tackles the climate crisis, and allows Scotland to choose its own future.

Be part of the movement. 💚

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would

What passed for consensus on climate was always pretty thin. But the right's utter abandonment of the issue puts fossil fuel industry profits ahead of planetary survival.

Scottish and UK Governments must not follow them. New extraction must end, and polluters must pay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cover of book Stopping Climate Change, by Paul Ekins

Graph showing continued increase of annual CO2 emissions since 1960

Prof Paul Ekins: "at 700 ppm, which is a highly possible future CO2 concentration... the median average temperature increase would be 3.4 degrees C, but there is an 11% chance that it would reach a civilisation-ending 6 degrees C."

#ProtectWhatWeLove #ClimateLeadership #ScottishGreens

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…

Join thousands of people who have already signed our petition asking the Government to fund a new Resilience Plan that works with nature and includes public education, infrastructure standards and local funding.

#SAFER

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

STV's Scotland Tonight yesterday covered the @scottishgreens.org co-leader election. I told them that in these dangerous times the Greens need to be the truth-tellers calling out the crisis and helping communities prepare for what's coming.

#ScottishGreens #BackDominic #ProtectWhatWeLove #VoteNow