Briefings on how daily House of Commons’ business impacts my animal and plant constituents. Geographer, lawyer, children's book editor, teacher, mother of four.
Blue Plaques for Nature are migrating northwards! This one spotted in Northumberland, in a village that had swifts last year but none this year.They're coming June 22nd to ask new gov to mandate swift bricks in new builds.
@RNNMarch
@XRLondon
@WriterHannahBT
#MPforNature
On Wed MPs can attend a debate on Thames Water's performance in Oxfordshire thanks to
@LaylaMoran
. Please retweet, ask your MP to attend: the same questions should be asked of every water company everywhere. Nature and people need crystal-clear answers and rivers.
@WindrushWasp
Black Poplars!Found on the margins tween land and water, sequestering CO2 and stabilising soil, unsung heroes of climate change.Holding the plaque another unsung hero:for many years a Thames boatman.Join him 22 Jun
@paulpowlesland
@XRLondon
@WoodlandTrust
Out and about in my constituency, addressing the desperate situation for England's badgers. 31st Jan marked the official end of the cull season - but badgers only have 4 months of respite before the killing begins again. Ask your MP to help
#EndTheCull
@BadgerTrust
#MPforNature
SOS from Natterjack Toads, blue plaque spotted in West Sussex. One of the UK's rarest amphibians,70% of colonies lost in the 20th C. March for the tiny toadlets, the size of your fingernail! 22nd June
@RNNMarch
@ARC_Bytes
@ARGroupsUK
@froglifers
@NikkiNama
Black Poplars!Found on the margins tween land and water, sequestering CO2 and stabilising soil, unsung heroes of climate change.Holding the plaque another unsung hero:for many years a Thames boatman.Join him 22 Jun
@paulpowlesland
@XRLondon
@WoodlandTrust
South Londoners really concerned about the rapid decline in many of our species. We need rapid action, at scale, and we need the new gov to give existing regulators some real 'teeth' against polluting industries.Join us:
@SteveReedMP
@XRLondon
A 'sad countryside silence'. Cuckoos down by nearly 3/4 since the 1960s, now Red-listed.Causes include decline in moths for them to eat and climate-induced mismatch between cuckoo and host breeding times. Worried? Join the nature march 22 June
@_BTO
@BeccyRSPB
@RNNMarch
@XRLondon
A people are judged by how they treat the most vulnerable. This Whorl Snail is one of many threatened by 'white elephant' road projects. Ask your MP to ask Transp Sec
@Mark_J_Harper
Thurs: "Why are we pouring public money into projects counter to Net Zero goals?"
@StopWensumLink
🐌 The Globally Vulnerable Desmoulin’s Whorl Snail (Vertigo moulinsiana) has a shell height up to about 2.6mm
🚗 It's just one of many species threatened by the proposed development of the Norwich Western Link Road
👇
Hi
@michaelgove
@RishiSunak
I've just met the really good type of human: an 80 yr old who has kept a diary for 20 yrs recording the arrival of swallows.'For sure, Tom down the road has one for swifts'.Can YOU find the better type of human within yourself?
@WriterHannahBT
#swifts
Our parliament may have dissolved but the sediments choking our chalk streams remain.Hundreds of heartfelt poems show how much we care about them.Chalk Stream Poet Laureate winners to be announced after the election.
@SarahGreenLD
@wodworm
@lindanewbery
@EmmaBrisdion
@AquiferChalk
Delighted to have spoken to 1000s of families at Natural History Museum last week alongside doctors and scientists about the nature crisis.Children want action: prescriptions for a poorly planet included many requests for gov action. 'Listen to us NOW'
@XRLondon
@merylbatchelder
Retweet at your MPs to attend Tuesday Flooding debate to help people and nature. Alternatively, can they locate their home and constituency on this map of projected 5 feet sea level rises if the world doesn't achieve Net Zero by 2060?
@CharlieJGardner
@SteveReedMP
#MPforNature
Liverpool's most famous birds are Bertie and Bella atop the Liver Building. Liverpudlians also love sparrows and dippers. Looks like they're coming to London 22 June for family-friendly nature event.
@CAWOSBirding
@RSPBLiverpool
@wirralbirdclub
@XRUK_Live
Overheard
'Squirrels aren't red, Dad, they're grey'.
'I think we used to have red ones too.'
'I really want to see a red one'.
Every part of our ecosystem matters.Humans currently making almost everything worse for nature.Join us 22 Jun
@XRFamilies
@PTES
Stellar line up of judges for Chalk Stream Poet Laureate competition: Robert Macfarlane, Linda Newbery and Mark Wormald. Will you enter? Could you be a kingfisher, a wild swimmer, a water beetle? Entries by 31/5. See
@RobGMacfarlane
@lindanewbery
@wodworm
We're all interconnected. If we don't look after the smallest creatures, whole ecosystems come tumbling down. Join us 22nd June and get our rivers cleaned up. Londoners are waking up to the state of the Thames.
@SteveReedMP
@RNNMarch
@XRLondon
@WindrushWasp
Delighted to meet another MP last night - the very real Rosie Holt MP with her new book 'Why We Were Right'. Glad to hear she has a newfound love of lichen, or 'green fungus'.
@RosieisaHolt
The people of Eastbourne want to Restore Nature Now too! Join them 22nd June
The Tope Shark, which can live for up to 50 years, is critically endangered. Harmless to humans, let's live alongside it.
@RNNMarch
@DaniellaNJordan
@OceanaUK
@mcsuk
@XRLondon
Questions in HoC go to Energy Sec today, but Nature is running out of patience. So instead, backed by the Daily Mail no less,
#MPforNature
asks MP for Common Sense this: "How does giving eye-watering public subsidies to Drax to burn trees pass common sense test?"
@biofuelwatch
Water Quality Monitoring debate in HoC Fri with
@RichardFoordLD
. Please retweet to your MP,they should attend. Sewage fungus,EColi, PFAs:anything else? Need accountability and resourcing for river monitoring.Asking for Caddisflies,and all who rely on them for food.
@WindrushWasp
Who cares about our culture and heritage?UNESCO?The Culture and Media Sec? She faces Qs tomorrow:can your MP ask
@lucyfrazermp
"Why is Gov risking losing a 2nd UNESCO heritage site (already lost Liverpool) for a £1.7bn road tunnel that will destroy local nature?"
@SaveStonehenge
Petersham Nurseries, much-loved restaurant and garden centre, getting behind the Blue Plaques for Nature campaign. Local badgers here safe from culling but others are in danger. Join the march 22 June to help badgers
@HMWTBadger
@PetershamN
@XRLondon
The Conservative Government snuck through a vote on roads policy yesterday, minutes before MPs went on Easter recess.
This is how many MPs turned up to debate an important policy 👇🏽
*Launching!* Search for our Chalk Stream Poet Laureate. Could be a poem - or could it be a song?Listen to the names of these streams...Open to all, young and old.🎖️to be won, closing date 31st May. More details at
@SarahSmout2
@cosmosheldrake
@samleesong
What happens when a 200 year old oak tree takes the Secretary of State for Climate and Ecological Breakdown to court?
Lucy Neal shares her experience of staging a play to imagine a future in which a Rights of Nature court case takes place.
Climate targets are going up in smoke. My question tomorrow to Sec of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
@ClaireCoutinho
: When will she commit to extending, and crucially, enforcing the partial ban on peatland and heather moorland burning?
@RaptorPersUK
@guyshrubsole
@CPRE
🚨 NEW: Net Zero Secretary
@ClaireCoutinho
has accepted donations from a climate science denial funder.
Instead of leading the transition to clean energy, she is pushing for new oil and gas while receiving money from climate sceptics.
You couldn't make it up.
Fri 26th, Richard Burgon's Private Member's Bill attempting to stop oily money in politics back again like a revolving door itself. Thankyou
@RichardBurgon
for not giving up. Ask your MP to support him. Shocking explanation below ⬇️
@fossilfreeLDN
@laurensunfl0wer
@MPWatchNetwork
🎥 We’re thrilled to share this incredible reel created by two passionate youth advocates,
@jessicakleczka
and
@joewilkins_wild
, on the
#RightsofNature
movement! 🌿 Their dedication and creativity are truly inspiring.
Exciting to see youth taking over this movement! 🌎
"For 10 deplorable yrs SW Water has been rated red by Env Agency. Red for appalling, red for risky, red for downright dangerous" Tweet your MP to attend Tues debate - even the £12 mill fine will not deter SW Water. All water companies need reform.
@theriverstrust
@SouthWestRivers
Shocking. Banned in EU, this pesticide threatens bees, soils and rivers and Gov’s own scientists say it should be banned. Yes to helping farmers, but no to using a lethal hatchet like this. Even UK sugar manufacturer
@RagusSugars
suggests mulching and organic alternatives
🚨Breaking 🚨
@GOVUK
has approved the use of a banned bee-killing pesticide for the fourth year in a row‼️
This is a:
❌deathblow for wildlife
😡a backward step in evidence-based decision-making
🌱betrayal to farmers who try to produce food sustainably.
Badger emergency. Sunak's u-turn and proposed continuation of unnecessary badger cull is in direct contravention of international law. (Bern Convention Article 8).That's the appeal to your head. Now 👀at this to appeal to your heart. Pls contact your MP
@RobertEFuller
@HMWTBadger
Q for your MP to raise at PMQs tomorrow: British taxpayers and ancient trees unite in outrage at the ongoing £600 million pa subsidies of climate-wrecking tree-burning. "Will he commit to immediately halting subsidies to Drax?"
@biofuelwatch
@axe_drax
#StopBurningTrees
#Drax
is destroying trees worldwide. It’s been shown that some of these are ancient forest. This is a UK national disgrace that we, the people, subsidise it by £600 million every single year. Burning wood is NOT clean energy.
Support the UK world-leading fashion and millinery industry by asking your MP to raise this issue with Defence Sec on Monday. It was World Bear Day last week, so a good time to ask again. One bear killed per hat, problem solved by a 6-yr old:
@SJMillinery
@LondonHatWeek
@PETAUK
We joke about how rarely knowledge of oxbow lakes comes in handy, but a future UK will need more young citizens who understand ecosystems and flood-plain management. Monday:"Can
@GillianKeegan
tell us when the Natural History GCSE will be launched?"
@bphillipsonMP
#MPforNature
WATCH: If you could save our ocean, would you?
New
@CefasGovUK
analysis shows only 46% of UK fishing catch limits have been set at sustainable levels 🐟
We must act now & demand an end to overfishing, before our seas become starved & silent.
@DefraGovUK
#EndOverfishing
🚫
*Chalk Stream Poet Laureate Competition update*
Wonderful poems flowing in. This 7-yr old became a caddisfly. Medal ceremony at House of Commons, judges include award-winning children's author
@lindanewbery
. What are you waiting for?
@VixL
@XrRebel
@PJennings88
Sea Otters’ question for
@ClaireCoutinho
Tues: please ask your MP to ask and keep on asking this “What steps will she take to ensure that wealthy oil and gas companies clear up abandoned pipelines and prevent toxic pollution to people, habitats and animals?”
Abandoned pipelines could release poisons into North Sea, scientists warn.
Researchers say toxic chemicals pose a pollution risk as oil and gas companies are allowed to leave pipelines to rot.
By 2050,the Wellcome Trust predicts resistant infections will be No.1 cause of death globally. Drs are tightly controlled in their prescription of antibiotics.Why can industrialised agriculture use antimicrobials indiscriminately and excessively? Ask your MP to attend Wed debate.
Cambridge is coming! Violets, so common in the 1970s that each child was given a posy for their mother on Mothering Sunday, now much scarcer. Even our sparrows in decline.Join the march this Sat 22 June
@wodworm
@CCF_Tweets
@CamPPFnature
@BonkersBusway
#RightsofNature
win! The Peruvian Court makes history by recognizing the rights of the Marañón River thanks to the tireless efforts of the Kukama Indigenous women!
Let's keep defending our rivers! 🌊✊
4 days left to enter the Chalk Stream Poet Laureate competition . Email chalkstreampoet
@gmail
.com. Lovely to meet artist extraordinaire Jo Minoprio at The River Summit and receive on-the-spot entries from wonderful water protectors. Thanks to
@ClaireZambuni
Which nature book would your MP recommend? Why not tweet to ask them, ready for
#WorldBookDay
debate in HoC on Wed.
#MPforNature
re-discovering a teenage favourite. Watership Down for moles. Moles: beloved by amateur achaeologists for molehill treasure finds!
@Mammal_Society
Ask your MP to attend Wed debate on Gov support for cavity insulation with
@HywelPlaidCymru
. Uninsulated homes (only 29% of houses insulated) = higher CO2 emissions. This = trouble for Drooping Saxifrage. Already only 50m from mountain top, nowhere colder left to go
@BSBIbotany
Calling all Londoners - let's ask our 73 MPs to raise a Q on this to
@Mark_J_Harper
on Thurs. Excessive number of flights are poisoning us and our wildlife. "Will he urgently commit to no further airport expansion in the UK?"
@FlightFreeUK
@DoctorsXr
@The_AEF
"The planes taking off and landing at London’s six airports expose the city’s inhabitants to the equivalent of 3.23m cars’ worth of harmful nitrogen oxides and particulate matter emissions every year."
Insects and baby birds currently suffering from nature being out of synch: Q to MoD on Monday. "Your own committee found you could do much more to measure and reduce your carbon emissions. Will you commit to more tranparency, accountability and targets?"
Short-snouted Seahorses, and Smelt (fish that smell of cucumbers) in our Thames tidal estuary remind Thames Water in Wed MP debate: sewage it regularly pours into the river in Oxfordshire affects them too. More sewage = less oxygen for fish. Ask your MP to attend.
@OfficialZSL
Look at this utterly incredible pink wax cup which I've just received from
@fungi_felted
whose Etsy shop I found serendipitously all because of a Blue Plaque for Nature...
Stag Beetles are cheering for their commuting champion! Legally protected in the UK they are rare outside a few areas, and struggling due to the loss of 'untidy' areas of logs and sticks in our gardens and parks. Let's help them: 22 June London
🟢Will you join Jeff and Ada on the UK's largest nature march ever seen?
🔴June 22 in London
🟣With 150+ nature and climate groups, take a message to politicians that nature can be saved, but only if they take action now
#RestoreNatureNow
🟡More info
Chalk Stream Poet Laureate competition now closed. The wonderful judges will begin sifting through the flood of entries -lyrical, nostalgic, political, funny. So many of us connect our rivers to our childhood, our freedom, our ancestors.
@lindanewbery
@wodworm
@RobGMacfarlane
Sphagnum Moss, Curlew, Golden Plover, Black Darter Dragonfly, Bearberry and Sundew call on you for help. Listen to this astonishing song and ask your MP - attend the Westminster Hall Debate Tuesday, learn about peatlands, vote to protect them.
@natalieben
@_OliviaBlake
@ypp_peat
What an amazing thing to have been a part of: Beautiful film of a beautiful song, shot on location at Fleet Moss with Film on the Brain. Thanks to everyone funding retsoration here.
Does your MP know it’s Deep Day today? Retweet to them to let them know and remind them they are incredibly important custodians of our natural world and we are depending on them
@MPWatchNetwork
@domdyer70
@sarahjolney1
It’s
#DeepDay
! The
#DeepSea
makes up 90% of the marine environment, but just 5% of the ocean is estimated to have been explored. What we know is that the deep sea is critical for the functioning of our planet!
@DeepSeaConserve
Education won't change the causes or consequences of locked in climate change but it can help mitigate it & prepare young people for the future. It is unbelievable that the term 'climate change' still doesn’t appear in the national curriculum before KS4 🙄
Moles facing devastating
#flooding
across the country urge you to Tweet to your MP to ask Energy Sec in HoC tomorrow: "Can she explain how she will attain Net Zero targets, particularly since Gov has ditched vehicle and domestic heating policies?"
Has Education Sec
@GillianKeegan
got that Mon morning feeling? Her turn to face Qs in the HoC.Vital letter from Students for Survival, demanding education system change to meet the challenges of a changing climate.Parents, ask your MP to raise this letter.