‘Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation.’ My latest book is released into the wild on 28th March. Please track down a copy and join in the discussion about this challenging topic. Should we intervene? Should we kill? Are there alternatives?
I feel rough, I have a cold. I want to sleep. But - this has appeared and now I am both poorly and angry! - available to be bought in the uk.
@FerberPainting
what are you thinking?
here you go - have a look at this threat to society and then try and understand why she deserves 4 year prison sentence - for trying to raise awareness about climate change - when rapists and those who kill while driving get far less punishment ...
Yesterday Isabella showed me the Bee & Pyramidal orchids she had found on Oxford roundabout. She saw them first 2 years ago. Wrote to
@OxfordshireCC
asking them to not mow. She was so pleased, she thought they had listened. This morning they mowed.
#bbcspringwatch
#heartbreaking
Very scared
#RescueDog
- we are layering on blankets and love - I was not aware of how damaging
#fireworks
are until we rescued Ogli. Please can it just stop.
@GemmaAnneStyles
I am so hoping you love
#hedgehogs
... I am trying to get the last 4,000 signatures on my hedgehog petition today in time for parliament debate tomorrow - any help massive appreciated -
Well this is an extra treat.
@oxfordtimes
have put amazing Isabella on the front cover. She has done so well at raising awareness about careless mowing. More of the story here -
a plea - my petition needs just over 9,000 signatures to reach a million - and we NEED to get this done this week. PLEASE could you share it with everyone you know - and if you know any 'influencers' ....
People power force company claiming to sell Hedgehog Killer poison to withdraw product from internet ... - if we work together, we can help make the world better.
Really important time of year - let’s avoid the cult of tidiness and let the flowers flourish. Last year Isabella was distraught that ‘her’ orchids were mown. Not happening this year!!
@ChrisGPackham
&
@GeorgeMonbiot
can you help?
@Love_plants
WOW - we have done it - we have got to a quarter of a million wonderful people signing up to get a hedgehog highway built into all new developments ... THANK YOU - and now - 300,000 please!
@hedgehogsociety
My petition has just reached the next milestone, 3/4 million people think that
#hedgehog
highways should be a part of all new housing. If you have not signed and shared, please do - and here is a short thank you video, with 'my' robin!
@hedgehogsociety
A small victory! Ivy Broom Rape is rare and was about to be destroyed by new path construction - I contacted
@OxfordCity
ecologist and I have just seen what they did - they completely protected the rare plant. I am thrilled! Please, if you see something at risk, talk about it.
this is really appalling - a judge has decided to hand out prison sentences for nonviolent protesters who were on a zoom call talking about taking action ... of up to 5 years. Now - consider the rapists and the people who kill while driving who get less
Imagine .... imagine a world in which government worked as hard on climate chage as they work on
#brexit
and internal party politics? The current omnishambles will give future generations cause to hate our pathetic and small minded politicians.
@ExtinctionR
Pollute the rivers, get wrist slap; threaten life on earth, get tax break; block a road, get three years in jail; write a letter, risk 10 years ... get the feeling the priorities are all wrong here ...
@JustStop_Oil
@Feargal_Sharkey
@GeorgeMonbiot
I have taken my eye off the petition for a few days and find that we are now just over 13,000 away from a THIRD of a MILLION - I was really thrilled by the quarter ... so lets do another push - spread the word -
#hedgehog
highways must be built.
So the story with
#orchidqueen
Isabella just keeps blooming - thank you
@LeifBersweden
for sending her a copy of your new book (she was utterly delighted) - she has had support coming in from all over the world! Next year they will not mow the orchids.
19 years ago today I met my mother for the first time since I was 10 days old. Thank you for tracking me down Anne. It is amazing to meet and love so long after parting.
#schoolstrikeforclimate
#oxford
. Already enormous. Maybe someone will pay attention and start to treat the future of our children with the importance of the short term nonsense that fills politics.
How many bankers went to prison when their illegal action and greed broke the economy? And yet campaigners get 16 months for peaceful protest!
@CarolineLucas
@GeorgeMonbiot
how much do you hate wildlife?
#nets
are newly in the news but these spikes have been up for a year or two in Oxford - same idea, keep birds away from limited habitat for our convenience ... maybe we could learn to share?
Polite, persistent campaigning can get results. With
@hedgehogsociety
I have worked to get
@bovishomes
to work with
#hedgehogs
in mind. We know it is not perfect. But it is an important start.
An update that links
#COP26
to
#hedgehogs
and
#bonfires
... take a moment to consider the local and immediate as well as the distant ... take a moment to care for hedgehogs.
Bellis perennis - from the Latin beautiful and everlasting - yet we deride the daisy as a weed! For me it is a flower of innocence - probably the first flower that young children really interact with as they sit on the grass seeing 'heaven in a wild flower'.
There was a man who was good at hitting balls. Now he has retrained as a low rent
@JeremyClarkson
to talk balls. His ecological inarticulacy is extraordinary. Arguing that banning shooting will cause the loss of farmland birds ... why did they flee this industrial landscape?
Insect abundance decline - 80% in 20 years - this is staggering - terrifying - but not surprising. Reveals vital importance of long term studies. We must treat nature with more care.
@Buzz_dont_tweet
@ChrisGPackham
@ExtinctionR
Victory for
#hedgehogs
? It certainly seems like my petition has made a difference ... amazing what 583,000 signatures can do! Have a read of this update - basically, National Planning Policy Framework has been changed to include hedgehog highways!
I have not run a petition before - and am amazed at the power of YOU! in 24 hrs it went form 10,000 to 19,000 people signing up to help
#hedgehogs
- thank you! Now, if you could just let your friends know
@hedgehogsociety
@ChrisGPackham
@Wintersonworld
Just been listening to
@CarolineLucas
on
@BBCr4today
and what a delight to hear the really vital issues we all face getting some airtime.
@TheGreenParty
are the only ones willing to truly address threats to nature. Lovely to hear about swifts and their magical migration.
It is here! I am so excited ... new book out on 10th September, currently cheapest from here - thank you
@graffeg_books
for making this happen. Next book won't be about
#hedgehogs
(probably!)
Something a little cheerier than poisoning
#hedgehogs
- ‘my’ robin paying me a visit … nature is so wonderful - really makes me smile! Anyone else got hand-feeding birds in your garden?
@Natures_Voice
@ChrisGPackham
The precedent has been set - 16 year old arrested for illegally chopping down tree ... so ... now how about all of the other people who have chopped down trees illegally??? Jails are going to be full!!!
#SycamoreGap
Listening to
@BBCr4today
this morning and strong piece about the impact of
#AvianInfluenza
forcing farmed birds to be kept locked up … but heard no mention of pheasants … what is the status of them at the moment? Are they a source of disease?
Now is the time to stop burning. Create piles of leaves and leave them alone. Let
#hedgehogs
build their nests.
#WinterIsComing
- and they could seriously use a hole in the wall!!!
This would not have been as easy if the hospital had been flooded with people needing urgent
#COVID19
care. Simple as that.
#GetVaccinated
- not because the priapic marshmallow clown says you should, but because it means that thousands of people like my son get treated in time.
I want to tell you a story about the importance of
#vaccination
- last Wednesday my boy was woken by pain. We talked about it at 0800, 0818 I called 111, 0930 he was in hospital, 1200 under anaesthetic.
Just heard that
@BorisJohnson
is going to be putting us on a war footing to combat
#CoronaOutbreak
- why can’t he be similarly alarmed about
#ClimateCrisis
and ecosystem collapse? Loss of
#biodiversity
is as threatening as the virus. Just needs a longer view and a bit of bravery.
very exciting - 2 years ago I helped 11 year old Isabella start a campaign to protect the orchids on a small roundabout near her Oxford home. Now
@OxfordCity
have changed their mowing plans. Thank you to
@ChrisGPackham
@GeorgeMonbiot
who helped push this out
Why does the
@BBCr4today
headline have the story about
@michaelgove
being stopped from
#ClimateDebate
and not Boris Johnson refusing to be questioned about the most important issue facing us all?
Come on
#hedgehog
fans - just over 3,000 more needed to crest 300,000 ... then I will be camped on the doorstep of Government waiting for an answer! Let's get hedgehog highways in all new build. A nationwide
#hedgehogstreet
!
@hedgehogsociety
Just 999 more signatures to get to the 3/4 million with my petition - as promoted by
@ChrisGPackham
and
@MeganMcCubbin
on
@SIBirdClub
- please share and sign and share again - there are developers who WILL change when they see how many care for
#hedgehogs
#GhostHedgehogs
- not trending yet ... but give me time! Now we should all be making our own for when we see another road casualty. & please RT this, lots!
It was 28 years ago that I wrote my first ever paid article - a feature on
#hedgehogs
- for
@WildlifeMag
- and here we go again! 10 pages of hedgehoggy goodness - loaded with gorgeous photos. Grab it while you can!!!
#hedgehogstreet
#10thbirthday
You know when there is a theme to your
#Christmas
? Has to be the best tea towel ever! Happy
#Hedgehog
day to you all. If you want to know what present I would like .... a RT for my petition would be great. Nearly half a million!!
outrageous behaviour such as this is only possible if
#hedgehogs
can get into your garden ... and that needs holes! So PLEASE - sign the petition and let
#Hedgehog
-
#Wrestling
commence! video KWACS
@hedgehogsociety
So the 'freedom'
#Oxford
protest was an interesting collection - the
#climate
deniers,
@GretaThunberg
haters, anti-vaxers, 5G terrified. And all apparently because people want cycling and walking to be safer!!
my flabber is quite gasted ... in just 24 hours my petition has increased by 100,000 signatures - now a million seems possible! This is an amazing 'spike' of interest ... by what caused it?
@hedgehogsociety
@UKChange
maybe new book?
the beach that
@WirralCouncil
sprayed with glyphosate does not look like the image they shared - but like this ... why was it done? Because there is a cult of tidiness? Because house prices might fall if wildlife had a chance to thrive? please RT
@ChrisGPackham
@GeorgeMonbiot
Weed spraying on Hoylake Beach is now complete.
The beach can be used as normal but we ask that visitors take note of the signs advising people to exercise caution and refrain from picking vegetation until the end of August.
Over a year ago I got the biggest boost to my ego imaginable. A young girl had chosen to dress up as me for her school’s ‘hero day’. Today I am going to present a
#hedgehog
assembly to her school in London. Not sure who is more excited!
News that the
#hedgehog
is now considered 'Vulnerable to Extinction' is shocking, but not surprising. And it might just be the stimulus needed to create real change. Have a read of this update - - and see what you can do.
Please keep an eye out for hedge-netting - the wonderful girls
@Hedgehogfriend3
have really got people talking about this - here is an update - main message - talk to the developers - ask them to respect nature.
Wish me luck! 3 hernias about to be fixed - kind staff
@OUH_Horton
- we must protect
#NHS
- While I am recovering I won’t be doing as much
#hedgehog
campaigning for a bit so if you could just sign my petition that would be amazing. Thank you.
APPROX HALF of UK wild bird biomass in Aug is represented by non-native gamebirds, released for shooting.
61+ million pheasants & red-legged partridge released, every year.
Regulation is long overdue.
I am sure that this morning you are just gagging to learn more about the taxonomy of
#hedgehogs
... and of the exciting news that two new species have been found in the Philippines ...
I really want the
#hedgehog
petition to get to a quarter of a million - but that is still 34,000 sign ups away ... I am sure you have already signed and shared - but if you could tweet again I would be much obliged -
@DrBrianMay
@ProfBrianCox
@rickygervais