Hosted by the Woodland Trust🌳 featuring Beth Collier Wild in the City Katy Hawkin Birmingham TreePeople and Dr Mark Johnston, independent urban tree expert, tomorrows webinar examines tree perspectives on history, race and ethnicity and community action. Webinar: urbantreefestival.org/tree-equity-in…

FREE webinar. Monday 13 May 6-7.30pm:
Tree Equity in the UK - action on inequalities in urban tree cover

With speakers Dr Mark Johnston, Beth Collier and Katy Hawkins (Birmingham TreePeople).
Part of the 2024 UrbanTreeFestival

Register here:
urbantreefestival.org/tree-equity-in…

We’re nearing our 17 May deadline for Defra UK to approve a clear up of 27,000 tonnes of landfill waste dumped in ancient woodland & #SSSI , Hoad’s Wood, due to Environment AgencySE inaction.

Get us to 10k signatures! Sign & share 💚🙏 #RescueHoadsWood

👉change.org/rescuehoadswood👈

The Cherry Lane. 12°C and rather windy. Chaffinches.

💚 Nature in the UK is struggling. It needs us to stand up for it.

📢 We're uniting for nature in London on 22 June to demand that politicians #RestoreNatureNow .

👉 Find out more and sign up: restorenaturenow.com

Polluted rivers, lost woodlands, overfished seas…

UK Nature is struggling, & it needs us to stand up for it🥀

Let’s unite for nature in London on 22 June, sending a clear message to all politicians📢 to #RestoreNatureNow

Find out more & sign up👇

restorenaturenow.com

Following the passing of the “Safety of Rwanda” Act by the UK, UN leaders have sounded the alarm on the harmful impact it will have on global responsibility sharing, human rights and refugee protection.

Full statement: unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

Nothing quite like the intense acid green of new beech leaves bathed in spring sunshine BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour Woodland Trust🌳

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

Let’s just take a minute to appreciate the majesty of this stunning Short eared owl captured on a trail cam in the lower Waveney valley last week. One of three still present in the area Suffolk Wildlife Trust North East Reserves SuffolkWildlifeTrust BBC Countryfile The National Lottery Heritage Fund Midlands & East

We've got a banner outside Jarrolds, Norwich! Please share the Fairy Fair to anyone with young children. We held a children's nature workshop in Norwich recently - only two of 36 parents had heard of the Fair! (6%). Help us spread the word. Pls RT. Info: bit.ly/3PpYoz7

Thank you to whoever decided to plant this cherry tree a few decades ago.

Nationalising Thames Water & forcing losses on creditors will deter investment in infrastructure, say lenders.

Err ... they want govt bailout.

Losses are part of capitalism that City pushes. So why squeal?

Let Thames go bust.

Nationalise at low cost.
archive.ph/pMitY

One With Aspen (acrylic on canvas) | 🎨 Shonto Begay (Diné)

Private Collection

The Woodland Trust🌳 is one of the charities supporting Rescue Hoad's Wood 🍃💚🍃 campaign to rectify shocking illegal waste dumping in ancient woodland in Kent

We'd be so grateful if all you wonderful tree lovers out there could support and share our GoFundMe appeal! 🙏🏻
💚🌳💚
#SaveChester #Southend Haringey Tree Protectors
STRAWPlymouth SAVE OUR TREES Chris Packham Monica Feria-Tinta Paul Powlesland gofundme.com/f/save-chester…

How do we conserve species in a matrix of patches? Here I briefly try and explain the Lawton principles whilst at a titchy nature reserve in the middle of Brandon Industrial Estate. Also here:
youtube.com/watch?v=bGLTde…

Forget True Detective. Hello Tree Detective 🕵️‍♂️

We're working with Woodland Trust Scotland to map and restore Scotland's forgotten forests before they disappear forever.

Thanks to Libby Brooks for making a 'wild pine' pilgrimage to find out more.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Paris aims to have 300 “school streets” built by 2026—closures to motor traffic that result in new public amenities.

180 have become permanent car-free spaces—as on Rue Charles Baudelaire—offering a glimpse into a future that prioritizes everyone’s health, safety, and happiness.

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵