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BQ Magazine, full of inspiring ways to help and love our UK insects, is having to take a rest. Back numbers are still available on the website.

Kent, UK
Joined March 2021
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Ah, sad news. Rising prices have forced our small but beautiful BQ Magazine to go into hibernation - it might just emerge next spring so this account will keep going🤞. Thanks to all our subscribers and wonderful contributors.
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Was it just me, or did lots of people with northern mums eat parkin on bonfire night?
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Homes England application (MC/26/0436) to build 450 houses on the former Chattenden Barracks near Lodge Hill Kent! This will result in the loss of Nightingales at the Chattenden Woods & Lodge Hill SSSI. Please share update info. change.org/p/protect-nightin…
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Feel awful that I’ve only just realised we have a Minister for Nature @MaryCreagh_. But she seems to think the govt is doing a good job… Can’t help thinking she’s wrong. @curlewcalls
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BREAKING!: Huge news: The Government has quietly published [link below] on its website, without any fanfare, the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on 'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY' that it suppressed last October. It has presumably done this at this point (in the middle of an international crisis) to try to bury the story. <DON'T LET IT BE BURIED> ...this is a huge story. Just consider the report's title, for starters... the report warns of multiple likely ecosystem >collapses< that will have dire implications for our national security, and that require serious strategic adaptation at minimum. The report also sets out how these collapses if they are allowed to occur will significantly increase migration-pressure: "as development gains begin to reverse", a phrase that should make any human shudder in anguish. There is much more... But it doesn't end there: what they have published very much appears to be >only part of a larger piece of work<: there is no detail at all in what they have published on the geo-regional analyses; the connections from those regional analyses to the national security threats consequently facing Britain are not detailed; the "Key Judgements" of the report are not properly explained. It is fairly obvious what has happened here: in response to FOIs, they are trying to slip this report out, presumably because they feared it would otherwise get out anyway; but they have done so in a form that holds back much of the most disturbing content - the content that WE as citizens need to know if we are to know how to protect ourselves, what we are potentially going to have to adapt TO. We must continue to press for the full report to be released... But in the meantime there is much here to digest and reflect on, to put it mildly. Kudos to those who commissioned the report; do READ this version of it (it's only short!), and let's take it from there... Kudos too to those who pursued an (at least partly) successful battle to get the report released, via Freedom of Information requests... >>Please share widely! assets.publishing.service.go…
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The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on 🌍 yet a 🧱is too much of a stretch for Labour to save our swifts.This symbolic 🎥 is for those who care that the existence of swifts is on the line.I hate campaigning but I’ll never give up on the birds.If you care,share🙏
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When you tell your mum you like bumblebees … All items are available on our online shop and support UK bumblebee conservation. Tell your mum. 🐝🎁 bumblebeeconservation.org/gi…
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🚨 Are you a nature lover? 🚨 The government is pushing a planning and infrastructure bill that weakens environmental protections. But what does that actually look like? The species at risk have real faces and names. Lets meet some of them 🧵 (Source: @WCL_News)
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Join us at #WildSummitUK and help shape the future of UK nature 🐝 @perkins58, CEO of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, tells us more about a day dedicated to nature and the action we need to save it 🌱 🎟️ Get your tickets now: ow.ly/o7hb50WmT5K
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It's a fabulous year for foxgloves around my way. #wildflowers #Foxgloves #bees
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🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today this morning, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029z…
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In East Kent we have what Winnie ther Pooh would call a smattering of #uksnow
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A MASSIVE dandelion, foxglove and betony all muscling up ready for spring. Hope a cold snap doesn't get them! #festiveplants @wildflower_hour
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I just donated to help bring broken bile bears home to sanctuary. Will you join me? give.animalsasia.org/fu/p-so…
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This is an extraordinarily good, wide-ranging interview about not JUST insect collapse but the breakdown of society it will lead to. @AaronBastani is a wonderful interlocutor, informed and relaxed. If only @BBCNews did broadcasts like this. #bees #insect #pesticides
An epic-length interview in which I talk at length about insect declines and their solutions, pesticides, rewilding, societal collapse and more with @AaronBastani of @novaramedia youtube.com/watch?v=LR32Ns7z…
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