We have united to oppose the building of 2000 houses on local farmland fields, which would put a huge strain on the environment (inc an SSSI), roads & services.
Colchester, England
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A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or your garden or community green space could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
ALT Bumblebee on a teasel flower
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🦔One swipe of a garden strimmer left Dodge with a deep wound across his head.💔Our team is treating his injury with a special wound care patch.
🌿Please, always check for wildlife before strimming or mowing, and share Dodge’s story to help protect other hedgehogs!
ALT Hedgehog with a strimmer injury to his head covered with a wound care patch
Come along - it’s your warm up for Christmas! #BarnDance #FamousPotatoes #FundRaiser #Colchester #Essex
If you live in #StJohnsColchester please support this last opportunity to #SaveBullockWood & #StJohnsFields. Email us. Deadline this Sat 10th to add your name to #Reg19Submission
Just a little reminder of the value of ivy to pollinators - especially right now when so much was burnt to a cinder during the summer. #pollinators #ivy #nature
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Tree bark is secretly eating methane.
Scientists discovered that the world’s forests absorb 25–50 million tons of atmospheric methane every year through their bark.
Trees just got 7–12% better for the climate than we thought. Nature’s been quietly saving us this whole time.
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The National Planning Policy Framework is a spectacular failure.
All at once, it ignores communities, fails to build homes we need, and is a labyrinth of empty process that doesn’t protect the environment or uphold decent housing standards.
Scrap the lot and start again.
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A single mature tree can lift a whole bathtub of water from the ground and pump it into the air every day… through pure physics and leaf magic. That’s one tree quietly running its own personal waterfall, cooling the planet, making rain, and giving us free AC.
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Animals are NOT ours to use and abuse EVER!!
The look in the eyes of this poor Donkey says “I can’t take any more of this”. 😢
Hate to see a time when we didn’t get visitors like this to our fields. #CanadaGeese #NorthColchester #StJohnsFields #Wildlife #BullockWoodSSSI
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The C2C TWAO has been granted, with powers to compulsorily purchase land and fell hundreds of mature trees across Madingley Hill and Coton Orchard. They accept the harm is likely permanent, but approved it anyway. gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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🌳 Plot twist: Trees don’t just vacuum CO₂.
Microscopic life living on their bark also quietly sucks up methane — another potent greenhouse gas.
Scientists say this makes forests 7–12% better for the climate than we ever gave them credit for. Nature’s silent overachievers
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"Affordable housing" isn't social-rent housing, it's just slightly less unaffordable.
"Affordable housing" isn't a % requirement of a planning consent thanks to an abstract loophole called "viability".
"Affordable housing" is just a way of whitewashing destruction of planning.
A local authority has approved a developer’s bid to cut its proposed affordable housing contribution in a 1,800-home mixed-use scheme by almost half due to viability challenges in the past 18 months.
planningresource.co.uk/artic…
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Most Important Living Being in the World 🌎
A reminder that even the smallest creatures can hold an entire world together.
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My quote in this: “The plan represents the inexorable outward sprawl of Colchester with no attempt to protect countryside or farmland. Infrastructure is an afterthought, for example at Marks Tey.
“I know councils are under extreme pressure to meet sky high Government targets.
“But in my view the council and others in Essex should stand up to government and say enough is enough, at least unless significant funding is provided to bring empty homes and buildings back into use and to provide infrastructure to support housing targets.”
gazette-news.co.uk/news/2650…
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Trees gossip underground through the “Wood Wide Web”—fungal networks that let them share nutrients, warn of danger, and support their neighbors.
While we’re busy doomscrolling, forests are already running a mutual-aid group older than civilization.
Plant the next node. 🌳
We’re told youths trying to start fires in the countryside is a TikTok craze - it’s actually criminal & called #arson! #countryside #colchester #bullockwoodsssi
