🦋 Worse yet, we can’t be certain about the scale of loss.
Most biodiversity data is collected by volunteers, who flock towards charismatic creatures like butterflies and bees. But data for less popular species like spiders and wasps is seriously lacking.
🧺 You’d think such an urgent problem would make people sit up and notice. But in 2010, a survey found most Brits thought “biodiversity” was a washing powder.
This disengagement with nature has experts worried that the nature crisis has become invisible. #EarthDay
📚 The lack of awareness around the collapse in biodiversity is one of many reasons campaigners fought for a Natural History GCSE to be introduced in the UK's schools. That's now coming in 2025.
🐦Build an animal hotel: Making a bug hotel can be as easy as leaving piles of rocks, twigs and rotting wood out. Bird houses and hedgehog houses will also help wildlife.
🦔Make space for nature: Avoid paving over any green space at home, and allow real grass to grow instead of astroturf, giving nature space to breathe and live.
And making gaps in fences creates little hedgehog highways to help the critters get around
📰 In the wake of tragic stabbings in Southport, the UK has seen an alarming rise in racist violence. Communities are coming together to combat this hate.
Want to help? Here are 5 ways you can make a difference. 👇
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🏠 1. Host a Refugee:
Once an asylum seeker is granted refugee status, they are given limited time to find somewhere to live. ⌛️
Organisations like @RefugeesAtHome and @_hopeathome_ connect refugees with hosts, preventing homelessness. Find out more. 👇 bigissue.com/uncategorised/…
✊ 2. Attend Anti-Racism Marches:
Stand Up to Racism (@AntiRacismDay) is running protests on 10 August to say refugees are welcome here. Find out when and where these will be via .
⚠️ If you think you may not be safe at these events, do not attend. standuptoracism.org.uk
From Suella Braverman's sacking to David Cameron's comeback - here's our recap.
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➡️🚪Suella Braverman was gone by 9am, sacked by Rishi Sunak as home secretary after inflammatory comments over pro-Palestine protesters.
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It's just the latest in a series of scandals to engulf the former home secretary - from lying in a legal textbook to describing homelessness as a “lifestyle choice."
Today is #WorldHomelessDay2022. It’s the perfect time to think about how to solve a problem that shouldn’t exist. We already know how to end homelessness. And it can be done. Here’s how:
Housing First is a model that has already had a big impact on street homelessness in Finland 🇫🇮 It’s a simple solution: give people who are homeless a home and the support they need to keep it
Housing First is growing across the UK. But not quickly enough for some. @Crisis_uk chief executive Matt Downie said take up in England has been “far too slow” earlier this year
Anti-homeless architecture can take many forms and be tough to spot but it is a hidden fixture of cities and towns across the world 🌍 bigissue.com/news/housing/a…
Also known as defensive architecture, hostile design or exclusionary design, it is used to tackle social problems “in ways that appear to be benign but has potentially more aggressive impacts,” says expert @qurbanist
The most common type is the humble bench.
They can be designed with uneven surfaces and bars across them that look like arm rests but could really be there to stop people lying down. This has become almost the standard design
Two-time Portrait of Britain winner @MarcDavenant has spent six years travelling around Britain with his camera to capture the reality of homelessness from the people who live with it every day bigissue.com/news/housing/t…
@MarcDavenant On his travels, the photographer met Big Issue vendors like Will Herbert, long-time rough sleepers and people living in filthy, unsafe housing
@MarcDavenant Marc took portraits of people like John, who had spent 25 years on the street.
John told him: "I’ve been attacked in hostels too many times, and threatened with knives. It’s safer on the street in Newcastle"