This Bill threatens to revoke hundreds of laws that protect wild places and ensures standards for water quality, air pollution and the use of pesticides. This #AttackOnNature must be stopped NOW. 💦🌍🌱
New PM must recognise our environmental protections are not a 'burden'. Let’s make the UK world leaders in the race to the top in terms of environmental sustainability, not in the race to the bottom. #AttackOnNature
To repair our tired soils, restore pollinators and hedgerows, prevent flooding, and improve food security, the gov must support farming in harmony with nature.
A U-turn on this manifesto promise will only send wildlife into faster decline
4/ Ban fracking once and for all
It is simply a lie to suggest that fracking will somehow help reduce fuel bills or long term energy security. We need a PM that will ban it for good, and instead focus on energy efficiency and more renewable energy 💡
We face an urgent nature and climate crisis. But instead of a plan for nature's recovery on land and at sea, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at risk. But what does this mean exactly? (1/12)
Deregulation means removing rules and protections, often characterised as “cutting red tape”. In reality, it means polluters can get away with poisoning our rivers and countryside. (2/12)
It also means ripping up the rules that protect our most important wildlife sites from damage and removing funding that supports farmers to restore wildlife across our landscapes. (3/12)
By lifting the ban on #fracking in England, the Conservative Government has gone against its manifesto commitments. Here’s why 👇🧵 (1/6)
The Conservative Government committed to only explore fracking if science shows categorically that it can be done safely. And the @BritGeoSurvey review does not conclude that fracking is safe. (2/6)
We do not support #fracking in the UK because
a) of the potential for negative environmental impacts
b) it does not reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and
c) it does not help to reduce household bills (3/6)
We do not support #fracking in the UK because of
a) the potential for negative environmental impacts
b) it does not reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and
c) it does not help to reduce household bills (1/4)
The Government’s own advisers stated just yesterday that fracking will do nothing to reduce household energy bills. New development of fracking sites will also lock in expensive fossil fuel-dependent infrastructure for decades (2/4) theccc.org.uk/publication/cc… @theCCCuk@NatInfraCom
The PM has gone against her elected mandate with today's announcement. The Conservative 2019 manifesto pledged a continued moratorium on fracking... ‘We will not support fracking unless the science shows categorically that it can be done safely’. (2/4).
By 2024 more peat will be in bogs not bags! 💚
Today, the UK Government has announced that there will be a TOTAL BAN on the sale of bagged peat compost. We’ve been fighting for this since 1990 and recognise it is an important step in the protection of our peatlands. (1/5)
Your voices have made a difference! In addition to our wonderful supporters (over 63,000 of you!) 95% of the 5,000 respondents, to the UK Government’s consultation, also supported a full retail ban.
This included retailers, growers, extractors and manufacturers. (2/5)
As leaders in peatland restoration, The Wildlife Trusts will still be expecting the UK Government to:
🚢 End importing peat, which transfers emissions and damage to nature to other countries
❌ End the extraction of peat from peatlands in England) (3/5)
The worldwide pandemic of avian flu is having a devastating effect on UK birds – we need to see the Government take a new approach to producing food that farms in harmony with nature instead of harming it. (1/5)
Bird flu is killing huge numbers of wild birds that are already threatened by a range of other problems – from climate change and habitat loss, to overfishing and pollution. (2/5)
Intensive poultry units that house thousands of hens and other domestic birds in barns exacerbates the problem of contagious diseases - which then spread to wild birds. We need to see a new approach. (3/5)
Today we were incredibly proud to take the voices of over 60,000 of our supporters to Downing Street, to demand a better future for wildlife 🙌💚🧵(1/4)
Proposed targets in the Environment Act would mean less nature in England in 20 years' time. That's not good enough. Over 60,000 of you agreed with us and today our youth ambassadors, including the wonderful @BirdgirlUK, took your comments to Downing Street. (2/4)
Matt, aged 19, from @WKWT said: "I'm taking part in this campaign, to help bring forward the voices of those witnessing the impacts of the climate and nature crisis to those in power to help them understand that they are not acting fast enough.” wildlifetrusts.org/less-nature-wi… (3/4)