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#TreeTuesday #VLMTreeOfTheWeek 🧵
Tree No4, planted on land taken from dairy farming by the #VeganLandMovementCIC

Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

Part of the cherry family this pretty tree is sometimes known as "Mother of the Wood" but it's commonly more famous for its berries ... Hubert Berberich (HubiB), via Wikimedia Commons
Flowering as early as late February (flowering from last year's growth & another reason not to cut hedges) & before its leaves are formed, its glorious abundance of creamy blossoms provides vital sustenance for bees after winter.

#Insects #Pollinators #savethebees 🐝🐝 JuliaC2006 from Rochester, UK. via Wikimedia Commons Tawny M
The Blackthorn flowers are hermaphrodite meaning they have male & female parts in each flower. ♂️♀️

That makes this beautiful tree self fertile 🌸🌳 Sally V, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The dried flowers/berries were foraged for natural medicine & the bark for ink, it was also linked to bad luck & witchcraft, probably due to the length of its fierce thorns. It is said that witches were burnt on blackthorn pyres 😱🧙‍♀️🔥

Here is the Sloe Fairy to counter that 🧚‍♀️
Its dense, thorny branches can make impenetrable hedging. The thorns are vicious & provide vital protection for endangered nesting birds such as Thrushes, Nightingales & Turtle Doves. It is also a popular nesting choice of small mammals like the endangered Hazel Dormouse 🐹🐦 hedera.baltica via Wikimedia CommonsBjörn Schulz via Wikimedia Commons
Blackthorn also supports an enormous variety of insects. It attracts moths such as the lackey and the magpie whose caterpillars thrive on the foliage.
🦋🐛🐝🐞🦗🕷️🪳 gailhampshire from Cradley, via Wikimedia CommonsBen Sale from UK, via Wikimedia Commons
The rare Brown and even rarer Black Hairstreak butterflies are dependent on Blackthorn.

Here is a Black Hairstreak laying an egg on Blackthorn 🦋

#Butterflies Charles J. Sharp, via Wikimedia Commons. Black Hairstreak la
The Blackthorn's dark purple, inky-looking berries are enjoyed by Mistle Thrushes, Fieldfares & Blackbirds but of course they are better known as sloes & are eagerly foraged by humans to make #SloeGin🍸Please forage responsibly & remember who needs the berries more #wildlife 🐦🐹 hedera.baltica via Wikimedia CommonsAK-Bino, via Wikimedia Commons
Blackthorn's value to wildlife cannot be overstated.

Please consider joining @VLandMovement & help plant this & other native trees to bring back endangered wildlife on ecologically barren land removed from dairy🌱

#CompassionInAction #Animals #Climate

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Oct 20, 2023
Who does this adorable baby belong to? 😍

S/he is a baby badger known as a cub 🦡

Here are a few facts:

#restorenaturenow #VeganLandMovementCIC
#Badger #Badgerwatch #extinction #wildlife #endspeciesism Rescued Baby badger
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Aug 27, 2023
BREAKING NEWS📢

The #VLMSpeciesCounts2023 has now been compiled.

The land removed from cruel dairy farming is now alive with life & here is a snapshot of some of it😍

Scroll down to see new families now breeding on VLM land & full species spreadsheet.

#VeganLandMovement

🧵 A grid of all of the different species seen. Plants, invertebrates and reptiles.
In July the Vegan Land Movement volunteers carried out species surveys on the 4 plots of land removed from dairy & what we found was breath-taking!

💥 In total, an incredible 40 new animal species were seen & 18 new plant species, which were not recorded at all last year 💥
IMPORTANT NOTE ‼️ We were incredibly careful & carried out this survey with respect & sensitivity.

When we saw the breeding families that are listed, we immediately moved away from them & did not return to where they were seen 🪺🐹

#Wildlife #Species #Biodiversity #Nature


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A dot to dot in dairy farming 🐮 A🧵

1. A cow is inseminated (mostly artificially) and a calf is born

#DitchDairy #VeganLandMovementCIC #Vegan #Wildlife #extinction #climate #ClimateEmergency
2. The calf is taken & either killed within 48 hours, sent to become veal or fattened up for 'beef' or in the case of females to become a future milk production line.
3. Female cows are milked en masse daily and then slaughtered when they can no longer produce. Their lives are short and horrific.
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