"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom."
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Julien Burcher retweeted
You were warned. You have chosen to do nothing. That choosing is a choice. news.sky.com/story/parliamen…
FFS😞
Death of yet another White-tailed Eagle in southern England linked to rat poison.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
*FUBAR*😳
MI5 and its staff will not face contempt of court proceedings despite the spy agency admitting that its evidence to three courts was a lie, senior judges have ruled bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5y…
The judges said a contempt case would be too complex for the court to manage, meaning it is not in the public interest to proceed.
Julien Burcher retweeted
Thank you Greenpeace 💚
Greenpeace activists create ‘boulder barrier’ in North Sea to deter industrial fishing
Action taken to prevent bottom trawling in the marine protected area and conserve porpoise populations
Greenpeace activists have dropped boulders in the North Sea to snag the dragnets of industrial trawlers fishing in a marine protected area.
Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise dropped the giant stones to form an underwater barrier around the Southern North Sea marine protected area (MPA) – the UK’s most bottom-trawled MPA.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Julien Burcher retweeted
Millions of £ are being spent on subsidies to help Scotland's breeding waders.
New study suggests how to refine timings of mowing/grazing to account of regional growing seasons:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
Paper by Leah Gray et al in @JAppliedEcology
#ornithology
Julien Burcher retweeted
The Trump administration is auctioning off leases for deep-sea mining over a vast area of the Pacific on November 19—over 31 million acres.
It's not only about destroying fragile life on the seabed. Research published in Nature Communications shows how mining waste can disrupt zooplankton food supplies, threatening marine life throughout the food web—from microscopic organisms to great whales.
Selling off huge tracts of ocean for exploitation with a serious risk of untold damage and cascading effects lasting decades or longer is reckless, ignorant and must be opposed.
Julien Burcher retweeted
A flock of five beautiful Shore Larks feeding busily on the seeds of Glasswort (Salicornia) on the South Scrape at Minsmere today, always a welcome visitor to the Suffolk coast in autumn! (2nd November 2026)
@BTO_Suffolk @SuffolkBirdGrp
Julien Burcher retweeted
Heroes at @GreenpeaceUK have dropped boulders in a British marine protected area to put an end to the destructive bottom trawling and dredging and all the rest of it that shouldn’t be allowed there anyway. These are meant to be *protected* areas. What is our government even doing? theguardian.com/environment/…
Julien Burcher retweeted
I really want to live in a country that does not require bereaved parents to do all the work of necessary major reform
Julien Burcher retweeted
This week, I took my work defending Black language speakers in UK criminal courts to the international stage.
As an internationally recognised racial justice barrister, I spoke at the @UNESCO World Forum on racism in The Hague about my cases pioneering the use of racial trauma experts and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) linguists to challenge the criminalisation of Black language.
From the courtroom to the international stage: making the case for language justice. 🏛️
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After nearly an hour of tense stand-off, two Kingfishers fight over territory on the River Kelvin in Glasgow this afternoon. This an adult male and a juvenile. This kind of aggression has been seen here several times in recent weeks. No audio. #birds
*This knowledge helps*👏🤞
So many otherwise trusted sites are posting deadly misinformation about bonfires, and hedgehogs who may be nesting under them.
PLEASE BE CLEAR:
❌Poking a broom or stick under the bonfire will do nothing - even if you actually hit the hiding hedgehog and hurt her, she will NOT run.
Hedgehogs DO NOT have the flight or fight reflex that humans and other animals have. Their response to threat and danger, and even pain, is to curl into a ball and stay put, and wait for the danger to pass.
❌A hiding hedgehog will NOT hiss, or make any sound at all! They are a prey animal, you are a predator - they will NOT alert a predator to their presence, they will stay silent.
❌Lighting the bonfire from one side will NOT WORK. Their response to danger is to STAY PUT AND CURL INTO A PROTECTIVE BALL. They won't come running out. As the heat comes closer and the smoke fills her lungs, a hiding hedgehog will just curl tighter.
Whoever wrote these 'tips' does not understand the nature of a hedgehog.
THEY DO NOT RUN FROM DANGER.
Broadcasting this total nonsense is spreading a false sense of security and is potentially extremely harmful.
The only safe bonfire is one that is built or moved ON THE DAY IT IS LIT.
Moving a bonfire takes less time than you'd think.
There are lots of late-born baby hedgehogs around right now, who would see a bonfire as a safe place to nest.
Regrets won't turn back the clock.
The 'If only' will haunt you for a lifetime.
If you have to have a bonfire, please make sure you do it right.
Julien Burcher retweeted
If I had a € for every time someone told me Wolves are the answer to Wild Boar nos. I'd be rich.
Here are 2 clips from the Tuscan "Parco di San Rossore", the 🇮🇹 Republic's presidential hunting reserve, now a wildlife research centre.
Watch how team boar sees off team wolf. 1/
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An entire life spent in a barren tank just to feed luxury markets.
The science is clear: octopus farming cannot meet animal welfare needs.
It would empty our oceans. And it is not needed to feed the world.
️✍️ Help stop octopus farms: bit.ly/471yPwV
ALT An octopus resting on colorful coral under clear blue water. A bold yellow banner reads "Keep Them Wild" at the top, and a small "END IT" logo in the bottom corner.
Julien Burcher retweeted
It was a force already in governance chaos and mired in scandal while also having its poor investigations into mass deaths revisited by Kent police when this happened. Hope the inquiry has a broad remit….
‘Manipulated in our darkest hours’: Henry Nowak’s family say police misled them
itv.com/news/2026-11-02/mani…
