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Nature - our life support system - is in trouble. But it’s not too late to act. Please sign the #RewildingNation Charter, calling for Scotland to become the world’s first Rewilding Nation - offering hope for nature, climate and people.
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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There are many many many reasons for protecting nature - including the fact that it is amazing! As this stunning boomerang-shaped murmuration - of what are probably knots or sandpipers - shows.
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less 🌳
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A stunning boomerang-shaped display by sandpipers. Nature is amazing - let's do more to protect it and help it recover!
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We think these bat bricks for new builds are a great example of how innovation and creativity can help wildlife!
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So please: if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance. 🐝
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RT if you want more
🌳 Trees
🐝 Bees
🍏 Orchards
🐸 Ponds
🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg
🚄 Sustainable public transport
🐞 Insects
🌊 Clean water
🦊 Wildlife
🦋 Hedgerows
🌻 Wildflowers
♻️ Waste reduction and recycling
🐬 Clean, plastic-free oceans
🚗 Clean air
🌎 #Climateaction
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Nature is amazing! Enjoy this stunning boomerang-shaped murmuration of what are probably knots or sandpipers.
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This is brilliant. We need lots more green spaces boosting biodiversity and benefitting pollinating insects like this inspiring wildflower meadow at @Kings_College, Cambridge. Let’s bring nature back 🐝
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Dear @BBCNews, despite @BBC’s top nature progs, BBC online rarely reports on the nature crisis. You even ignored today’s huge #RestoreNatureNow March (though you ran stories on Taylor Swift & ‘world’s ugliest dog’). Please fix your biodiversity news blind spot, for all our sakes.
An important closing address from Chris. Thank you to everyone who turned out and supported. Today we sent one clear message to all politicians - RESTORE NATURE NOW!!!
@ChrisGPackham | #RestoreNatureNow
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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Please don't turn your lawn into plastic. Plastic grass reduces food & shelter for wildlife such as bees & butterflies; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas. Create a wildlife-friendly space instead. More bit.ly/3wE67P8 🐝
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The many reasons for doing more to protect nature include the simple fact that it's amazing! As this boomerang-shaped display - by what are probably knots or sandpipers - shows.
Royal Institute of Navigation
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, and may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Via @WoodlandTrust
#trees #wellbeing #nature
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This was to be a tweet praising @derbyshiredales for letting a beautiful meadow grow on a steep slope at Matlock's leisure centre. Yesterday at least 8 wildflower species; bumblebees; swifts overhead. Tonight all gone: mowed into lifeless 'neat & tidy'. Sad start to #30DaysWild
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less 🌳
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, and may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Let's look after the trees. Via @WoodlandTrust
#wellbeing #nature #wildlife
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RT if you’d like to see more green spaces boosting biodiversity and benefitting pollinating insects like this inspiring wildflower meadow at @Kings_College, Cambridge. Congratulations to all involved. Let’s bring nature back 🐝
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RT if you would like to see more public spaces transformed into beautiful, nectar-rich havens for bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other pollinators! Photo via @MeadowInGarden 🐝
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Please RT to #HelpTheBees! If you find a grounded and struggling bee, mix sugar with water 30/70 on a spoon to revive it. (Don't give the bee honey as this can spread viruses apparently). Pic via @UlsterWildlife
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Please say no to poisonous slug pellets, pesticides and weedkillers. Hedgehogs hoover up over 100 invertebrates, such as snails, slugs, worms every night! Pic via @WildlifeTrusts
#wildlife #gardening
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Our home town Matlock is under water. This awful #flooding has cost a life, and caused chaos & distress. #Climatechange will make such events more common. So @BorisJohnson, NOW can we start talking about #climatebreakdown in #GeneralElection19 rather than Brexit, Brexit, Brexit?
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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RT if you would like to see more public spaces transformed into beautiful, nectar-rich havens for bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other pollinators! This fantastic pic via @MeadowInGarden 🐝
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Dear councils, please create more allotments! 90,000 people are on UK waiting lists, some likely to wait 40 years. That's huge potential benefits for health, wellbeing, communities, wildlife and biodiversity, and for producing healthy fresh food without packaging and food miles!
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Dear councils, 97% of meadows are gone. So please, this year, when the wildflowers return to the verges and our public spaces, don't poison them or over-mow them. Let them grow as a lifeline for insects like bees, butterflies and hoverflies 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝
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Please don't cut back ivy if tidying your garden! Around this time of year its flowers are a fantastic late season pit-stop for struggling pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths 🐝
#gardening #wildlife #nature
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Dear councils, If you don't overmow or spray roadverges and green corners this year, you'll get wildflowers like foxgloves - a lifeline for pollinating insects like bees. Biodiversity is better than non-essential 'neat & tidy'. Let's bring nature back 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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Dear councils, 97% of meadows are gone. So please, value our wildflowers. If you are lucky enough to have them growing in verges and public spaces, don't poison or over-mow them. Let them grow as a lifeline for bees, butterflies and hoverflies 🐝
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Dear councils, 97% of meadows are gone. So please make a commitment for next year. If you have wildflowers on verges and in public spaces, don't poison them or over-mow them. Let them grow as a lifeline for insects like bees, butterflies and hoverflies 🐝
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In 2018, let's transform many more public spaces into beautiful, nectar-rich havens for bees, butterflies and other pollinators! Pic via @MeadowInGarden 🐝
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Dear councils, many roundabouts could be low-maintenance, colourful wildflower havens rather than over-mown grass deserts, and still be safe for traffic. Pic via @MeadowInGarden
#nature #wellbeing #biodiversity
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Saw our first dandelion of the year today. Please do let these amazing wildflowers grow! They support over 50 species of insect. In the spring, they are a fantastic food source for pollinators like bees, butterflies and hoverflies. No need to mow, and please don't use weedkiller.
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A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 mins between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or in your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
#SaveTheBees
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Our daughter made this film this summer on work experience with @BumblebeeTrust. It'd be fantastic if this gets lots of RTs to help the charity win £100,000 for bees in the #100kcharitygiveaway.
Vote at ow.ly/lSET30mv88F to #SaveTheBees 🐝
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If say 1,000 people give wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year, it'd really help struggling pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats! RT if you're on board for saving time, effort and wildlife by mowing less 🐝🐸🐞
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, and may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Let's look after the trees 🌳 Via @WoodlandTrust
#wellbeing #nature #wildlife
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How many people out there are happy to help bumblebees simply by allowing clover to flower in their gardens or community spaces? 🐝
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We think these bat bricks for new builds are a great example of how innovation and creativity can help wildlife!
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Dear councils,
If left to grow - and cut annually like traditional hay meadows - 1000s of miles of #roadverges could be beautiful wildflower havens! You'll save taxpayers cash too 🐝
More: bit.ly/2snePjw
(Pictured is a verge in Dorset, courtesy of @Love_plants)
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A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝
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Wildlife bridges and nature corridors can create much-needed connectivity to help plants and animals move between fragmented habitats. More of these please! (Photo from Switzerland via @WildlifeTrusts)
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There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So please: if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please RT if you agree 🌳
ALT Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳
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Dear councils, Are you helping restore 30% of nature by 2030? By cutting verges annually like traditional meadows, and not spraying, 1000s miles could become beautiful wildflower havens, with driver visibility prioritised. More bit.ly/2snePjw Pic courtesy @Love_plants
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Please don't replace turf with plastic grass. It:
🐝 Offers no food and shelter to wildlife
🌱 Has a high carbon footprint
⚠️ Wears out and ends up in landfill
🐬 Sheds microplastics which wash into rivers & the sea
💦 Worsens flooding
🙈 Looks rubbish
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Please don't turn your lawn into plastic. Plastic grass reduces food & shelter for wildlife such as bees & butterflies; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas. Create a wildlife-friendly space instead. More bit.ly/3wE67P8 🐝
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Please don't replace turf with plastic grass. It:
🐝 Offers no food and shelter to wildlife
🌱 Has a high carbon footprint - while real grass captures carbon
⚠️ Wears out and ends up in landfill
🐬 Sheds microplastics which wash into rivers & the sea
💦 Worsens flooding
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There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝
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Dear councils, 97% of meadows are gone. So please, this year, when the wildflowers return to the verges and our public spaces, don't poison them or over-mow them. Let them grow as a lifeline for insects like bees, butterflies and hoverflies 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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Dear councils, If you don't overmow or spray roadverges and green corners, you get wildflowers like foxgloves - a lifeline for pollinating insects like bees. Biodiversity is better than non-essential 'neat & tidy'. Let's bring nature back 🐝
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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 in your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
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It's started already: many councils' over-mowing of public grassy areas. Dandelions, celandines, clover - humming with life, lifelines for pollinators - mown down to lifeless, 'tidy' grass deserts. Who wants their council to give nature a chance instead?
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Easy ways to help wildlife in summer:
🌞 Give the birds a drink
🌞 Top up garden ponds
🌞 Make a bee bowl
🌞 Grow nectar-rich plants
🌞 Don't mow wildflowers
🌞 Grow grass long
🌞 Say no to pesticides and weedkiller
🌞 More: bit.ly/2KQesqp
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Dear councils, Please reduce needless over-mowing of our public spaces, green corners and roadverges, and avoid weedkillers and pesticides! Less work, fossil fuel use, cost. More wildlife, wildflowers, insects. 🐝
#minimeadows #climateaction #biodiversity
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Please resolve to let the dandelions grow this spring! Pollinators including bees, butterflies and hoverflies love them, and they also support more than 50 insect species. Here are some from our garden last year 🐝
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So please: if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
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With warmer weather forecast, help wildlife by providing water for drinking and bathing. Bees need to drink too - many natural water sources are too deep or fast-flowing for insects, so a bee bowl could be a real lifeline.
More ideas: bit.ly/42TSmM0
#nature #pollinators
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So please: if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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Please don't cut back ivy if tidying your garden! Around this time of year its flowers are a brilliant late season pit-stop for pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths. Here’s ours this week 🐝
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Can we have a shout out for hoverflies? These unsung heroes may not be as flamboyant as butterflies or as cute as bumblebees, but they’re important pollinators that also help control pests like aphids. How to help them: bit.ly/4ae2zG1
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We think these bat bricks for new builds are a great example of how innovation and creativity can help wildlife!
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, and may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. More on why trees are awesome: bit.ly/3s2WVA9
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The relentless over-mowing of green public spaces is underway again. Dandelions, celandines, clover - humming with life, lifelines for pollinators - mown into ‘neat & tidy’ deserts. Who wants their council to #SayNoToTheMow and restore nature instead? More bit.ly/3e6t4lt
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Bumblebees can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But 97% of our wiłdflower meadows are gone. So every time we plant a nectar-rich flower, it could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
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A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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Dear councils, many roundabouts could be biodiversity-boosting wildflower havens rather than closely-mown grass deserts, and still be safe for traffic! Pic via @MeadowInGarden
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A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 mins between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or in your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
#SaveTheBees
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10 flowers to grow in your garden to help bees and other pollinating insects
🐝 Scabious
🐝 Lavender
🐝 Snowdrops
🐝 Buddleia
🐝 Red clover
🐝 Sweet peas
🐝 Crocus
🐝 Apple tree
🐝 Cosmos
🐝 Teasels
🐝 More: bit.ly/2ldAkDO
@BBCSpringwatch
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Hedgehogs have suffered big declines in the UK. Because they have huge territories, one way to help them out is by providing a hedgehog fence hole!
#LoveWildlife #wildlife
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A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝
Little Green Space 🦋
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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 please plant at least one nectar-rich flower in your garden or community this year. Your one flower could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
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Dear councils, could we see more central reservations and road islands looking like this in 2019 please? Pic via @Buzz_dont_tweet & @MeadowInGarden
#biodiversity #GiveNatureAChance
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So please: if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
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Please help bees, butterflies and birds by reducing the mowing this year! By leaving a patch of grass in your garden to flower you'll be helping wildlife while reducing effort, cost and carbon emissions. Cartoon courtesy @sepponet
#Nature #ClimateAction #biodiversity
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Worried about declines in insects like bees and butterflies? Ways to help in your garden:
🐝 Don't over-tidy
🐝 Let grass grow long
🐝 Let dandelions grow
🐝 Plant lavender and sedums
🐝 Leave some nettles
🐝 Add a wood pile
🐝 More bit.ly/2FYQUhp
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Tidying the garden? Please don't cut back the ivy - in a month or so, its flowers will be providing a vital late season pit stop for pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths!
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Not all heroes wear capes. Stay home, stay safe and #FlattenTheCurve. And support @NHSMillion 💚
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Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
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We think these bat bricks for new builds are a great example of how innovation and creativity can help wildlife!
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Please say no to poisonous slug pellets, pesticides and weedkillers. Hedgehogs hoover up over 100 invertebrates every night!
#wildlife #gardening #nature
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Across the UK at this time of year, you'll see White clover being mown away by councils on roadverges and in community spaces. But this little plant is a fantastic food source for bumblebees and other wild pollinators. Let's let it grow!
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The springtime hacking of hedgerows & trees to keep nature ‘neat & tidy’ (often with ugly results) will be on us anytime now. Please councils, landowners & others, think twice before decimating birds’ nesting habitat & vital trees: is it essential or can you #GiveNatureAChance?
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There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝
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A stunning boomerang-shaped display by sandpipers. Nature is amazing - let's do more to protect it and help it recover!
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These mesmerising sandpipers almost vanish at times, as well as forming a boomerang shape. RT if you agree that nature is amazing and needs better protection!
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