George McGavin @georgecmcgavin Twitter profile

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@georgecmcgavin

2 years

A large trug in the shower catches quite so bit of water for the parched garden.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

9 months

If there's one thing that puts me right off going into a supermarket, it's being greeted by racks of dying plants. This example at Tescos but they all do it. If you can't look after plants and keep them watered don't stock them.

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@georgecmcgavin

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I do a regular walk around our village - road verges, woodland margin and garden edges. It's the 28th May and I have never seen so little insect life. No bumble bees, no hover flies. Just a few aphids and honey bees.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

9 months

I'm sure the artist, Zoldos Marton, will not mind me reposting this superb artwork, which sort of sums it all up..........

John Pemberton

@TeuchterNature

9 months

The horticultural establishment is becoming increasingly dull, repetitive and frankly boring in its repeated misrepresentation of ecology, poor understanding and misuse of terms like rewilding. They are genuinely panicked

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

C'mon @Tesco nobody should be using this stuff and you shouldn't be selling it.

Rewild Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳

@RewildScotland

2 years

No @Tesco just no

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

I almost can't bear to watch #WildIsles because it is so beautiful. We have destroyed so much wilderness and wildlife already. It just makes me very, very sad. I know that if we stop what we're doing and give nature half a chance, it will come back but sadly not in my lifetime.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

We need to broadcast the truth - that we are no longer a green and pleasant land. BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash

BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’

Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Turf it out: is it time to say goodbye to artificial grass?

It’s neat, easy – and a staggering £2bn global market. But as plastic grass takes over our cities, some say that it’s green only in colour

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

A little reminder before the ludicrous festive excesses begin!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

10 months

Ban artificial grass now. It is an ecological abomination and a symptom of our sickness.

Craig Bennett

@CraigBennett3

10 months

"Fibres from artificial grass make up 15% of #plastic pieces found in samples of seawater near Barcelona" Sickening. It. Should. Be. Banned.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

One of the most important interactions on Earth.......

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

6 months

The amount of single use, imported plastic tat used at Halloween, itself a ludicrous American import, is quite horrendous.

John Gibbons

@think_or_swim

6 months

PARENTS: we care deeply about climate & biodiversity loss, what kind of world are we leaving for our kids? ALSO PARENTS: Yaay, let’s cover the bushes in plastic mesh, the kids will love it!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

4 years

Shame on everyone who does this. You don't deserve nice places to walk. If the bin is full take your rubbish away. What is so difficult about this or do you just have no imagination or understanding?

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

anette.aase @fiskeridir .no Dear Ms Aase I cannot find words to expess my revulsion at the killing of Freya the walrus ordered by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. This despicable and unecessary action has brought shame on Norway and will reverberate for a long time.

Hugh Harrop Wildlife

@HughHarrop

2 years

In memory of #Freya - the wandering Walrus that graced us here Shetland last winter. MURDERED today by the Directorate of Fisheries in #Norway because she was perceived as a "continued threat to human safety". Abhorrent and unforgivable on every level.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

These crappy, meaningless displays waste helium, pollute the environment, and kill wildlife.

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@Landi683

1 year

@ChrisGPackham Meanwhile some still think in 2023 it’s absolutely fine to release plastic balloons with a long strand of synthetic ribbon into the air without a care in the world where it may land and which animals it may harm. Really!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

No @marksandspencer this is really not a good idea.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

There's nothing elegant about artificial grass. It is an environmental abomination.

Elegant Lawns

@LawnsElegant

2 years

A few recently completed gardens using our Impress 40mm Artificial Grass

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Do not buy any of it. It is unacceptable and unnecessary.

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@wastefighter

2 years

So much of a garden center still appears to be dedicated to killing stuff that lives in the garden

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

Hey all you litter louts and tossers. LitterCam is coming. Software will be able to match footage of motorists throwing rubbish with their number plate and issue an automatic fine. The first trial will begin soon - bring it on!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

Ask not what the natural world can do for you - ask what you can do for the natural world.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Absolutely dreadful. Protection orders mean nothing. Green belt means nothing. Ancient woodland means nothing, even SSSi means nothing in the face of greed and stupidity. Nothing is safe.

Paul Powlesland

@paulpowlesland

1 year

Update: the police have now surrounded my tree with fencing (kindly provided by the developer they are colluding with today) & are covering it in police ‘crime scene’ tape so the tree is a crime scene. It would be funny if it wasn’t such an abuse of power & waste of resources

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

If I was in charge I would ban disposable barbecues, helium balloon releases and sky lanterns.

Mike Robinson

@MikeRob66

11 months

This sort of thing really grinds my gears !! ….. There’s no excuse for just leaving it there to burn itself out 🤬

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

4 months

And so it goes on...banned insectidie allowed yet again. Why? Because we are stupid enough to think that money is more important than the natural world.

Bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide has emergency approval again

Permission to treat sugar beet seeds with a pesticide that can harm bees is given by the government.

www.bbc.co.uk

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Can any tree fellers/ arborists explain why there seems to be a countrywide spasm of tree felling? Acting before the nesting season? Spending before the end of the tax year? Exploiting loopholes for financial gain? Other reasons?

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Publication Day tomorrow! @welbeckpublish

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

I've just realised that our small bottle of washing-up liquid has survived three prime ministers - great value?

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@georgecmcgavin

1 year

One dirty dog owner discards a bag of shit and before you know it, it's a doggy dirt dump. There is a bin not five metres from this spot, so not only are they disgusting, they are lazy. Just who do they think is going to come along and remove all this filth? #thereisnopoofairy

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

4 months

This is the best use for a golf course there can possibly be!

leanahosea

@leanahosea

4 months

A golf course in Lincolnshire is being restored to a 30 ha wildlife rich coastal wetland by @nationaltrust . Birds, insects, fish, shellfish, wildflowers flourish in replenished wetlands, which lower flood & storm damage locally, clean water, & fix carbon.

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1 year

I am delighted that this documentary (one of my all-time favourites) will be shown again this Wednesday, 24th May, on BBC4 at 7.30pm......

BBC Four - Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor

George McGavin investigates the dramatic life of the oak tree over the four seasons.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Why don't they make kid's stuff in bigger sizes!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

6 months

I am clearly being naive, but I thought fox hunting had been banned, so why is it still happening @DefraGovUK @theresecoffey ?? This situation is beyond a joke, but then so much of the UK's environmental policy is these days ....

East Surrey Hunt Sabs

@SabsEastSurrey

6 months

All this just so they can kill foxes. Unbelievable. #TotalHuntBan 🦊

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

I am so incredibly heartened by all the selfless litter pickers the length and breadth of our land who are doing what they can to clean up after the morons who discard their rubbish in the countryside.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

What an absolute beauty! It must have emerged in the last couple of days........

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@georgecmcgavin

1 year

I'll never see a clean UK waterway in my life again - that's pretty depressing. Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years

Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years

Environment Agency under fire for extending schedule for tackling pollution in rivers, lakes and coastal waters to 2063

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

6 months

I refuse to buy apples that are not British grown. It is completely absurd that people think it's ok to buy apples that have been flown half way round the world...utter madness

Little Green Space 🐝

@LGSpace

6 months

The UK has dug up many of its orchards and now imports 70% of its apples, often from across the world. Planting apple trees in our gardens and communities - and protecting those we have - can cut food miles, soak up CO2, help wildlife, and can help save traditional varieties🍎

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@georgecmcgavin

8 months

Don't flap your arms around or put our lethal traps - all these girls want is a nice sweet drink after a long hard Summer rearing young. The cold weather and coming frosts will kill them soon enough.

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@georgecmcgavin

5 months

The way animals are treated on this show is absolutely appalling. Use any sort of gunge you want - slime, vomit and slurry, but leave living creatures out of it. For this to be the No. 1 ITV show says a lot about the people who make it and the people who watch it.

Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

5 months

The blatant disregard for insects and wildlife in #ImACelebrity is frankly disgusting. This show needs dropping @ITV #ImACeleb

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

10 months

I really dislike the term 'tree-huggers' and those that use it. It is intended to be, and is, dismissive, divisive and demeaning. What we need in parliament are people who put a high value our most precious asset- nature.

Rosie P 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧

@RosieP4

10 months

Erm

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Hey astro-tweets.... Moon and two planets?

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@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Idiots.....

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

I'm going to change to oat 'milk' and try to ditch dairy.

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

2 years

I now get my oat milk delivered by the milk float, in glass bottles. No cows were kicked in producing it. And its environmental impact is MUCH smaller than dairy's.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

The UK used to look a bit like this 50 years ago before we destroyed the countryside.......

Domen Stanič (wild-slovenia.com)

@domen_stanic

2 years

I don't think I've ever witnessed such an abundance of #pollinators all at the same time! Yesterday the wildflower "edges" in the #Trnovo forest were alive with hundreds of Marbled Whites, #Ringlets , #Fritillaries , longhorn #beetles & wild #bees of all sorts! #Slovenia

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

What fresh hell is this?

World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

www.bbc.co.uk

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

Limestone slide at Clifton Suspension Bridge...oh act your age!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Everyone should be very angry that water companies have been allowed to pollute our rivers and beaches while paying themselves and their shareholders vast and totally undeserved sums of our money.

charles watson

@watsonchas

1 year

. @Feargal_Sharkey totally nails it: “We’re paid already to have the sewage system fixed…we’ve paid the regulator to make sure they’re not polluting our rivers…and that hasn’t happened..” Our regulators have failed our rivers

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Complete idiots. This is why dogs should be kept on leads in nature reserves.

Grant Bulloch

@_grantbulloch_

1 year

Can you honestly believe this? It went on for a good minute and they only tried to call the dog off when passers by shouted at them 😡 Though it didn’t stop them filming it. Someone (bigger than me!) went right over and gave them what for. In a nature reserve too 🤷🏻‍♂️ @ELCrangers

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 months

Rules in place to protect the environment? No worries - we'll just change them so we can keep on with business as usual. This brown and stinking land......

Ministers propose scrapping pollution rules to build more homes

The government says removing EU-era pollution restrictions on developments could "unblock" 100,000 new homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

You're sick of it. I'm sick of it. Why aren't we all sick of it? Right answers only @N_landCouncil

Gary Woodburn

@Gary_D_Woodburn

11 months

We're in the middle of a climate and biodiversity emergency. What is the response from @N_landCouncil ? Burn more fossil fuel to destroy more wildflowers. This in Embleton this morning. It's just a non-stop assault on nature. I'm so fucking sick of this shite. 🤬😡

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

The roof of our house is now home to a roost of 65 Pipistrelle bats. We counted them all coming out to forage last night.🦇

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

This is the worst kind of hedge flailing- it's not management it's bloody destruction. Dreadful and unnecessary. How can anyone think this is OK?

linden hawthorne

@Haggewoods

2 years

WTAF. That was a mixed hedge, reduced to a third of its height, full of hazel nuts, haws and sloes. Screams into the void.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Why? Stupidity or what? This should not be happening. This farm must be identified and charges brought. @KentPoliceMaid please take action.

Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone

@URewilding

1 year

Lenham, Kent 17th April 2023 & the countryside echoes to the din of tractor-mounted flails & a chorus of avian distress calls.🐦 @DefraGovUK @NESussexandKent @TonyJuniper @georgecmcgavin @WildJustice_org @Natures_Voice @_BTO @Buzz_dont_tweet @BSBIbotany @BCKentBranch @kent_field

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Why @thurrockcouncil ? We need more wildlife, not less.

Sue belcher

@Suebelcher6

1 year

Thurrock council have destroyed this huge hedgerow it was home to hundreds of sparrows around 60 years old total unnecessary destruction 😢😢shame on you Thurrock council and all the other councils that leave us with concrete jungles and no place for wildlife 😡

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Now appearing in a hedgerow or verge near you.......

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

Another couple of shots of my beautiful stag beetle. I do hope he found a mate!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

@miffythegamer I start the day with some torn cardboard and tepid water. Mid morning I might have a couple of apple pips halved. I skip lunch if I can go out and sniff some pollen grains out of the air. For supper I feast on the contents of the vacuum bag. Ah bedtime.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

We do not need golf courses. We need wild places.

Andrew Weston: Nature, Music & Photography 🦋

@VisitGroatbury

1 year

@paulpowlesland #SaveCoulLinks Loch Fleet SSSI from golf. We should seek knowledge but realise our limitations too. Rumsfeldian epistemology applied to ecology (habitats & species) should educate developers to appreciate the limits of their knowledge & ignorance, & adopt precautionary principle.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Horrendous and revolting.

Harry Frasier

@FrasierHarry

2 years

A veal farm. Each crate houses a calf.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 months

This is the end for these animals - ours will come soon enough.

Aida Greenbury

@AidaGreenbury

8 months

The condition of #orangutans near coal mining areas in East Borneo is deplorable. They are skin and bones, starving after losing their homes and food sources. Economic development is fine, but economic development at the expense of the environment and other living things is not…

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

Not only does @Adnams make great beer, they put up Swift boxes.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

9 months

Absolutely unacceptable. These people are nothing but criminals and if we care about our wildlife we must prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and ban driven grouse shooting forthwith.

Chris Packham

@ChrisGPackham

5 years

What’s bloody glorious about this ? A first year Golden Golden eagle which was seen flying in the Crathie area of Deeside with a trap attached to its leg . The photo was taken last Thursday by a tourist and the bird has not been seen since . Please RT

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 days

It's nice to see this kind of thing...

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@georgecmcgavin

11 months

Kept the grass long except for a path to the swing seat. Nice grasses and wildflowers. As you can see, it's also much more resilient to dry weather..

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

Come on @DailyMirror this is total rubbish. Cuckoo spit, the liquid poop of some sap-sucking bugs, is not harmful to anyone. It tastes kind of soapy if you'd like to give it a try.....to wash your mouths out.

Barry 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 💚

@wonky_eggs

11 months

Away @DailyMirror , this bullshit again?! You did this last year - irresponsibly misleading your readers, and potentially causing them to kill these harmless creatures! We're in a #BiodiversityCrisis , and you're calling for #Ecocide ! Shameful behaviour!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

7 months

Jesus, that is a hell hole!

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@Beccaasauruss

7 months

Farmers of the year, apparently. Brazenly, proudly posing with birds in a state that would (rightly) have the RSPCA knocking on your door if they were kept in your garden. How are you still not seeing it yet? If they're happy to show you this, imagine what they're not showing?

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

I'm seeing this a lot on roadsides even quite far back - why?

Jo Cartmell #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃

@WaterVole

1 year

Do not wag your finger at Brazil's Amazonian Rainforest being destroyed when the UK is uprooting 1000's of trees and 10's of 1000's of hedgerow shrubs. * Trees absorb #carbon * Trees transpire #water * Trees are habitat for #wildlife * Native trees increase #biodiversity

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

I don't want pounds and ounces but I would like honesty, decency and integrity in public office. @BorisJohnson - is this too much to ask?

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@georgecmcgavin

2 years

@HughHarrop @Seasaver @Mammal_Society @Britnatureguide @ChrisGPackham @SaversSea @kasmunro @BdmlrNland @mcsuk @kazcustard @marcrileydj Well this is really unforgivable and shameful. Take a little time to register your view by emailing the Communications Director of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, Anette Aase - as I am just about to do. anette.aase @fiskeridir .no

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Helium filled balloons and sky lanterns are a pointless, dangerous, and wasteful abomination.

Alison Fure

@alison_fure

1 year

Just so you know where your birthday/memorial/valentines lantern tribute ended - with its many thin sharp projecting wires - at the edge of a pond, in a horse field, on a Site of Special Scientific Interest

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 months

I don't think @RishiSunak , @michaelgove and @theresecoffey fully appreciate the strength of public anger at the way the environment is being treated. They will find out soon enough!

Zac Goldsmith

@ZacGoldsmith

8 months

This is damning from an organisation that is measured and polite. They, like so many, have had enough. This government will be punished by millions of people who care very much about the natural environment.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

It is so wasteful of helium as well as a danger to wildlife...

Megan Lock

@MeganRural

2 years

Releasing helium balloons must be banned and people fined, I find at least 3 a month and it's got to stop! They are a danger to wildlife, livestock and creating more plastic litter. PS Balloons don't reach heaven with your message, why not plant a tree in your garden instead!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 months

Disgusting cowardly scum. @spain - this has to stop.

PACMA

@PartidoPACMA

8 months

Vergüenza nacional, @espucol . Este toro estuvo en estado de shock en las fiestas populares de Puzol (Valencia) el pasado 7 de septiembre. Salió del cubículo alterado, enredándose y tropezándose, sin que eso impidiera que se celebrase el evento, donde había además menores de…

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

I had great fun explaining to my grandchildren that Nutella's secret ingredient is orphan orangutan tears.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Fabulous. Engage with other species however you can, and you will find the thought of killing them for food or 'sport' utterly repellent.

Hakan Kapucu

@1hakankapucu

1 year

Can animals speak? Non-verbal communication matters for humans. If so, if this isn't to communicate, then what is this? Sound up

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

I thought all this was a thing of the past. Very sad.

Animal tests for makeup ingredients allowed

The High court dismisses case brought by animal activists against a government change in policy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

This is absolutely ridiculous not to mention embarrassing for all concerned.

Charlotte, The Baroness 💫

@CharlotteEmmaUK

1 year

Is this really necessary? 😳 Look at how @RishiSunak gets escorted through London.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

4 months

Holy shit, when will people understand that ivy does not kill trees? Ivy flowers are a vital source of nectar for insects in the autumn.

Phil Sturgeon 🚴🌍🔥 @philsturgeon.bsky.social

@philsturgeon

4 months

There’s a lot of misconceptions around Ivy. It’s not a parasite, it has its own roots in the soil, and the tree adapts to the weight. You don’t need to cut ivy unless the tree is already dying and could fall on a track, but in that case fell the tree. This is just vandalism

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Yesterday I was asked a question which caught me unprepared. "What would I do to avert the climate and ecology catastrophe if I was completely in charge?" I'll start: Ban peat extraction End driven grouse shooting and restore uplands Ban single use plastics Insulate all homes

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

Yay @sainsburys @SainsburysNews - we can all kill even more bees not to mention other insects - utter fail!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Fan-bloody-tastic

Wild Moors

@wildmoorsuk

1 year

BIG WIN FOR CONSERVATION 🙌 A former grouse moor is to become a sanctuary for birds of prey and other wildlife as part of a multi-million pound buyout by the local community.👇

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

What a vile shower of deeply unpleasant people @BWallaceMP

Lou (not an extremist)

@herbieharry

1 year

@BWallaceMP You’re siding with these thugs? As a government minister who knows hunting is banned? You’re a disgrace.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

I'll be on @BBCBreakfast tomorrow morning at 07.20....too early? Guess what we'll be discussing. Yes, you've got it ... the decline of insects and why it's not a good thing.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Ye Gods, can they do nothing? I am getting so angry about the lack of action. Government to weaken water pollution goals in ‘attack on nature’

Government to weaken water pollution goals in ‘attack on nature’

Exclusive: Despite demands from water campaigners, there will be no overall target for river health

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

If everyone grew an oak tree, the world would be a better place.....

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

10 months

Good lord - what have we become?

GO GREEN

@ECOWARRIORSS

10 months

Imagine cruel people in their nice cosy homes take all the time and effort to put up spikes in Trees so that the little birds looking for shelter from the cold wind rain and heat in Trees as nature intended are met with cruel spikes to hurt them and leave them with no shelter

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

No contest!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

@Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater Hi Sarah Bentley - I've just emptied my bath into a rain butt outside- it took ten trips with a large trug. I shall use the water on the few plant we have that are still alive. What did you do to save water today?

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

It's not difficult....long grass with wildflowers, insects etc. and a mown path from a to b. Cheaper into the bargain.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Utterly pathetic......

Philip Amies

@AmiesPhilip

1 year

Battue pheasant shooting; rearing & release, beaters driving birds over guns at pegs in a series of drives in a day, 600 day bag.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

11 months

I wonder why? Pesticide firms withheld brain toxicity studies from EU regulators, study finds

Pesticide firms withheld brain toxicity studies from EU regulators, study finds

Exclusive: The same studies were submitted to US regulators and some are relevant to safety levels, the researchers say

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 months

Hedges are vital wildlife refuges and corridors in this nature-depleted country. They continue too be cut too hard, too often and at the wrong time of year. It must stop. @DefraGovUK @DefraNature

Danica Priest🍃💚🍃

@DanicaPriest

2 months

This was once a beautiful wildlife habitat full of life and protected species. Now I’m watching it being demolished brutally while my government sits back and does nothing. I’m in tears. I don’t know what to do anymore.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

This is the worse I've ever seen. Each bit of that litter has been thrown from a car by a disgusting lout. Set up cameras to take film and number plates and fine them heavily. For repeat offences make them litter-pick from a mile of verge or take their car away and crush it.

Clean Up Britain

@cleanupbritain

1 year

England’s motorways - this time the M66 - proudly maintained by ⁦ @NationalHways ⁩ Has anyone got pics/footage of anything worse? Will take some beating!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Because they don't give a shit about the natural world and do exactly as they please as they always have done. No penalties will be levied, so why should they change their ways?

Ian Denton

@IanDenton12

1 year

Why is this prime deciduous woodland bird nesting area, on this Dorset Shooting estate, being thinned in early May??? Photos taken today, 9th May, 2023 @bto @Natures_Voiceb @CranborneChase @WildJustice_org @woodlandbirder @ForestryComm @georgecmcgavin @IoloWilliams2 @NearbyWild

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

4 years

Imagine my delight when the barista @youngvictheatre cafe gave me my cafe latte with a pretty fair impression of the female genitalia of Aranaeus marmoreus!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

I love this...the ants will survive anyway.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 months

Like single use plastic, these need to be banned forthwith...

Mark Miodownik

@markmiodownik

8 months

This is our teardown of disposable vape. 2 Million a week going into the environment in UK alone.

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Do not strim or mow dandelions - they are vital to early Spring bees.

Pádraic Fogarty

@whittledaway

1 year

I watched a hungry bumblebee flying around a garden this morning, looking in vain for a meal, bypassing the daffodils. Dandelions are absolutely critical now if these bees are not to starve to death, the least we can do is not mow them!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

1 year

Well blow me down- who'd have thought it! A UK tree provides hundreds of pounds of benefits a year, report finds

A UK tree provides hundreds of pounds of benefits a year, report finds

Exclusive: Trees standing alone and in small groups worth billions to UK, which researchers say justifies spending to protect them

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

8 months

Musk charging for X formerly known as Twitter might be a blessing in disguise. I have been close to leaving several times in the last month of two but stayed my hand because of all the nice bug-botherers and nature nuts out there. If he charges - I'm off!

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

3 years

Bournemouth beach closed after 'large animal' spotted in sea.....What! You mean there is still some large marine life left ! Shock- horror.......

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George McGavin

@georgecmcgavin

2 years

Once again the council, who clearly have so much money they can use some of it to obliterate a nice bank of Green Alkanet and other wild flowers which have been sustaining all manner of bees and other insects. It's truly pathetic. @RBWM @BracknellForest you must do better.

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