
Richard Benwell
@rsbenwell
CEO, Wildlife & Countryside Link, for #wildlife, animal #welfare and #wellbeing. wcl.org.uk @WCL_News. Chair, #Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership.
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BREAKING: Court of Appeal judgment handed down today in our nationally important river case with Pickering Fishery Association against Defra UK and Environment Agency. WE WON (again)! Government's appeal comprehensively dismissed. The ruling sets out exactly what Steve Reed MP needs to do to


1/4: A lot of detail to wade through here - but great to attend a briefing from The Office for Environmental Protection on this report this morning on what looks to be a really thorough report with very strong & clear recommendations that are bang on the money. Significantly that includes the need to ...





Thank you Chris. We could and should be building homes and rebuilding nature at the same time This is a time for The Labour Party MPs to help shape that win-win, rather than accept the damaging rhetoric that it has to be one or the other

It was great to meet Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust yesterday to explore so many exciting areas of collaborative working Meeting James Benwell & Andy Underscore was very special as they’ve both deeply influenced my personal & biodiversity recording journey Brum really is the “centre of the earth”! 😉




The The Wildlife Trusts has set out a series of amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that it wants to see ministers take forward to ‘plug the gaps’ currently in the legislation. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️ endsreport.com/article/191375…


This👇 is how it should be done We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception Great quotes from my colleague David Mooney at #London Wildlife Trust theguardian.com/environment/20…

Octopuses are remarkable (8 legs, 3 hearts, blue-green blood & much more) & proposed farming of them Nueva Pescanova is completely at odds with everything we understand about the species & what we know to be morally right We must END.IT Compassion in World Farming UK


An important day! 22k+ co-signed The Wildlife Trusts open letter to Angela Rayner, concerned #planningbill could harm nature & halt healthy communities. Craig Bennett will take this + a book of comments to Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov in person. Thanks to all co-signers💚 Nature OR Development? Both!


70% of UK land is farmed. If we want nature to recover, this is where it happens. Farmers like James Rebanks are already doing it – farming with wildlife, not against it. But without proper funding, we risk losing it all. Rachel Reeves: increase funding, grow our future.