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Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Scientists worldwide: We invite you to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. 35 years after the first warning, we now declare a planetary emergency. If you are a scientist, please read, sign, and share. Go to this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Yes we need trees but they absolutely have to be cared for 👇
More than 800,000 new trees have been planted across Surrey over the past five years, exceeding the council's own target, according to a report.
Surrey County Council's report found 116,359 trees had been planted in the 2025/26 financial year alone.
It said the total planted between 2021 and 2026 was around 885,000, surpassing its initial target of 600,000.
However, Elmbridge Borough Council recently passed a motion calling for the future East Surrey council to update its tree strategy to consider survival rates.
It said many trees planted in the borough were dying within a year as a result of not receiving the right aftercare.
"There is little point celebrating the number of trees we plant if a significant number of them are dead a year later," said councillor Katerina Lusk
More here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4g…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
The only answer to the surging overpopulation of deer in Britain is wolves.
In northern Spain, just ~0.3% of deer have TB.
In southern Spain it’s ~30%.
The difference is that the north still has wolves.
Wolves sniff out unwell deer and eat them. It’s so blindingly obvious.
I have been harping on about the repercussions of our deer over population for years, largely in the context of hedgerow and woodland damage. Now it's as a TB vector.
It's now time for serious action...and no, the solution isn't wolves.
fwi.co.uk/news/vets-call-for…
Liverpool fans: your “Liver bird” would like a word about seagrass. 🔴🌱
Watch this cormorant dive into an underwater meadow and emerge with a scorpionfish. Good movement. Clinical finishing. No VAR reprieve for the fish.
For me, footage like this captures why seagrass matters so much. These meadows provide places for fish to live and feed, supporting food webs that connect life beneath the surface with the birds we see above it.
Those connections are central to what we’re working to protect and rebuild at Project Seagrass. Successful conservation and restoration mean protecting and recovering living, functioning ecosystems, with the science and long-term care needed to help them thrive in a changing ocean.
So, if you’re fond of a certain bird on a red shirt, perhaps there’s an underwater meadow worth getting behind too.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/Ubasxcxwsys
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Would hide here again.”
Seagrass loss in Cairns Harbour was linked to an 84% fall in fish abundance. Fish numbers recovered, but the species mix changed.
Restoration success is about the life a meadow supports too.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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To restore seagrass, look upstream.
Sewage and farm runoff fuel algae, blocking the light seagrass needs. Planting alone won’t fix polluted water.
Keep the pressure on governments. Marine conservation needs action on land.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/changing…
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Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Please, raise your voice! I already did.
We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Your endorsement helps show public concern about our planet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: A ZERO catch limit for Northern Shelf cod has just been advised for 2027 by @ICESmarine
Today, Oceana UK & 29 leading marine scientists are urging UK Gov put the science at the heart of their negotiations on 2027 fishing limits 🎣
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Your endorsement helps show public concern about our planet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Love seahorses? Then you need to love seagrass conservation and restoration.
Help us at Project Seagrass raise £100,000 to protect and restore seagrass through science and community action.
Donate today: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/changing…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Seagrass meadows are not separate from people, but places where communities can thrive alongside nature
Please support Project Seagrass in our conservation and restoration efforts, bringing people together for nature with our latest crowdfunder: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/changing…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Our Ocean is Changing... crowdfunder.co.uk/p/changing…
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
If we could bottle what seagrass does, I suspect we’d find it easier to fund.
Fish nurseries. Food. Livelihoods. Carbon storage. Coastal protection.
Quite a label. Help us protect and restore the real thing:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/changing…
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Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
Some of our most valuable infrastructure is alive.
Seagrass supports fisheries, stores carbon and helps protect coasts. Climate change threatens those benefits.
Protect existing meadows. Let science guide restoration. Fund long-term recovery.
#Seagrass
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
The tragedy of the seagrass commons swansea.ac.uk/media-centre/l… via @SwanseaUni
Some of our most valuable infrastructure is alive.
Seagrass supports fisheries, stores carbon and helps protect coasts. Climate change threatens those benefits.
Protect existing meadows. Let science guide restoration. Fund long-term recovery.
#Seagrass
If we could bottle what seagrass does, I suspect we’d find it easier to fund.
Fish nurseries. Food. Livelihoods. Carbon storage. Coastal protection.
Quite a label. Help us protect and restore the real thing:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/changing…
#Seagrass
Richard Unsworth 🏴 retweeted
The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates: buff.ly/214kSa7
Read that again.
Time for the people that are fueling this crisis to pay for the damage they're causing.
#ActOnClimate
