'They do it because they are frightened.' This tells a story of the pressures on EA Staff. It's not acceptable.

I'd also add that the same about NE staff trying to work in contested landscapes such as Dartmoor and the pressures they are under.

Great work by ENDS Report

Pond life. At Great Moor, near Moreton’ This pond is less than two years old. Created by filling in a ditch and holding the water back.

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘May in South Devon’
Whitbread calendar 1971
Artist: SR Badmin

❤️

Amazingly, almost 1% of the entire population of spoon-billed sandpipers are pictured here.

We're working to protect the future of 'spoonies' - there are fewer than 800 of these birds left worldwide!

#WorldEndangeredSpeciesDay

Spectacular Dartmoor morning. At Hookney Tor doing moorland bird survey. Enjoying really good numbers of Whinchat hereabouts.

.Tony Whitehead Guy Shrubsole Tories in last ditch attempt to degrade more of our environment before they are booted out? #AttackOnNature

I'll be there ... will you?

Dear Conservatives, please keep your promise to ban the sale of horticultural #peat this year. Support Theresa Villiers' Members Bill this Friday! #BanPeatExtraction #BogsNotBags Rebecca Pow Rishi Sunak SteveBarclayMP

100% this from Rebecca Speight Craig Bennett Hilary McGrady & Darren Moorcroft (he/him): 'SSSIs are our primary nature protection tool...fundamental to meeting the commitments made by government to conserve #30by30 .... We should be investing in them... not making them subject to political whim'.

Here’s me talking about nature restoration on Dartmoor with the lovely folks at ENDS Report

White Early Purple Orchid near Chagford, Dartmoor. #wildflowerhour

Loving these images.

Poignant reminders …

Lovely afternoon watching and listening to Whinchat below Birch Tor. Tree pipit and cuckoo as well.

The first foray out into the world for my fourth book of folk tales, out in October 2024! #folktales #folklore #storytelling #England #marine #ocean #sea Soc for Storytelling