#UNITED KINGDOM

[reasonsforhope]

"Thousands of trees have been planted by volunteers as part of a new temperate rainforest in south Devon.

More than 2,500 native trees have been planted so far this winter at Devon Wildlife Trust's Bowden Pillars site near Totnes.

The charity said as well as storing carbon, temperate rainforests supported "a super-abundance" of wildlife.

The trust is transforming 30 hectares (75 acres) of sheep-grazed fields into a landscape with 70% tree cover and open glades and wildflower-rich meadows.

The charity said more than a 100 local people planted species including oak, rowan, alder, hazel, birch, willow and holly.

Nick Biggs, an 83-year-old volunteer, said he got involved with the project after being inspired by his apprenticeship with the Forestry Commission in 1958.

"That introduced me to the environment," he said.

"I was really keen to carry on with it and it's good for your fitness just to get out and do something."

The trust said in decades to come the new trees would form a temperate rainforest with high rainfall and humidity.

Helen Aldis from Moor Trees, which supplied some of the saplings, said many had been gathered locally.

She said: "The oak that's going in today is from acorns that we've gathered on Dartmoor that have come back to our tree nursery.

"Our volunteers process those, pop them into the root trainers and then they come out a year or two later to become the woodlands of the future."

'Incredibly rare habitat'

The trust said the damp woodlands used to cover large parts of Britain, but today amount to just 1% of its land area.

Project leader Claire Inglis said: "It's an incredibly rare habitat and we've lost a great deal of it over the years.

"Across the UK there is around 13% woodland cover but in Devon it's actually 11%, so it's lower than the national average."

The trust said the forests supported a variety of birds such as pied flycatchers, woodcock and redstarts, while the damp conditions meant mosses, liverworts, lichens, ferns and fungi thrived on the trees and forest floor.

Ms Inglis added: "The mix of young trees in amongst grass pastures and hedges, along with our commitment not to use pesticides and artificial fertilisers, will be better for local moths, butterflies and bees, along with farmland birds such as yellowhammers and barn owls."

The trust said 7,000 trees would be planted in the first winter with more planned in the future."

-via BBC, January 30, 2025

[errantindy]

Signal boost, because we all gotta fight transphobia everywhere.

We’re all siblings together y’all.

Well fucks? Get to it!

[wgm-beautiful-world]

CHARLECOTE PARK - ENGLAND

[technofeudalism]

this tweet in response to why the reactions from the global south in response to partnering with China are so much more positive than the United States or the UK will be stuck with me forever

[onthisdayts]

The Red Tour

February 1, 2014 - London, United Kingdom

[ink-feathers-and-paper]

You don't have to be a UK citizen, so long as you are a UK resident with an adress (physical and email), you can add your signature.

Calling all Brits on this hellsite.

We all saw Elon Musk do the nazi salute at the Trump inauguration. We know that he is influencing and fanning the flames of right wing political parties.

And that very well may include ours.

Because Elon Musk has pledged to donate $100 million to the Reform party. He has since mentioned that it might be hard to give such a large sum now.

But I don’t think we should take our chances. And I think we can agree that letting billionaires influence our countries politics is a terrible idea.

If you also agree here’s a link to a Parliament petition.

It calls for the government to remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).

As it is a parliament petition the government are required to debate it in parliament. But for that to happen it needs to reach 100,000 signatures.

Non British folk I’m afraid you guys can’t sign but I encourage you guys to reblog so that more people can see this.

[royaldarling]

During the coronation of King Charles III : Prince William, Princess Catherine, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis 🇬🇧

All 3 children are so precious 😍😍

I love the faces Prince Louis made at the coronation 😂😂

[applebugg]

Three young barn owls standing in the stone quatrefoil of Christ Church, Fulmodeston.

[boschintegral]

Photo by https://cycles-seasons.tumblr.com/post/774012410987249664

[charlesoberonn]

Charles III: Don't paint my hands or face red, I don't want people to think I've got blood on them.

Painter: Of course, your majesty.

[florealegiardini]

This wisteria drenched Manor House, outside Broadway, is the dream romantic Cotswolds getaway. ~ James Lloyd Cole

Broadway, Cotswolds, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

[petitworld]

Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England

[ziggy-scardust]

Yessss where my Brits at

there's a petiton to legally recognize nonbinary genders in the uk that's active right now. i know you're probably not in the uk but i think your blog has more reach than mine so i don't know if you'd want to share it

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700312

i'm more than happy to spread awareness to help ppl in different countries! i may not inherently know what's going on in other places, but i'm very open to helping as many people as i can!

feel free to sign & share! thanks for the tip anon, i appreciate it! :)

[mysharona1987]

Huh. says it all really.

[la7ma-mafrooma]

The fact that we, Arabic-speaking average people(aka non-journalists), have to keep up with translating Palestinian posts from Arabic to English to avoid having Western Media/Pro-Zionists mistranslate on purpose, says enough about how we all lost trust in the media. From the "there's a list" guy who was standing in front of a calendar and condemning the days of the week, to the BBC's mistranslation of a freed Palestinian hostage's interview. I will try my best to keep translating whatever I can find, and I encourage my fellow bilingual/multilingual Arabs to do the same. It's already sad enough that Palestinian journalists and even children have to use English in videos instead of their native tongue in order to get the world leaders' attention.

Please keep speaking about Palestine.