Richard Dowling 🐝 @DowlingWildlife Twitter profile

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Richard Dowling 🐝

5 months

Ive updated my info-graphic on Artificial Lawns in light of yet more harmful impacts coming to light in recent years. Please feel free to save it and share it whenever you see people considering plastic grass on social media. @Shitlawns @BanPlasticTurf @Against3G

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Fuming. A house nearby has put in planning application to lop / remove 7 Oak trees in their garden that are within ancient woodland and are TPO'd. The reason, "Debris on my Astroturf and hot tub" Needless to say my objection is not professional! 😡😡😡

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Imagine walking into Tesco for your weekly shop and finding row after row of nice, tidy, low maintenance shelves but without the food. You and your kids would starve. That's how Bees, Birds, Hedgehogs etc feel when they visit your plastic garden #TimeForTurf #DontBeAnEmptyTescos

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@DowlingWildlife

6 months

Currently looking for a house, @rightmove Could you please add a button that removes all properties with artificial grass from my search?

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

I am not giving up on my petition to tax plastic grass for its ecological damage. 1 week to go and I need everyones help to get to 100,000

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1 year

This gets on my wick. Why are we dousing our towns in cancer causing chemicals instead of using a strimmer a few times a year? #PesticideFreeTowns

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Another two gardens ripped out and replaced with @Shitlawns on my road today. When will humanity wake up and realise that if our ecosystem dies, so do we. Selfishness. There is no other word #SayNoToPlasticGrass

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@DowlingWildlife

1 year

So the Government have banned plastic straws and now they're doing a consultation on banning plastic wet wipes...I agree this is much needed action, but meanwhile people can cover their entire property in plastic?? Can we get some perspective here!! @Shitlawns

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@DowlingWildlife

5 months

I petitioned to; Ban Artificial Grass, Tax it and Require Planning permission. All gained public support but all ignored by Government. Post election I'll be loading up with another idea to prevent entire properties being rendered useless to wildlife. Watch this space @Shitlawns

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

Artificial Lawns are spreading at a worrying rate, fuelling an even more rapid decline of biodiversity. Until Government make these dreadful plastic landscapes illegal, we'll need to work to help people make more informed decisions in their garden. Please share far and wide

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Tesco selling @Shitlawns at Tesco Lunsford Lane today. Could you please tell me how this helps you achieve your bold sustainability pledges and helps us make waste, planet, climate etc better every day? @Tesco . A complete contradiction.

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

I'm saving water by capturing my shower water so I can water the plants for the Bees, meanwhile people are leaving sprinklers on for an hour so their artificial lawn doesn't stink of dog piss. This world.... @Shitlawns 💧

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Another local garden bites the dust and gets turned into a sterile plastic wasteland. I see a new one every time I leave the house! We desperately need to slow this onslaught against nature. Please sign! "Ecological Damage Tax"

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

A part of me dies every spring when contractors come round and spray every inch of road, path and kerb with Glyphosate. I feel so enraged that people think it's ok to douse my home in cancer causing chemicals that also interfere with the health of our Bees and Insects too 🤬

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@DowlingWildlife

1 year

In today's climate and state of ecological collapse, can I ask @theresecoffey if you think companies ripping out all living soils, grasses, shrubs and trees and laying Artificial Grass front and back should continue to be legal? This is dangerous habitat loss made fashionable.

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@DowlingWildlife

1 year

God help us all. Just had a @Shitlawns Installer call me boring for challenging artificial lawns. I said we'll see if his kids find it boring when he's wiped out our pollinators and they have no food in their mouths. To which he said, their food comes from Tesco not his garden...

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

So @Trulawn_grass trying to troll me by inviting me to like their page so Im trolling right back by tagging @Shitlawns on their 400m2 #ShitLawnOfTheWeek This should be illegal! 🤬

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Get yourself a girl who sprinkles Dandies on @Shitlawns 😂😂 #WildflowerHour #BanAstroturf

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Yet another neighbour asking for Artificial Grass installer recommendations. I'm still using my trusty graphic to change hearts and minds away from @Shitlawns and towards repairing soils and relaying a real one.

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Can you help slow this damaging garden trend before it's too late?

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Government won't ban or regulate Astroturf yet habitat loss continues in UK gardens on a daily basis. My compromise is to apply an Ecological Damage Tax on Astroturf to deter its use and encourage more Wildlife & Climate friendly gardens. Please sign

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

A little video explaining my current Astroturf Lawn Petition. Please sign, we're going to need a lot of voices to get this damaging trend slowed down. Thanks

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Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

11 months

Been struggling with mental health lately but what I have found is getting out in Nature is a healer. Two consecutive weekends hiking the valleys of Shropshire and the Peak District have got me well and truly on the mend

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Not a single peat free compost in @asda despite several options. How can you still not provide an ethical choice when it's very much part of national conversation?

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@DowlingWildlife

6 months

Do you know what makes me disproportionately grumpy... The new balloon arch craze! It may be your birthday, but for christs sake you're 30 years old not 3 years old. Capitalism at its most wasteful! #PlasticPollution

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@DowlingWildlife

8 months

We inevitably take from nature to survive, whether it be the food in our mouths or the land we build our houses on. But what we can do is use our gardens to give back to nature. This is something some need to seriously think about...

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@DowlingWildlife

1 year

Saw this today. One side humming with life. Seeds for the goldfinches, worms for the Blackbirds and flowers for the Bees. The other, a sterile, empty, lifeless manefestation of wildlife decline! @Shitlawns

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Yet another new neighbour moving in, ripping out their shrub filled front garden & replacing it with plastic/gravel. Currently watching a huge flowering hedge get chainsawed. Im verging on offering to do gardening for free if people cant be assed to use shears once a year!🤬

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

Another company posting their "Job well done". This sort of thing literally plummets me into a pit of eco-anxiety & hopelessness. An entire garden without a single plant or living surface is not a job well done at all 😞 #Ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis

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@DowlingWildlife

1 year

Another band of conscienceless cowboys on Facebook trying to troll me by inviting me to like their page. Well "Granite and Grass Ltd" meet @Shitlawns and their 50k friends... You're welcome🖕

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

My little find from the Beach this morning. A 56 million year old Sand Tiger Shark Tooth. From a time when Britain was a Tropical Island 😮🦈🏝️

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

I'm not ashamed to say I just sat and cried. I don't even eat seafood and I cried! Please watch this with an open mind and be willing to challenge the societal norms that you follow when you put your fork to your mouth. Please #Seaspiracy 🐋🐬🐟💙😢

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@DowlingWildlife

5 months

Why are birds struggling to feed their chicks we ask #Springwatch

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@Allison31184818

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@Shitlawns this bird must be thinking he's landed in an apocolypse!

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

So the good news is, Ive seen my very first Bee Orchid in the unmown garden of an empty home. The bad news is, ive been plastered all over Facebook for being a car thief simply for walking down a road with a camera! This is the world we live in🤣😂

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@DowlingWildlife

2 months

I'm sure this book will end with hope and positivity but I'm half way through and it makes for horrific reading. We really are sleepwalking into insect apocalypse. Even with me being pretty insect and environmentally aware, this great book is still hitting me hard 😭 @olliemilman

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@DowlingWildlife

5 months

I had turned the small patch outside my flat into the most Bee friendly space on my road, Including plants my Nan gave me before she died and the contract gardeners have come in and ripped out the lot this morning. This sterile neat and tidy attitude to nature has to change 😭

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@DowlingWildlife

5 months

I fail to see how Berkeley Homes are going turn this Orchard full of Skylarks and pollinators into a "Biodiversity Net Gain" which will end up being a load of white range rovers and plastic lawns....

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

I was going to probably shop in the new @AldiUK close to my home but your opening statement to our town is chopping down our Oak Trees! I sincerely hope your new planting scheme is like a nature reserve!! 🤬

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Quite possibly the worst example of garden destruction Ive ever seen!! AreaLandscapes you should hang your heads in shame! Disgusting disregard for everyone & everything! Fuming! #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Retweet if you apologise when you tread on Snails. You're my kind of people!

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Well done @NewcastleCC for banning plastic grass on permanent landscaping. An outright ban including temporary landscaping would be better but this is positive for wildlife and planet none the less

Council pledges action amid 'biodiversity emergency' in Newcastle

Pledges made by Newcastle City Council to protect wildlife include phasing out weedkiller within five years and setting up an alternative to balloon or lantern releases

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

We are making waves!

Independent Climate

@indy_climate

2 years

Chelsea Flower Show bans fake grass in first time in over a decade

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@DowlingWildlife

10 months

I know now of at least 7 petitions to ban or regulate Artificial Grass (3 of them mine) that have been binned by Government. How many more acres of living soils, plants and wildlife needs stripping from our landscape before someone wakes up? @Shitlawns @HoCpetitions @DefraGovUK

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Nothing winds me up quicker than the annual Glyphosate sprayer walking round my road spraying every square inch of path and road so next time it rains they'll pollute our ground water and give us all cancer, cheers mate! 🤷🏼‍♂️

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

How are trees supposed to recycle nutrients if leaves land on concrete and are blown into a binbag with petrol blowers? 📷 #PesticideFreeTowns

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@DowlingWildlife

5 months

Been sent a new property on my Estate Agent app which was perfect for me in every way... Until I looked at the Garden. What the hell is that? Mini Cricket @Shitlawns strip 🚮

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Just had a plastic grass company ask if I'd accidentally hit the angry emoji on their Facebook ads that have spammed my feed. No mate, entirely on purpose 😂

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

FFS Yet another house on my street has ripped out both front and back garden and replaced it with astroturf. Next door to them is all slate, and next to them all pebbles. What chance does wildlife stand clinging on in this environment these people are creating 😭😭😭

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

I dream of the day that I don't live in a sodding flat anymore so that I can turn my lawn into a carpet of Bugle! The Bees are loving it!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Government wont ban or regulate Astroturf yet habitat loss continues in UK gardens on a daily basis. My compromise is introducing an Ecological Damage Tax for Astroturf to deter its use and encourage more Wildlife and Climate friendly gardens. Please sign

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

So happy. I havnt seen a Hedgehog in maybe 15 years but Ive been stashing leaves under a hedge before service charge contractors can tidy up and it's created a great little habitat full of invertebrates and molluscs. Last night we get woken up by snuffling...

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Interested to hear your examples of Wildlife that you always used to see as a child that you just don't see now - highlighting that all is not well in the natural world? For me, its Earwigs and also huge moths on your windowsill if you have windows open and lights on!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

@plymouthcc Everything you see here is a "Weed" Do you think our wildlife is behind your war? Please rethink and educate yourselves. That way if you're receiving complaints from the public you can educate them too. That's the role of a local authority.

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@DowlingWildlife

7 months

"We've got damp on our outside wall" I wonder why!! @Shitlawns

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Every time I leave my house I find another garden wrapped in plastic. I've tried 3 times to get Government to do something, 3 times I've had over 10k people behind me, 3 times now I've had a stock response about caring & being environmentally ambitious but no plans to do anything

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

This is a Common Furrow Bee and it nests on its own in a sunny spot on your lawn, feeding on dandelions. If your garden looks like the example below, you are providing nothing for this Bee and thousands of other species. STOP LAYING ASTROTURF!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Someone on my community Facebook group pleading with people not to set off fireworks in the direction of their house because they've melted their astroturf lawn 😂😂😂😂 Another reason to not coat your garden in Plastic!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Call me a grumpy old sod, but is Halloween worth it? 🎃 Tonnes of edible Pumpkins farmed then binned 👻 Tonnes of plastic tat costumes/decor ending up in Landfill 🍫 Everyone buying chocolate spiking Deforestation for Palm Oil 🌎 I'm going with no. RT if you're giving it a miss!

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Of the petitions I started against Artificial Lawns, it was requirement of Planning Permission that felt most feasible and likely to be implimented. Government said no but the idea continues to gain support!

Make it harder for people to Tarmac over front gardens - says water boss

Steve Wilson said these and other measures were needed to improve water quality in rivers and the sea

www.walesonline.co.uk

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@DowlingWildlife

5 months

Sad hearing about the decline of Farmland birds like the Skylark. In my local case, the farmer mowed a meadow area full of nests and destroyed them all. Why? Hoping to give Berkeley Homes planning permission is my hunch #Springwatch

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Sick of getting ripped off for trying to lower my carbon footprint. Looking at a trip to Ireland without flying and it's £400 by Ferry for a very short stretch. Put the same dates for flying and it's £51. We are screwed unless Government get serious! #ClimateEmergency 😔

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Some people see Organic produce as a fad. For me it’s about not poisoning soils, insects and myself!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Watching wasps clearing splattered bugs off of cars this morning. Theyre opportunists, pest controllers, pollinators, intelligent, social and an important cog in our ecosystem. Lets stop the mass hysteria and give Wasps some love!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

We've done it! 10,000 Signatures. Thanks to all that have signed to bring regulation to Astroturf Lawns. To ensure Government don't just bin it again, please keep sharing & contact your MP to ensure they hear your concerns. Thanks again 🙏🌍💚🐝🐞

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

Dear @BorisJohnson Your Mung Bean comments were derogatory, stereotypical & unprofessional. But you know what, Im proud to be an #Ecofreak . The Natural World has enriched my life & taught me more than an Eton Education ever could. So damn right im going to fight for OUR planet!

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

There are 40 Million fewer birds in Britain now than there were in 1970. Let that sink in...

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Bad wobbly phone shot in the dark but found my first Glow Worm of the year

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@DowlingWildlife

4 months

Spring Greening? The greenwash and terminology used by @Shitlawns companies these days is reckless and frankly insulting to anyone who has an ounce of understanding for what state our natural world is in! 🤬

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@DowlingWildlife

4 months

I've lived in my flat for 11 years and have always had good pollinator plants outside the window. I've seen one bumblebee in a whole week. This year is terrifying #Insectstinction

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Last year I emailed this company advising they stop leaf blowing under hedges and shrubs because they'll be wiping out hibernating moths and insects. They didn't respond and have carried on! It's no longer ignorance, its now willful destruction 😡 #BanLeafBlowers #UseASoddingRake

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@DowlingWildlife

1 year

Just found the largest nesting group of Hairy Footed Flower Bees and Mourning Bees Ive ever seen in someones front garden so ive writen them a note with info about the Bees asking them to take care of the nest instead of accidentally digging it over or spraying it! 🙂

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Here comes mass kettle boiling and ant powdering of gardens! #FlyingAntDay You watch me get told to f*** off 👇

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

That's another garden leaving my street on the back of a flatbed. Trees, hedges, shrubs the lot! Why people still aren't worried about the dripping tap of garden habitat loss I don't know. Let's wait for the Astroturf Installer to turn up shall we!

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Why are people so predictable. I saw a post on Facebook from someone asking if anyone can create this in their living room for them. I said to myself, I bet they have a @Shitlawns as well... And low and behold, a lifeless garden full of paving and plastic!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

@ChrisGPackham Please sign and share all

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Do you know what really grinds my gears. The world is burning and we're rapidly heading for a 6th mass extinction and people are getting more engagement for doing pathetic dances on tiktok than climate scientists get for years worth of work. I just can't...

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@DowlingWildlife

10 months

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

I'm A Celebrity...

@imacelebrity

10 months

Protect Tony’s goldfish at all costs 🐟 #ImACeleb

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

My honest belief is the only people that hate Chris Packham are those doing something they shouldnt be. Fox Hunting, Hen Harrier Shooting, you name it. Anyone that has an ounce of understanding about the pressures our Wildlife face will have nothing but admiration for the man

Raptor Persecution UK

@RaptorPersUK

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SCOTTISH GAMEKEEPERS latest malicious attack on @ChrisGPackham Desperate stuff from an organisation on the ropes #RWP21

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

Why should I work my entire adult life only to hand money over to our Government in the form of taxes that they then spend on things like Fox Hunting, Badger Culling and HS2? Tories bail out 'barbaric fox hunters' with £50,000 cash to survive coronavirus

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@DowlingWildlife

4 years

Government refused to ban Astroturf and so wildlife continues to decline from habitat loss. Planning Permission for this damaging trend should be a requirement! Please sign and share!

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Oh wonderful, our new Environmental Secretary is someone who votes against renewable energy and climate change prevention and votes in favour of things like fracking, HS2 and Badger culls. This Government just gets better!

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Doctors should prescribe Crocus and Snowdrops filled lawns as mental health treatments! Glorious!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Our Government have "No intention of imposing any form of restriction on astroturf lawns". I think our MPs could benefit from a Natural History GCSE, never mind our children!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

I'm going to take a step away from social media for a bit. I'm struggling with life a little lately. Eco-anxiety, work, study, cost of living, war, tories. My shoulders can't take the weight. Time to switch off. Catch up soon when the sun is shining and the Bees are buzzing 🐝

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

I don't care what anyone says, Dandelions are not weeds, they are the most important wildflowers we have! (Cylindrical Leaf Beetle, Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle, Brimstone)

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@DowlingWildlife

9 months

The person who paid for this and the person who installed it needs a heavy fine and a brain transplant. How have we become so disconnected from the the living world that sustains us. Seriously

Richard England

@richengland84

9 months

@Shitlawns rate this one please!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

@Whit_Llandaff You might want to have a think about the businesses you're advertising. 👆 This is neither factual nor responsible

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Today I shall be mostly calling anyone that has ever bought this product, a Dick! Woodlice are invaluable recyclers and decomposers of wood and organic wastes aswell as being a vital cog in the ecosystem. Why on earth would you poison them, your home and your garden?

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Finally found Britain's rarest Bumblebee, The Shrill Carder Bee at Swanscombe Marshes. The thought that this nationally important habitat could be bulldzed so that a handful of people can make a quick buck on a theme park is sickening @LondonResort @sspcampaign @SaveSwanscombe

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

@Shitlawns We urgently need restrictions on this @theresecoffey . Please could you make a move before its too late. Petitions have succeeded in showing public opinion but were rejected by Government none the less

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Astroturf petition update! Thanks for getting my petition to Government response: Please also help @maggiem30026514 get her ban attempt through:

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@DowlingWildlife

2 years

Devastated. Walked past my Bee Bank that had hundreds if not thousands of mining bees of various species nesting in it and someone with a trailer has run wide and wiped the entire bank out. Whole thing smashed smooth, all the nesting Chambers destroyed 😔

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Beautiful day for a lunchtime walk to my local "Bee Wall". Yellow Legged Mining Bees (Andrena flavipes) are emerging, mating and pollinating the Apple Trees! I could spend hours loitering on this country lane bend! 😃🐝

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

If you do one thing today, shine like a Rosemary Beetle! Have a good day folks!

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@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Disappointed doesn't cover it. A petition to ban astroturf was binned by Government and now my Planning Permission petition has also been binned. Doing nothing is not an option, Britain is one of the most nature depleted nations on Earth @TomTugendhat @BorisJohnson @Conservatives

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Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

2 years

I've had a bad day mentally, courtesy of our hopeless Tory Government. BUT, One thing has given me hope. Pressure from a handful of us in my town has led to no mow areas popping up. Its early days, but I love them!

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Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

2 months

An entire Ancient Woodland at Broadwater Road West Malling leveled illegally for mobile homes. Myself and others reported it to @TMBC_Kent and @ForestryEngland over the years when 10% had gone, again at 50%, now there's nothing left to save 👏👏👏

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Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

4 years

In any other case, saying you have a favourite road sign would be considered very very sad but... 💚🐸 #ToadsOnRoads @froglifers

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Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

2 years

In my 20s I thought I was doomed to a career I have no passion in because I didn't go to Uni at 18. Today I find myself in a part time Env Science degree and out in my new job having a go at Watervole surveying! It's been a long road but it's all coming together!

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Richard Dowling 🐝

@DowlingWildlife

3 years

Feeling pretty down today. When you spend your whole life fascinated, passionate and forever learning about a planet and its wildlife that you love so much, only to have a Government that everyone votes for determined to piss it up the wall for personal gain #COP26 #Budget2021

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