Thank you so much to Polly
@PlantBasedNews
for this brilliant article! We are delighted to be featured & hope that this piece will inspire more vegans to support the VLM - enabling the rewilding of many more acres of ex-dairy land, saving animals, species in decline & the planet.
NEWS FLASH 💥
#DairyLandBuyout4
#VeganLandMovementCIC
has just taken 10 acres from dairy farming
We have been working behind the scenes since losing the last auction
This is the 4th & biggest parcel of land removed so far & will be given back to the earth & endangered species
💥BREAKING NEWS 💥
The Vegan Land Movement 💥JUST WON 💥 the adjacent land at auction.
The badger families will now have over 15 acres where they cannot be hunted or culled.
For 15 yrs the sabs have defended these badgers 🦡
Thank you to all who made this happen 🙏
#Badger
BREAKING NEWS💥
ADJACENT LAND AUCTION & BADGER PROTECTION ALERT‼️
A plot of grazing land has come up for sale right next to VLM land & goes to auction in 2 weeks. It turns out, this area is in the middle of all sorts of animal abuse.😡🧵
BREAKING NEWS: ‼️💥
IMMINENT DAIRY LAND AUCTION. Next week‼️
The plot is perfect – it is a great size (over 11 acres) and not far from one of the VLM’s other plots.
It is also near one of the biggest farmed animal markets in Europe 🤬
Breaking news📢
#DairyLandBuyout5
has now been planted with 1500 native saplings to create another future bio-diverse woodland.
3 glorious days with 30 incredible
#vegans
planting trees 🌳🌱🐦🦋
Thank you to all who donated to remove this area of land from dairy farming🌍
#WorldVeganDay
Tomorrow many
#Vegans
are heading to Somerset to plant a future native woodland on
#DairyLandBuyout5
We have around 1500 native trees to plant all selected to help save critically endangered species.
We are planting in a storm but we are DRIVEN to save life🦔
BREAKING NEWS 📢🎉
#DairyLandBuyout5
SUCCESS 🐮
A few months ago the fundraise target for
#DairyLandBuyout5
was met.
We are now delighted to announce that we have been successful & this 5th area of land has now been removed from dairy farming FOR GOOD 🙌
@PlantBasedNews
#Vegan
shout out 📢
Shall we go for this 13 acre parcel of grazing land for sale & take it away from the horrific DAIRY INDUSTRY?🐮
Shall we give it back to the EARTH & plant a native forest for creatures facing extinction ?🌳🦔🐀🦋🌍
#WorldRewildingDay
RT if you think YES!
VLM News thread📢
On the 18th of Feb 2022 the VeganLandMovementCIC were successful in removing this 3rd plot of land below from Animal Agriculture grazing.
Saving this land was special because it had Planning Permission for a CHICKEN UNIT for approx. 20,000 birds a year🐓
NEWS FLASH 💥📢
#VeganLandMovementCIC
#DairyLandBuyout2
Today the VLM entered another auction with the funds raised last month.
WE ACTUALLY WON 🎉💥
7 acres of dairy grazing in Somerset is now being given back to the earth & endangered species in perpetuity.
BREAKING NEWS📢
The
#VLMSpeciesCounts2023
has now been compiled.
The land removed from cruel dairy farming is now alive with life & here is a snapshot of some of it😍
Scroll down to see new families now breeding on VLM land & full species spreadsheet.
#VeganLandMovement
🧵
#VeganLandMovementCIC
Breaking news📢
The legal proceedings have just been completed on
#DairyLandBuyout4
purchased on the 22nd of June.
A HUGE thank you to all of the donors & subscribers 👏
This 10 acre patch of our earth is now
#Vegan
& will be home to struggling species
We all know this cheeky bird. The House Sparrow.
Here are some facts
Rural populations have halved & linked to changes in agricultural practices.
Numbers in towns & cities have also declined by 60%. The house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Should we as vegans remove land from animal farming to create safe havens for struggling wild creatures?
🐹🦋🐝🪳🦗🐞🪲🐌🪱🦎🐿️🦉🦔🦊🐦🌳
Animal agriculture is responsible for wiping out so much biodiversity & many creatures are facing extinction.
💥 NEWS FLASH 💥
The
#DairyLandBuyout5
🐮 target has just been met. Thank you to all the generous donors & subscribers who helped us reach it. We hope to be able to share good news about this 5th plot very soon 🤞
Together we can remove the land from those who harm life
#Vegan
#VLMSpeciesCounts
Breaking News📢💥
Some of the photographed species that have colonised the 1st parcel of land removed from dairy grazing, species that the VLM volunteers observed, photographed & successfully identified
#Rewilding
#Vegan
Survey link👇
Happy New Year 🌍
Our first tweet this year is about the earth itself. The soil, because without this nothing would exist. So lets take a little journey under our feet.
Here are a few facts 🪱
📢URGENT⚡️We are facing extinction & our earth & species are in peril 🌍
We are excited to announce our fundraise to buyout a 2nd piece of dairy grazing land.
This is approximately 7 acres used for grazing cattle.
#VeganLandMovementCIC
#COP26
BREAKING NEWS: ‼️💥
IMMINENT DAIRY LAND AUCTION. Next week‼️
The plot is perfect – it is a great size (over 11 acres) and not far from one of the VLM’s other plots.
It is also near one of the biggest farmed animal markets in Europe 🤬
QUESTION: 📢
Why should vegans donate a few £$'s en masse to remove land from dairy farming?
When we take land from dairy farming it's a maximum win.
1. A win against farming cows 🐮
Please read this thread there are 12 days to auction 🔽
📢 This little toadlet is facing extinction along with many other amphibians 🐸
Their aquatic habitat has been polluted by agricultural runoff and they have little spaces left to hibernate on land due to animal agriculture.
Are we going to let them die out?
A 🧵
The leaves are starting to turn & fall 🍂🍁
Fallen leaves are a habitat for all sorts of creatures.
By raking or blowing leaves, you disrupt their life cycle & harm them.
Here are some creatures who hide in fallen leaves 😍
#biodiversity
@Protect_Wldlife
Rodents 🐭
Toad news 🐸
A thread about toads.
Toads are on the move. They are leaving the lower ground & spawning ponds to head into the higher undergrowth to eventually hibernate.
#ClimateCrisis
#Ecocide
#nature
#vegan
Meet the common toad (Bufo bufo)
Like many of the UK's native species, the common toad has been impacted by loss of habitat, particularly the loss of breeding ponds and woodland. 1000s of toads are also killed on the roads every year.
NEWS FLASH 💥🦡🦡
Sabs just visited plot 7 & found several
#badger
latrines 💩 🦡💩🦡
This is fantastic news. These badger families now have 15 acres & as this land completely rewilds will have a protected safe haven away from harm.
#EndTheCull
💥BREAKING NEWS 💥
The Vegan Land Movement 💥JUST WON 💥 the adjacent land at auction.
The badger families will now have over 15 acres where they cannot be hunted or culled.
For 15 yrs the sabs have defended these badgers 🦡
Thank you to all who made this happen 🙏
#Badger
Meet the Turtle Dove 🕊️
Here are a few facts.
Turtle dove numbers have dropped rapidly since the mid 1960s. The decline not surprisingly down to changes in farming practice, such as reduced access to seed and reduction in breeding sites.
Last week we made history 🙌📢
We planted trees on the dairy grazing in Somerset that we all bought out at auction last year.
Somerset is known for
#dairy
and producing
#cheese
.
This county is a monoculture patchwork centred around cattle farming.
#WorldVeganDay
Tomorrow many
#Vegans
are heading to Somerset to plant a future native woodland on
#DairyLandBuyout5
We have around 1500 native trees to plant all selected to help save critically endangered species.
We are planting in a storm but we are DRIVEN to save life🦔
#DairyLandBuyout5
💥 LAND NOTICE ALERT 💥
Over 6 acres of dairy grazing land has come to our attention 🐮
We have 1 month to reach the target to remove this land from dairy farming forever & give it back to the earth & endangered species 🦋🦔🌳
🧵
#VeganLandMovementCIC
Species Introduction.
The Ladybird 🐞
There are about 5,000 different species of Ladybirds in the world. These much loved critters are also known as lady beetles or ladybugs, and in many cultures they’re considered good luck.
#wildlife
#ClimateCrisis
BREAKING NEWS💥
ADJACENT LAND AUCTION & BADGER PROTECTION ALERT‼️
A plot of grazing land has come up for sale right next to VLM land & goes to auction in 2 weeks. It turns out, this area is in the middle of all sorts of animal abuse.😡🧵
Exciting news! 📢🥁🎉
We would like to announce that the Vegan Land Movement’s application to become a CIC (Community Interest Company) has been successful! 🙌
💥BREAKING NEWS 💥
#DairyLandBuyout5
has just reached £32,000. We are so close to being able to hopefully give another 6 acres back to critically endangered species 🦊🐝🐛🦋🐞🐌🦎🦗🦔🌳🐾
#VeganLandMovementCIC
creating a Vegan World acre by acre 🌱
#Vegan
These 4 areas of grazing land have been removed from dairy farming for good. 1 had planning permission for a chicken unit which the VLM stopped.
All of these plots have been planted with native saplings & returned to the earth &
#wildlife
#ClimateEmergency
#mondaythoughts
🧵
Thank you to all the donors to the last fundraise & to all the many VLM subscribers who have collectively removed this land from animal farming to now return it back to wild animals & biodiversity 🐝🐛🦋🐌🪲🐞🦗🪱🦉🐿️🦔🦊🦡🌳🌍
This is
#CompassionInAction
Today is
#WorldEnvironmentDay2023
What does environment mean to you?
This tiny Hazel Dormouse is seriously endangered. They need lots of trees & biodiversity in their environment to survive 🐹
A 🧵
Meet the Hedgehog
Here are a few facts
Hedgehog numbers have fallen by 50% since the turn of the century. Management of pastures with herbicides & fertilizers reduce the amount of invertebrates they can eat. The loss of woodland & undergrowth shelter is proving detrimental 🦔
Meet the Dormouse 🐀
Here are a few facts
Britain's native dormouse has declined by more than a third since the year 2000 according to a report by wildlife charity, the People's Trust for Endangered Species.
#VeganLandMovementCIC
NEW WEBSITE launch 📢
Dear followers we were set to launch the VLM new website a week ago but the area of land that we were bidding on (& just won!🥳) had to take precedence.
So here is the new website & we hope you like it 🌱
NEWS FLASH 💥
THE TARGET HAS BEEN MET 💥
This does not mean the VLM will win at the auction so if you still want to donate PLEASE do. Every bit donated will increase the chances of saving this land for the
#Badgers
& all other endangered wildlife.
URGENT ‼️🦡
Today we met the activists who have been trying to stop the cull & the land where the badger setts
are & the area we MUST remove to give them a safe haven. We sadly cannot show images as we need to keep this area a secret.
We cannot stress how IMPORTANT this is ‼️
History will mark this time as a time of inaction.
A time when we knew all of the facts & did nothing.
The clock is ticking on biodiversity & yet if every
#vegan
on X donated just £5 today a 6th area of land could be removed from animal agriculture.
🧵
Toad news 🐸
A 🧵 about toads.
Toads are on the move. They are leaving the higher places where they spent the winter hibernating & are heading to ponds and ditches to mate and spawn.
Many are killed. Please read on ⏬
#ClimateCrisis
#Ecocide
#nature
#vegan
Calling all vegans! 📢
#DairyLandBuyout4
Due to the overwhelming support in asking if the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
should attempt to buy out this parcel of dairy land we have now launched the campaign 🌍🌳
We have 1 MONTH before the auction
#VeganAction
URGENT ‼️
A plot of grazing land is for sale right next to VLM land & goes to auction next week.
It turns out, this area is in the middle of all sorts of animal abuse.
Farming cows 🐮
Shooting ducks 🦆
Culling badgers🦡
Please support it's SO CLOSE 🙏
A Huge thank you to
@katie_gatens
at the
@thetimes
for reaching out to us to write this article featuring the VLM & our species saving initiative. It has already brought in many new subscribers & donations 🦔
We are so pleased to share this. Please RT!
Are you against dairy farming?
Are you against duck shooting?
Are you against badger culling?
Do you want land removed from animal farming?
Do you want a safe haven for persecuted animals?
Do you want to help save wild species?
#DairyBuyout7
💥NEWS FLASH💥
We are excited to announce that a donor has pledged further funds if needed to help us try & secure
#DairyLandBuyout4
at auction. We have now exceeded our initial target of £40,000 but we need to keep the exact amount confidential to help in the bidding process 🤞
The Vegan Land Movement is ALL of us. It is the entire vegan community coming together to collectively buyout land to repurpose & give back to our earth & its endangered species
Dear Vegans
What if everyone here all donated to buyout this land?
What if we created another oasis like we have done already?
What if we came together in our 1000s to do this over & over colouring all these patches vegan green?
#VeganLandMovementCIC
It's
#TreeTuesday
#Tree
No.12 Elderflower (Sambucus nigra) planted on land removed by
#vegans
from dairy farming
#Vegan
#rewilding
'Hello 👋I am a tiny rare Lesser Whitethroat & this tree helps me on my very long journey, find out how in this 🧵'
URGENT ‼️🦡
Today we met the activists who have been trying to stop the cull & the land where the badger setts
are & the area we MUST remove to give them a safe haven. We sadly cannot show images as we need to keep this area a secret.
We cannot stress how IMPORTANT this is ‼️
To be able to join 2 plots together & create a larger habitat of over 15 acres to protect these badger families would be wonderful + having a local activist group oversee these areas would be such a bonus.
Please donate to create safe havens for life🦡
#VeganLandMovementSpeciesCounts2023
have been completed!
We were amazed to see how much growth there has been since March. Many of the reeds/grasses were up to our middles & taller than us in places! We saw that so much beautiful wildlife had made the plots of land their home.🦋
To remove this area of land in the biggest dairy farming area of the UK would be a such a win for veganism and for all the wild species who will inhabit this future biodiverse ecosystem.
Please support here 👇
What if all the
#vegan
organizations united with all of their followers ALL donating a few £ to remove this unit from the system?
What if a large cooperative was created to turn this into a veganic mushroom/veg growing unit?
@PETAUK
@PlantBasedNews
Dear
#Vegans
💚
Here is a PDF of the VLM's latest newsletter. You may have seen this in email.
If not please take the time to read & share 🐹
We have planted a future woodland to help save this beautiful creature 🐹
Find out why👇🌳🦔🐝🐞🦋🐌🦊
1 IN 6 SPECIES ARE AT RISK OF EXTINCTION ‼️
The GOOD NEWS is that field mice & voles have been seen on the land the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
has taken from dairy farming. This land has been GIVEN BACK to nature 🦔
#RestoreNatureNow
BREAKING NEWS📢
The
#VLMSpeciesCounts2023
has now been compiled.
The land removed from cruel dairy farming is now alive with life & here is a snapshot of some of it😍
Scroll down to see new families now breeding on VLM land & full species spreadsheet.
#VeganLandMovement
🧵
In July the Vegan Land Movement volunteers carried out species surveys on the 4 plots of land removed from dairy & what we found was breath-taking!
💥 In total, an incredible 40 new animal species were seen & 18 new plant species, which were not recorded at all last year 💥
Please find attached the new VLM news page regarding the blocking of a Chicken Unit on grazing land in Somerset. This land will now be part rewilded & partially a veganic community free orchard 🐝🦔🍎
Thank you to all who helped save this land
#VLMCIC
#VeganLandMovementCIC
News 💥
Each week on
#TreeTuesday
we will share some important facts about the tree species VLM volunteers have planted on land the VLM has taken from dairy farming & some of the animals they will help nurture & flourish 🐝🦋🐦🐹🐞🦗🦉🌳
In 2022 the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
blocked a CHICKEN UNIT from being built by buying out the land where it had planning permission for a 20,000 bird unit 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓😬
The VLM were up against 2 chicken farmers so we had to run a stealth campaign.
A 🧵
#VeganLandMovementCIC
Summary💥
Approximately 500 vegans have removed these 4 parcels of land from dairy farming. 1 of them had planning permission for a chicken unit & was destined to farm 1000s of birds
This equates to 25 acres in total no longer used to farm sentient beings
If we don't remove land from animal farming & give it back to wildlife who will?
Did you know that in 1950, there were an estimated 36 million hedgehogs in the UK, it's now estimated that there are only around 1 million left with numbers falling by 97%🦔
An enormous thank you to all who donated and shared🙏You have just returned a little piece of our earth back to nature and to the wildlife who will move in and make it their home.
You ARE the Vegan Land Movement 💚🦔
Humans have a lot to answer for 🌍
We have concreted over much of our earth & driven wild animals from these areas
Nature cannot live here 👇
A thread 🔽
@Protect_Wldlife
@Animal_Watch
@LGSpace
Who wants a vegan world where the land is removed from animal farming and wild species begin to flourish?
If your answer is yes then please be part of the Vegan Land Movement 🌱
Message From A Mouse
“The Earth is a shared home. Let’s ensure it’s a hospitable one for all.”
Join the VLM who are actively trying to save wildlife by creating new habitats for them to live in.
Because all Species Deserve A Future
#DairylandBuyOut
💚⬇️
Today is
#EarthDay
and we must ALL unite to save our Earth's precious species 🐝🦔🦋🐦🦊🐹🦎🌳🐾
We protest 🪧
We campaign 📢
We sign petitions 🖊️
But who is listening?
#EarthDay2023
🧵
#VeganLandMovement
Introduction to some of the earth's incredible species
Meet the Bowerbird
Bowerbirds are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure, decorate it with sticks & brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract a mate.
What do you see here? 👀
Farmed sentient life? 🐑
What else? 🤔
Acre after acre of rolling green fields? 🟩
Do you see wildlife? 🦔🦋
Do you see biodiversity? 🌳🦗🐝
We could plant a forest here to give the homes back to all the animals missing from this image 🌳
How? 🧵
#VeganLandMovementCIC
Update: 🌍💚
Tomorrow we are heading to Somerset to record the species who are now starting to inhabit the land removed from dairy farming 🐮
We will be recording plants, invertebrates & other animals. We will be building a body of research each year.
Another reason to buy out grazing land & to return it to nature - ending the pollution of the air, soil & water & surrounding ecosystems whilst giving habitat back to native species in decline. Plus through rewilding there is the added benefit of carbon draw down.
Our tolerance of the pollutants that poison 98% of us every day is one of the great mysteries of modern life. In this week's column I try to explain it.
#HappyNewYear2023
from all the volunteers at the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
🥳
Here's a look back at what we all achieved in 2022.
Removing land from animal agriculture & saving wildlife 🐝🐞🦋🐦🦔🐾🌳
Thank you to all supporters. Look at the difference you made in 2022. 👏🌟
🧵
Today is
#WorldBeeDay2022
🐝
Put simply, we cannot live without bees.
Bees & other insects help pollinate approximately 75 percent of the world's flowering plants.
'If bees disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have 4 yrs left to live' Einstein
What can we do to help Moles? We can learn to share our world with these creatures and make a space for them in our gardens. Understanding the species around us is paramount if we are to help them from becoming extinct.
#VeganLandMovement
#GoVegan
#EndSpeciesism
2 years ago this first parcel of land was won at auction & removed from dairy farming for good 🙌
There will be 100s if not 1000s of other species that were out of sight, hiding, nocturnal or too small to see with the naked eye.
Who will help save the UK's arboreal hazel dormouse? 🐹
This cute mouse is on the RED LIST because of loss of habitat.
We all know who is to blame & when we remove the land from animal farming & give it back to nature this creature has hope🙏
.
#TreeTuesday
#VLMTreeOfTheWeek
🧵
Tree No4, planted on land taken from dairy farming by the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
Part of the cherry family this pretty tree is sometimes known as "Mother of the Wood" but it's commonly more famous for its berries ...
When we leave land to recover, nature quickly moves in & restores biodiversity, equilibrium & balance. This land & these species will be protected in perpetuity under the Vegan Land Movement CIC constitution & Eco-Vegan Principles.
#Rewilding
#VeganLandMovementCIC
Please subscribe to the
#VeganLandMovement
buying back the land to save all species and biodiversity. Creating Veganic Farms and Compassionate Conservation.
Question:
Why do we need a Vegan Land Movement?
Answer:
Because there isn't one
Please join the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
to remove this 4th plot of dairy grazing & to plant a native forest protected under vegan principles of NO harm.
#DairyLandBuyout4
LAND BUYOUT ALERT AUCTION‼️🧵
7 Reasons why it is important for vegans to remove land from dairy farming?
1. It limits the exploitation & suffering of cows🐮
2. It stops polluting methane & runoff💩
3. It enables land to rewild & reforest 🌳
The VLM are in Parliament Square today with
@vivacampaigns
demanding that world leaders STOP EATING THE EARTH this COP28!
Demand for meat dairy, fish & eggs is the no. 1 driver of wildlife loss, is fuelling the climate crisis & threatening humanity’s own existence & yet.. contd👇🏻
It's
#NationalTreeWeek
Trees are not just Trees 🌳
Forests are not just Forests 🌳🦔🌳🐿️🌳
A single Oak Tree can be home to 300 different types of animal & literally 1000s of individuals.
A Forest is a community of life. 🐹🕷️🦎🐦⬛🌍
Grazing is a wildlife dead zone ☠️
Take a look at the areas of land the
#VeganLandMovementCIC
have removed from animal agriculture & given back to our earth & critically endangered wild species.
If you want to see more of this then please join the
#VLMCIC
#Vegan
#Community
in
#action
🐮🦋
Meet the Wart-biter cricket 🦗
Most of us would have heard their song without knowing who is doing the singing 🦗
Here are a few facts...
Many insects are being overlooked as we wantonly destroy the natural world. The Wart-Biter Cricket is sadly one of them 🦗😔