Jonathan Elmer - Green Party Spokesperson for Nature

What is the High Seas Treaty? The agreement ratified by 83 countries The world’s first legally binding agreement to protect marine life in international waters took effect on Saturday

🐳 83 countries have signed the High Seas Treaty.

🐋 This could protect of 30% of the High Seas by 2030. A vital lifeline to marine ecosystems.

💚 Finally some real hope in an otherwise bleak world. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business

UK NATURE'S RIGHTS BILL LAUNCHED IN PARLIAMENT TODAY

The bill reclassifies nature as a SUBJECT of law, with legal personhood.

It recognises that neither humans or economies can exist without nature.

This profound but positive disruption is needed NOW.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

BOTTOM TRAWLING IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS TO CONTINUE

Government has announced that efforts to ban this super destructive method of fishing are "disproportionate."

Labour's #WarOnNature continues.
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Badger cull expansion given go-ahead by officials against advice of own science chief Exclusive: Supplementary culls set to begin in nine areas from Sunday and 10 areas from September

Labour has announced a continuation and expansion of the badger cull.

This despite the advice of the Natural England Scientific chief.

The war on nature continues.
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MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’ Laura Loomer lamented that the new pope ‘is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis,’ adding that it’s ‘GROSS’ that he now leads the Catholic Church

💯 An excellent choice I would say.

✅️His priorities include poverty and the environment.

📣 Lets hope @PopeLeo quickly gets to work helping the far right and MAGA cultists understand that their ideology is the antithesis of Christ.

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Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...

@UKLabour is backtracking on a new rule that would require a Swift Friendly brick, in new build houses.

They think it's woke.

I think they've completely lost the plot.

Sign the petition below.

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For as long as I’ve been a @greenparty.org.uk member, @jonathanelmer.bsky.social has been the constant driving force at election time - pushing all of us North East folk to do better

Jonathan’s hard work in his community has now been vindicated with his re-election, and election of a second Green!

Congratulations Durham Greens
Now up to 2 seats on Durham Council - two more people to hold Reform to account

So pleased for @jonathanelmer.bsky.social #GetGreensElected

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

😬 The #LabourParty roll-back of protections for UK Wildlife has been unprecedented.

💡 It's becoming clear that #keir_Starmer himself is the driving force, as he seeks to curry favour with corporations.

📢 He said so himself!
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Charities challenge Ministers: fix the Planning Bill, or nature will pay the price | The Wildlife Trusts In a joint letter, over 30 charity leaders issued a warning to Government calling for urgent repairs to the new planning reforms. The reforms fail to deliver the Government’s promise of a ‘win-win’ fo...

Wildlife Trusts have stepped up their opposition to Labour's Planning & Infrastructure Bill which:

-rolls back existing site protections

-allows for impacts to be balanced off site

-will create geographic DEAD ZONES
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Environment secretary’s appeal against Yorkshire river pollution ruling fails Appeal court finds in favour of anglers who said plans to clean up river were so vague ​a​s to be totally ineffectual

💚ANGLERS 1 GOVERNMENT 0

🐟Anglers fighting to improve the Costa Beck have defeated Labour's blocking tactics in court.

👏A rare victory against Labour in their war on nature.
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Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit - Greenpeace UK An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish in the UK’s Marine Protected Areas, damaging precious marine habitats and fish populations,...

🐟Supertrawlers are destroying fish populations in UK Marine Protected Areas.

😔Labour have the power to stop this, but they are not!

❓️What happened to the Brexit promise to take back control of UK waters?

www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/supertr...

Green leader Adrian Ramsay: Labour’s ‘growth v nature’ framing is an outrage Co-leader says deprioritisation of net zero is ‘extremely dangerous’ as he rejects ‘nimby-in-chief’ characterisation

Labour's Planning & Infrastructure Bill positions NATURE as a BARRIER to development. It..
-drops the need for pre development nature surveys
-allows for impacts to be balanced off site
-will create geographic DEAD ZONES
-rolls back Tory legislation!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just appalled at Labours' sudden decision to cut funding for Nature Friendly Farming.

It's a huge blow to nature and a huge blow to farmers.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

Most people think lead shot was banned years ago, but its still the weapon of choice for the shooting industry.

🤢Birds eat it thinking its seed, people accidentally eat it in game, and the soil is poisoned.

✅Time for a complete ban! Come on Labour!
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💚Great to see agreement at COP16 on financing of the 30/30 targets, and the very late submission of the UK #NBSAP.

But the emerging Planning & Infrastructure Bill gives developers freedom to bulldoze.

The two don't line up at all!
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‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster

✈️ #RachelReeves claims #SustainableAviationFuel will ensure airport expansion is compatible with climate and nature targets.

✖️ There is NO evidence to support this claim

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Labour risks ‘powder keg’ clash with environmentalists as it puts growth before going green As chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to expand London airports gains traction, the party is accused of back-pedalling on its green commitments

Says @rspb.bsky.social

“There is some deeply shocking rhetoric coming from the UK government"

Yes. The #ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis are physical realities that the government ignores at all of our peril

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics Opinium survey of 2,000 adults found concern about the impact of growing wealth inequality in the UK

#democracy - it would be a good idea. And it demands getting the #BigMoney out of politics

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

UK climate and nature bill dropped after deal with Labour backbenchers Ministers avoid internal party row by promising potential rebels they will have input into environmental legislation

Labour have just trashed a bill that only intended to ensure compliance with agreed Climate and Nature targets.

DO YOU SEE THEM YET?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To whom are you beholden?

Tories walk out of City Hall meeting in protest over 'wokery' The protest came after the Green Party’s Zack Polanski refused to agree to host an all-male panel discussion

A story in two parts:

Green Party - "(Tories) protest came after Zack Polanski refused to host an all-male panel discussion."

The Tories- "We’re not going to put up with the wokery" and walked out of the committee.

Then we got on with the meeting.

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On the bright side...

Sushi restaurateurs fork out $1.3m for motorbike-sized tuna at auction in Tokyo Onodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish market

And as the Tuna dissappear, their financial value increases.

The only chance they stand is through #RightsOfNature legislation.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Here's some common sense about what should lead our news from @robertsaunders.bsky.social
I want to hear about events, UK and worldwide, not nutty outbursts from a 'foreign plutocrat' which are low on news value.

Labour needs to understand that functional natural systems support all life, including our own.

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving theWorld examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new phenomenon in the evolution of ...

An interesting read

"Given money is indirectly granted personhood through mechanical pursuit of profits among corporations as ‘legal persons’, increasingly difficult to see why Amazonian rainforest should have less legal support"

#RightsofNature
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It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late, writes former Electoral Commission David Howarth.

It's not just Musk, there are British millionaires bankrolling national policy choices.

#Labour have the power to reform party funding, but seem happy with the status quo.
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Come on Labour, stop the pointless slaughter of wildlife.

UK teenager begins Dubai jail term for relationship with 17-year-old girl Marcus Fakana hands himself in to authorities and will serve year-long sentence in Dubai’s al-Awir prison

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMMY

Marcus is having to lobby his local MP (The Foreign Secretary) to get involved.

Come on David, it's your actual job now.

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