Vanessa Rowlands
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🌱Chair of South Downs National Park Authority 🌱Chair National Parks England🌱Cuckmere Valley Parish Councillor🌱
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- noooooooooo #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsGreat event in parliament to celebrate success of @campaign4parks.bsky.social New Perspectives, & now we have a cohort of young leaders & campaigners @tarynnixon.bsky.social @roseoneill.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @vanessarowlands.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...
- Reposted by Vanessa Rowlands🐟🌲💧- Our environment is under attack! The government is getting rid of the biodiversity net gain promises they previously made. That means precious habitats like our chalk streams in Hampshire are all under threat. This is not acceptable. We have to protect our environment.
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsAnd this is begorw longer-term threat from sea level rise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsLatest from me: on Floods, Storm Claudia & the ones that are ignored, and why. We really have no idea what's about to hit us www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- you muppets!!!! #CelebrityTraitors
- David has been so bad the whole way through this - Alan to win! #celebrityTraitors
- Nick you were Joe’s hundy !!!
- you idiots!!!! #celebritytraitors
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsI’ve found my new Doctor #celebritytraitors
- Reposted by Vanessa Rowlands🌿A full house for the launch of the new APPG for National Parks & National Landscapes yesterday! 🌿 The new APPG will provide a powerful voice in Parliament 💪 A huge thank you to all the MPs, Peers & partners who joined us to make this such an energising start
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsIt's now clear that the gov't are NOT proposing to repeal the Protected Landscapes duty 🙌 A huge thank you to the more than 200 charities, businesses & organisations who joined us in writing to Keir Starmer 💚 Now to focus on improving our Protected Landscapes... www.cnp.org.uk/news/plans-t...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsEd Miliband is entirely right here. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsIncredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
- Reposted by Vanessa Rowlands"Areas where peatland was restored and rewetted were notably more resilient to the fires".
- Stork’s Bill 🩷 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsWe have 2 copies of Kim Taplin's 'The English Path' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @littletollerbooks.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list!
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsPoliticians like Kemi Badenoch say the clean energy transition is impossible—but the private sector understands it’s the only way to lower prices, writes @nixonsimon.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsBravo Chattanooga! “A city once dubbed ‘the dirtiest in the US’ has been designated North America’s first national park city... a citizen-led cleanup and environmental legislation helped to revitalise riverfronts and transform former industrial sites into parks and trails”
- Reposted by Vanessa Rowlandsah lads #RaceAcrossTheWorld is back on BBC1 at 9pm Wednesday 23rd April
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsAnother England, my interview with Caroline Lucas soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/a...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsNations from 175 countries have gathered in London this week at the International Maritime Organisation to hammer out the final details of a deal, more than a decade in the making, that could finally deliver a plan to decarbonise shipping over the next 25yrs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsTickets selling fast - see me at the Linnean on Thursday talking about adapting conservation to address the uncertainties around future climate change
- Cowslips and bees in Sussex today 💛🐝 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
- Funding used for Nature Based solutions = 💚🌟🥳
- Now that's a job well done. Thanks to the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) programme, Keymer Farm in East Sussex was able to enhance their local chalk stream and increase natural flood management capacity through the restoration of two on-site ponds. #SouthDowns #FiPL
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsI did TEDxLondonWomen a while back and it got picked up by TEDtalks and now has over 1.7million views. Coolest thing that ever happened to me! Especially good that I was talking about action on climate and nature dealing with populism and that keeps getting more relevant www.ted.com/talks/angela...
- Great news! Congratulations @tonyjuniper.bsky.social on being reappointed as Chair of @naturalengland.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsIn the week everyone's talking about Adolescence, here's the stats on how the crisis in teenage boys is shaping the future in a really quite terrifying way:
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsAs I explained here the Conservatives move was not without electoral risk to them. Yes the politics of climate can change especially if it’s seen to be unfair, but at the same time for most of the public tackling climate is seen as a hygiene factor for the next generation. bsky.app/profile/luke...
- Busy night for the toads and newts. Please drive with care in migration areas @sussextw.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsThe UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsPeople suffering most from climate crisis unable to cope – activist www.channel4.com/news/people-...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsCosta Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing? Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsCan you believe Spotify are hosting this “course”? Would hosting this be a breach of the UK’s Online Safety act? Shockingly there’s no way to report this on the Spotify app?!? Source : www.linkedin.com/posts/eloisa...
- 🐸 #ToadsOnRoads They look like little brown pyramids from far away Lots are spawning atm, so do drive carefully in migration areas 🙏🏻 #SouthDowns @froglife.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsSome in Labour HQ may want to reflect on this - here’s a policy which has drastically improved air quality, benefitting the poorest citizens. But Starmer’s LOTO started criticising it because a couple of Clarkson bigmouths complained in focus groups & they (wrongly imho) blamed it for Uxbridge loss
- Reposted by Vanessa RowlandsHappy #InternationalWomen'sDay ! Congratulations @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social on the publication of 'Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World'... which traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth’s wild places. 🌿
- For whoever needs this 💚 #SevenSisters #SouthDowns
