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Environmental campaigner and author. Time UK uplands were in public ownership and managed for the benefit of our communities

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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 7h
Heather burning on Sheffield Grouse moors today. 10%of deaths are due to air pollution. These gamekeepers are killing us!
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NEW REPORT: Today we publish Unprotected Nature, a report revealing Natural England's failure to designate any new protected sites. Read about it in the Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’
Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Brilliant result from our legal challenge about overgrazing on Dartmoor ⚖️ Now the Dartmoor Commoners' Council must fulfil its statutory duty & urgently make appropriate assessments of stocking densities & reduce the number of sheep where overgrazing is apparent. wildjustice.org.uk/dartmoor/wil...
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Wild Justice wins High Court ruling that Dartmoor commons have been mismanaged - Wild Justice
Wild Justice wins High Court ruling that Dartmoor commons have been mismanaged The High Court has ruled that Dartmoor commons […]
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Chris Greenwood @1chrisgreenwood.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@bobberzins.bsky.social @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social heather burning above Strines Res approx SK218898, smoke blowing East towards the city
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
No wonder we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity in freefall #BanDrivenGrouseShooting
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Moorland Monitors @moorlandmonitors.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
🩸Hen pheasant found trapped and bleeding in release pen. 💔Neglect and cruelty are rife on shooting estates. ❗️Please be vigilant and monitor your local estate closely. ❤️Thankyou to the brave kind monitor who helped this poor bird. 🚩More info: moorlandmonitors.org @animalaid.org.uk @onekind.org
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Guardian rates Mr Polanski as the favourite, but adds "....no one knows for sure”. The New Statesman also rates Mr Polanski’s chances, praising his “clever comms and outgoing personality”." Make sure you vote! #BackZack www.rossgazette.com/news/ellie-c...
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Chowns, Ramsay vie for Green leadership
Voting is underway to select the new leader(s) of the Green Party of England and Wales, with Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay in the running against Zack Polanski.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excellent to see Ed Miliband taking the fight to Reform & the Tories over their abandonment of net zero. Ed is right - the vast majority of the UK public support bold climate action & the extremists are those who deny the need for it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations
Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament. @wildjustice.bsky.social
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎓 Members of our history and ecology group made a visit to Sheffield archives... 🗺️ We've got saucy historic maps of the moors and other info to digest before we start making beautiful propaganda! 🎶 I'll know my song well before I start singing 💬 Do get in touch if you want to reclaim our moors!
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We’re in Westminster and we’re ready for our parliamentary debate on banning driven grouse shooting – you can watch along online at www.youtube.com/live/dVP_u8X...
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Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Moscar was burned unusually hard under the old regime too, the Wilsons. Don't know why. This from the estimable Bob Berzins @bobberzins.bsky.social is handy on Moscar, if you haven't read it already. abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com/p/take-back-...
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Take Back Our Land
England Land Reform – Sheffield grouse moors need to be on the agenda
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Spot on, @bobberzins.bsky.social. Quite apart from the lack of official scrutiny of spring trap use, allowing a crucial part to be homemade ensures this operation is often ineffective & inhumane. Can you imagine the fuss if you could kill dogs & cattle with devices you’d made yourself?
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📰 The @thestar.co.uk article looks just as lovely in print. 🌱 Reclaim our moors! Are you game?
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
✨ Hurrah for The Star! 🎩 Duke of Rutland urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield' www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ... Reclaim our moors! Are you game?
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/ www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
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Duke urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'
Conservation campaigners are set to bid for a “trashed” grouse moor near Sheffield to “restore it to its former glory.”
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thanks, @bobberzins.bsky.social for writing this guest blog. Detailed observations and commentary about what goes on on Peak District grouse moors... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/18/m...
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More reasons to ban driven grouse shooting – evidence from the Peak District National Park (guest blog by Bob Berzins)
This is a guest blog written by conservation campaigner and author Bob Berzins who has written previously on this blog here, here, here, here, here, here and here. MPs are scheduled to debate the W…
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thank you to the 100,000+ who helped secure this latest debate on banning driven grouse shooting. Please invite your MP to attend! wildjustice.org.uk/general/plea...
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Please ask your MP to attend the debate on banning driven grouse shooting - Westminster Hall, 30 June 2025, 4.30pm - Wild Justice
You will remember that we asked you to sign our most recent petition to ban driven grouse shooting and over […]
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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
💚💚🦊🦊 Cute fox cub action
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Reclaim our moors? I’m game!
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🎉 Fun times on Saturday at our inaugural meeting where we decided to offer the Duke of Rutland £1 to buy Moscar Moor off him, as it is in such a sad and sorry state. 👋 Do say hello if you’d like to get involved and help us reclaim our moors!
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🥾 Visiting Moscar, a grouse moor bordering Sheffield owned by the Duke of Rutland. 🪶 People were angry at the sorry state of the land, due to it being managed for grouse shooting at the expense of all other life 💷 We’re offering the Duke £1 to take it off his hands as it is in such a poor state.
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I asked my MP, Lee Barron, to at least pop in to this debate on grouse shooting in Westminster Hall on 30 June and got a very positive response very quickly. Blog: markavery.info/2025/05/28/a... #grouse #burning #shooting #Corby #petition #parliament #debate
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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Ten years effort from a lot of people and of looks like this abomination of a plastic track will finally be removed from this fragile conservation area markavery.info/2025/05/24/g...
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Guest blog – Midhope track, a final resolution by Bob Berzins – Mark Avery
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Guest blog - Midhope track (success!) by Bob Berzins. Blog: markavery.info/2025/05/24/g... A determined individual can get the right outcome in the end - but it shouldn't be so hard to get public bodies to do their jobs. @peakdistrict.bsky.social #naturalengland @tonyjuniper.bsky.social #defra
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
WE WON! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature. But we're just getting started. It was never just about Dartmoor. We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's paperback publication day for my book THE LIE OF THE LAND - an exposé of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain! 🔥💥🌳 Order yours here: lnkfi.re/JhxHno Tour dates here: lnkfi.re/PkfOhd There's been some BIG policy wins since the hardback was published - a 🧵⬇️
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
There’s cheers for @chrishinchliff.bsky.social MP, who’s standing up for nature & trying to make the government see sense with his amendments to the Planning Bill. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social please adopt Chris’ amendments! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Planning bill will ‘push public towards Reform’: Labour’s Chris Hinchliff on standing up for nature
MP says draft law will let developers ‘pay cash to trash’ habitats and urges colleagues to back his amendments
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In the continuing debate about food standards and imports it’s worth noting two things: 1: the UK objected to the EU ban on hormones in beef when it came in 1986. 2: prior to joining the EU in 1973 it was routine in the UK for poultry meat to be treated with a chlorine wash.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Make something good come of the moronic felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, with the culprits now convicted. The Woodland Trust is calling on Ministers to bring in new legislation so that important trees are listed for protection like historical buildings are: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown. This week's column is on the latest delusions about how we might produce our food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull | George Monbiot
Feeding the world sustainably is an incredibly complex challenge, yet some people are trying to sell us a bucolic fairytale, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Summer is icumen in! May Day morning greetings from above the Cerne Giant, Dorset, with the famous Dorset Ooser and the Wessex Morris Men
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/04/2025
Planning bill would allow builders to ‘pay cash to trash’ nature, say UK experts
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Planning bill would allow builders to ‘pay cash to trash’ nature, say UK experts
Exclusive: plan to let firms sidestep environmental laws by paying into nature levy would add cost and delay, says letter to MPs Leading economists, former government advisers and ecologists are calling for a key section of the government’s planning bill to be changed because it creates a “licence to kill nature”. Sir Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Cambridge, ecology professor Sir John Lawton and Dr Tom Tew, a former chief scientist of Natural England, are among the signatories to a letter to MPs which warns them to ignore government slogans and false rhetoric about nature and wildlife being a block to growth. Continue reading...
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Caught in a springtrap , right next to the pairs two unhatched eggs – this is the true story of a hen harrier attempting to breed on the infamous Leadhills Estate in Scotland . We must ban driven grouse shooting , add your name now govpetition.uk/700036
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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Delivering leaflets today asking the good people of #Sheffield to sign the @wildjustice.bsky.social petition to ban grouse shooting. Nearly there! @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
That's 90,000 signatures! 90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!
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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
❓️Ever wondered how gamekeepers go about "Predator Control" on shooting Moors- killing every bird or animal that might harm a Grouse ❌️ Shooting hide surrounded by bait (hard to tell him recent due to warm weather) Strines Peak District
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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Bullfinch - local wildlife, Argyll
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We've focussed on the big names , Shell , Exxon , BP , but these companies are run by people . People who hide behind those brands to keep their anonymity These corporations , and their leaders , are committing ecocide & they must be held accountable Ban Fossil Fuel Ads → govpetition.uk/700024
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Bilbo’s Bush @wuhjammin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Back on the badgers! Looking for signs of orphaned cubs after a deceased badger was reported close to this sett. Cameras put up to monitor for any cubs that may emerge looking for food or mum. #badgers
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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Grass burning on Lancashire Moors today above Hollingworth Lake Rochdale. Skylark, Golden Plover and Curlew all nesting here.
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Moorland Monitors @moorlandmonitors.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
➰Stink pit and snares on @yorkshirewater.bsky.social Thurlstone Moor. 🦆Ducks shot and dumped as bait. ❌Snares staked to fence posts in breach of Code of Practice. 🦊Wildlife killed for grouse shooting above reservoir supplying our water! 📍SE15913 01943 - Please monitor closely!
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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Our crowdfunder has got off to a cracking start, and we are now £1 off £2000 - who would like to take us past that milestone and forward to achieving a ban on windfarms on protected peatland in England? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
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Protect our peat: don't build wind farms on it!
Peat is our Amazon rainforest: it stores carbon. Putting wind farms on protected peatland would release carbon and worsen the climate crisis
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bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Heather burning on incredibly steep slopes on Midhope Grouse Shooting Moor and a series of Grips (drainage ditches) on Thirlstone Moor let's rainwater pour off the River Don catchment putting Sheffield at risk of flooding. Time to #ReclaimOurMoors with community ownership.
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Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs @sheffhuntsabs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Veg Of Darkness: A Smashing Time At The Grove & Rufford - Our write up of the Grove & Rufford's closing meet on the @huntsabs.org.uk website www.huntsabs.org.uk/veg-of-darkn...
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Veg Of Darkness: A Smashing Time At The Grove & Rufford - Hunt Saboteurs Association
It was the final meet of the season for seasoned foxhunters the Grove & Rufford last Saturday. Sabs were on them all day and frustration boiled over - they were clearly determined to go out with a ban...
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Clive Swinsco @cliveswinsco.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges
DDT use nearly wiped out the raptor by the 1970s. Now peregrine numbers are collapsing again in many countries and no one is quite sure why
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Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs @sheffhuntsabs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"GIVE THE FOX A GUN!" This awesome album - 13 tracks all donated for free by bands including Angelic Upstarts, In Evil Hour, The Menstrual Cramps, Bruise Control and The Enemy Within is now available to buy here - www.givethefoxagun.com Please buy it and support us!
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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thks #RobbieMooreMP for speaking for #TeamPeat in HoC yesterday and highlighting the threat to #Walshaw moor of a #windfarm on highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland. @lucympowell.bsky.social you IGNORED that important point. Planning to break environmental law to get it built? fb.watch/yjS0gxSltN/
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I just chipped in to fund more anti-Elon Musk adverts by the crew who made the 'Tesla Swasticar' ad that went viral. You can too, here: gofund.me/fe50e390
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Donate to Everyone Hates Elon campaign actions, organized by People vs Elon
Not happy with fuelling the far-right in the USA, Elon Musk is now doing the same … People vs Elon needs your support for Everyone Hates Elon campaign actions
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Remember: a vote for Nigel Farage is a vote for Donald Trump, who has just humiliated the true leader of the free world, President Zelensky
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