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The New National Coalition of Tree Campaigners. Umbrella organisation for groups and individuals trying to save trees and green spaces in the UK. Sign up now! Canopy.org.uk

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
UPDATE: Dartington Forest Garden...not out of the woods yet. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @robintransition.bsky.social westcountryvoices.co.uk/reject-corpo...
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UPDATE on the Forest Garden! Still no clear resolution. Keep signing.
UPDATE: The latest from Martin. Not great. “This afternoon our landlords have released a public statement (https://www.dartington.org/forest-garden-update/) which contain a number of misleading statem...
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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'Local hero' Cornwall protesters risked arrest and their lives
For the second week running much-loved trees have been saved from the chop after Cornwall Council was shut down by campaigners as police intervened
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“It’s a PR disaster for Labour …People love wildlife much more than they like these numpties banging on about bats and newts.” Well said @chrisgpackham.bsky.social 👏😀
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Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham
Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’
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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is very sad and all because the previous council and small minded ass covering council officers had no imaginations for future development and reuse of a cemetery. They could have designed like in parts of Europe or New Orleans. Instead the UK's "greenest city" destroys its last farm.
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill contains very alarming 'cash to trash' proposals. 2nd Reading 24th March. Here's an email you can send to your MP mailchi.mp/471f11cf1274... #TeamBat #TeamNewt
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Dartington Trust is making a massive, historic mistake here. Please sign the petition - www.change.org/p/stop-the-d... - to let it know what you think. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pioneering forest garden in Devon at risk after landowner serves notice
Thousands sign petition to save garden ‘of vital importance’ near Totnes that teaches agroforestry methods
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Shock as row of massive trees cut down near Plymouth Hoe www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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Shock as row of massive trees cut down near Plymouth Hoe
Tree-felling branded 'hideous'
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Another 32 mature trees felled in Plymouth. 25 by the council & 7 by the MOD, with permission by the council This should be the last resort but it isn't There is no mitigation for these It's not good enough #mitigationcanjogon #plymouthcitycounciltreemassacre #februarysucks
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Otley tree felled BBC News - Oak tree felled after weeks of stand-offs www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Otley oak tree felled after weeks of protests
Council say tree needs to be cut down to allow repair work to be carried out on bridge footway.
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urbanparksgirl @urbanparksgirl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One way to integrate #greeninfrastructure into the urban environment. #urbangreenspace #streettrees
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Did you know that a “kissing canopy” is when trees above a street or sidewalk grow to touch overhead, creating a cool, shaded place? Despite it being colder and darker these days, let’s remember the beauty and value that #StreetTrees add to our cities, IF we design for them. #KissingCanopies
Huge kissing canopies in downtown Brisbane, AustraliaKissing canopies in VancouverKissing canopies in VancouverKissing canopy over the sidewalk in Vancouver
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Bristol Tree Forum @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Our updated analysis of the use of Biodiversity Gain Sites for offsetting habitats lost to development is as we feared. The trend is not encouraging; it looks like it will result in local nature, especially in urban settings, becoming hollowed out. bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/25/r....
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Replacing lost biodiversity: a missed opportunity for local offsetting?
When developers cannot meet their obligation to replace habitat lost within their development site, plus at least 10%, they may buy habitat units to offset this lost habitat. These habitat units ar…
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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The Stoke Lodge campaigners in Bristol are celebrating a successful bid to get four footpaths across the grounds officially recognised. There will, of course, be more appeals, hearings & judgements about this... www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Stoke Lodge Playing Fields campaigners celebrate footpath victory
A Bristol City Council committee voted unanimously to approve public rights of way over Cotham School's green space
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Plymouth City Council are at it again. 4 magnificent mature beech trees, felled to widen a road. #strawplymouth
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is so depressing www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
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Five trees on Centre have been felled
Only the stumps now remain of five trees on the Centre that have provided shelter for 25 years
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Latest News | Community Planning Alliance
January 22nd, 2025
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Stony Stratford residents upset at pruning of 130-year-old trees - BBC News
The work being carried out for Milton Keynes City Council is described as being "like a funeral".
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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 17/01/2025
I wish it sometimes just meant someone was getting out of prison #yellowribbon 🌳 @canopycoalition.bsky.social @brianmchugh.bsky.social @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
A yellow ribbon round an ole oak tree
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Residents in last ditch bid to save 100-year-old Sussex oak tree
A last ditch bid is being made to save an oak tree that has stood in a Sussex village for more than 100 years.
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Bristol Tree Forum's 2025 Tree Giveway is on! Order yours using the form in the article bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/09/t...
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The 2025 Annual Tree Giveaway – free saplings available for planting
Since 2020, Bristol Tree Forum has given away well over 10,000 tree saplings for tree lovers to plant around Bristol…. and beyond! Here is your chance to help us plant still more.
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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 04/01/2025
A Bridge Too Far 🌳 180 year old oak tree is in danger in Leeds, so a bridge can be repaired @canopycoalition.bsky.social @brianmchugh.bsky.social @twigsinhair.bsky.social @gwtreelover.bsky.social @treeside.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Otley Bridge repairs tree felling plan paused until new year
Two trees are due to be removed to allow Leeds City Council to install a crossing in Otley.
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2479343...
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Good decision in Southend. I can't even imagine how pants a load of artificial trees on a high street would look! The fact that it was even considered just goes to show that town planners and councillors need more training on the benefits real trees bring.
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Save the Otley Tittybottle Oak Tree
The residents of Otley are trying to halt the unnecessary felling of trees in Tittybottle park in Otley. One of the trees at risk is a 180 year old Oak tree, another is a large Tulip tree.  The t...
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urbanparksgirl @urbanparksgirl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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We rated the urban forests of 8 global cities – only Singapore passed the 30% canopy test
Have you heard of the 3+30+300 rule for urban forestry? See how Melbourne and Sydney compare to New York, Denver, Seattle, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam and Singapore on trees, canopy and park proximity.
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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 11/12/2024
The average life of a street tree is just #13years 😳 We need to talk about this @canopycoalition.bsky.social @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social @arbassociation.bsky.social
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
26 trees will be felled by Coventry council so they can install a cycle path 🤦 www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...
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Decision made to chop down trees for Cov cycleway but locals say 'shameful'
The council agreed the move but it caused upset among locals
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Bristol Tree Forum @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Someone there is who does not like a tree - in this case a 65 year old Weeping willow growing on the Metford Road Allotments. They have ring-barked it then tried to disguise their work by nailing the bark back on with copper nails. The police have been told. bristoltrees.space/Tree/tree/BC...
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Only just discovered that Google StreetView allows you to browse historical imagery which is great for getting portraits of trees lost or endangered by development - these from a large industrial-to-housing development in Fishponds, Bristol bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecod...
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Trees of Bristol
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Sheffield Tree Action Groups @saveshefftrees.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Sheffield Tree Action Group (STAG) has migrated to BlusSky. We'll leave the Twitter account up purely as an archive/artefact. #SaveSheffTrees
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Bristol Tree Forum @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The High Court has confirmed that the tree preservation regime and planning regime must work hand in hand and that developers relying on the planning permission exception to the tree preservation regime do not have free rein. Here is the Judgment: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...
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Goodenough Ring Solicitors @goodenoughringsols.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Hello Bluesky! We're an environmental, planning and public law firm taking a break from Twitter for the foreseeable. Previously @GoodenoughRing and @Susan_Ring on Twitter.
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really great opinion piece in the Plymouth Herald on the disappointing judgement over the tree felling case.
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Everywhere you turn trees are being felled and green spaces developed. Help residents defend their bit of green in #Plymouth! @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social westcountryvoices.co.uk/if-you-toler...
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If you tolerate this, then your green space will be next...
Plymouth City Council are still not listening to community concerns or valuing our trees. Eighteen months after the reputation-trashing act of eco vandalism carried out by Plymouth City Council (PCC),...
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Canopy @canopycoalition.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Welcome to Canopy! We are the national coalition of tree campaigners! An umbrella organisation for grassroots campaign groups and individuals. Sign up to add your voice Canopy.org.uk And get in touch to join our monthly online meetings. Hello@canopy.org.uk
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