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Vanessa Rowlands

@vanessarowlands.bsky.social
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Focus local with actions that positively impact on nature, climate & communities Be kind to yourself💚 🌱Chair of South Downs National Park Authority 🌱Chair National Parks England🌱Cuckmere Valley all views my own, obvs #BeCurious #Connection

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Rich Tea @richtea1982.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I've told everyone I'm a Traitor by mistake!" #celebritytraitors
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Awful night for Reform. Smashed in Makerfield and Tories took Aberdeen South. Two party politics reasserting itself and they might not even be one of them. Time for the press to stop accepting inevitability of PM Farage. After Makerfield that will be tough.
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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Fund. Local. Government. Everything will get a bit better. More good local jobs. Better high streets. Cleaner neighbourhoods. Less pressure on the NHS. Visible signs of renewal. For buttons.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Anyway Starmer can’t resign as we’ve got too many podcasters already
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.maptap.gg May 11 99🎯 98🔥 95🏅 97🔥 79🫢 Final score: 915
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Cuckmere Valley looking 👌🧡 @southdownsnp.bsky.social #SouthDowns
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Siôn McGeever @sionmcgeever.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
River Medway with setting sun reflected on a calm early May evening. Two cuckoos calling (no sound, imagine it yourself). One fish rising next to the sun's  reflection.
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spotted Orchid on woodland edge #WildflowerHour
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Cowslips in Cuckmere Valley today 💛 #WildflowerHour
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/03/2026
Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
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Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense? ://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1
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Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances
Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
noooooooooo #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
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Kate Ashbrook @campaignerkate.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Great 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...
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There’s hope for the future
On 16 December, the 76th anniversary of the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, the Campaign for National Parks (CNP) culminated its brilliant New Perspectives project with a cel…
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🐟🌲💧- 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.
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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
And this is begorw longer-term threat from sea level rise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Latest 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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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
you muppets!!!! #CelebrityTraitors
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
David has been so bad the whole way through this - Alan to win! #celebrityTraitors
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Nick you were Joe’s hundy !!!
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
you idiots!!!! #celebritytraitors
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Not Often Heard @notoftenheard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I’ve found my new Doctor #celebritytraitors
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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🌿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
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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It'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...
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Plans to weaken Protected Landscapes Duty quietly dropped
Westminster government published its list of amendments for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and there are no proposals to weaken protections for National Parks.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Ed Miliband is entirely right here. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Incredibly 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.
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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Areas where peatland was restored and rewetted were notably more resilient to the fires".
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Stork’s Bill 🩷 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We 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!
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14/04/2025
Politicians 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...
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Business is not against net zero
Politicians like Kemi Badenoch say the clean energy transition is impossible—but the private sector understands it’s the only way to lower prices
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Bravo 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”
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What went right this week: the good news that matters
The world got a new national park city, the ‘Oscars of science’ revealed its winners, and medical history was made, plus more good news
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
ah lads #RaceAcrossTheWorld is back on BBC1 at 9pm Wednesday 23rd April
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Another England, my interview with Caroline Lucas soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/a...
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Another England Caroline Lucas in Conversation with Corinne Fowler
The School of Arts, Media and Communications at the University of Leicester brings together a number of departments and specialist centres into a community of academic and professional staff, who are
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Nations 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/...
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Poor countries say rich world betraying them over climate pledges on shipping
Proposal that ships pay levy on emissions to fund climate action in poor countries opposed by powerful economies
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tickets selling fast - see me at the Linnean on Thursday talking about adapting conservation to address the uncertainties around future climate change
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Cowslips and bees in Sussex today 💛🐝 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Funding used for Nature Based solutions = 💚🌟🥳
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Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
I 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...
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How to get everyone to care about a green economy
How do you get the environment to the top of everyone's priority list? You can't, says climate advocate Angela Francis -- but you can get them to care about improving their lives. In this pragmatic ta...
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Great news! Congratulations @tonyjuniper.bsky.social on being reappointed as Chair of @naturalengland.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Tony Juniper CBE reappointed to continue protecting nature and boosting growth as Natural England Chair
His reappointment comes as Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, is rewiring and reforming Defra and its arm's-length bodies to unlock growth under the Plan for Change
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In 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:
Stats: only 54% of british men between the age of 15 and 24 believe women are just as capable as men - a drop from 82% in 2019.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
As 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...
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Busy night for the toads and newts. Please drive with care in migration areas @sussextw.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
People suffering most from climate crisis unable to cope – activist www.channel4.com/news/people-...
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People suffering most from climate crisis unable to cope – activist
The best way to solve the environmental crisis is to tackle the problem of inequality - that's the argument made by Tony Juniper in his new book ‘Just Earth’.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Costa 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...
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Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Can 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...
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Vanessa Rowlands @vanessarowlands.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Another newt tonight ! @southdownsnp.bsky.social #ToadsOnRoads #NewtsOnRoads #SouthDowns
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