We are the eyes and ears of our community on tree issues. We are involved with practical projects such as planting and caring for trees .
Havant Borough, Hampshire ,UK
Joined February 2019
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Posting this again as it is nesting time. Dogs on leads near breeding areas - PLEASE 🙏🙏
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30,000 tonnes of waste does not appear overnight. We need the Environment Agency to fess up & tell us the dates that this site was reported to them & when they physically & legally shut it down.
There is a repeated pattern of the EA not acting to shut sites down & allowing tens of thousands of tonnes of waste to be dumped into nature. At Hoads Wood it took them 6 months to act, at Kidlington at least 3 months and at Stapleford Tawney on the River Roding it took a year & even then they only acted when I set up a petition & got the media involved.
Lawyers for Nature is calling for a simple duty on the EA to shut down all significant illegal waste sites in days, not months or years, & to remove any waste dumped after they are informed about a site. We think this is reasonable; if you agree, please sign & share this petition.
change.org/p/stop-illegal-wa…
We are investigating with @NaturalEngland the dumping of 30,000 tonnes of illegal waste on a protected area near Shawell, Leicestershire.
If you have information - call our hotline on 0800 80 70 60 or anonymously to Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111.
gov.uk/government/news/major…
ALT This illegal waste site is in Leicestershire and shows the waste buried under soil on a sunny day.
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
This little cactus looks like it’s creeping away after committing a crime
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When a 200-year-old oak tree collapsed in Coventry in October 2023, local residents Patrick and Melanie decided to sponsor a tree nearby to honour its legacy 🌳
By sponsoring a new oak tree, Patrick and Melanie hope to revive this vibrant ecosystem and bring life back to their street.
There are so many reasons to sponsor a street tree - what's yours?
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
Agreed possibly our most important plant providing late nectar & berries during the winter + cover for hibernating insects & essential for the Ivy Bees 🐝 which mimic Wasps
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The FREE plastic tree guard recycling hub is taking place this Thursday and Friday (5 & 6 June) at @EssexWildlife's Abbotts Hall Farm, Great Wigborough.
Around 5.6 tonnes of plastic was collected at the 2024 hub 👏.
ALT People at the Essex tree guard recycling hub 2023.
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
There are trees, and then there are trees so special that they stand on their very own podium. This one is a treasure in every season, but adorned with the freshest, brightest new spring leaves, shining in the early morning sun, it's hard to imagine it ever looking more perfect.
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
Exciting project at Stoke Park Farm to create newt habitats shorturl.at/eeWZq
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Natural England is delighted today to declare England’s newest National Nature Reserve: the Bradford Pennine Gateway NNR. 1200 hectares of priority habitats on the doorstep of tens of thousands of people, many of whom have limited access to high quality natural areas. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Book your place on a hedge laying training course now! We have 6 spaces left on our course running 25th and 26th November. £20 a place!
Book by visiting CPRE Hampshire's Eventbrite 🌿🪓
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
SUPER excited to share:
HedgeFest! a FREE festival *just* for hedges!
There'll be hedgelaying, trimming & coppicing demonstrations. Talks & workshops on choosing the right hedge trees, wildlife, assessing hedges, &the different funding in CS/SFIs &more
tickettailor.com/events/hedg…?
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
No sewage spills around Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight over the past 48 hours.
It’s raining later, fully expect this to change and potentially the waste of over 1 million people will discharge into the Solent
Will it be diluted? Yes
Will it have an ecological impact? Yes
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
Site maintenance continued today. Sections with the most failures tend to be the more sheltered areas where the sheep like to hang out. Once the stake breaks, the sheep can easily shift the tubes and start ring barking the base of the trees and eat any bits sticking out of them.
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A major critic of Natural England has quietly been appointed to Natural England's board by Ministers.
Landowner Mark Tufnell, ex-President of the Country Land & Business Association, called for "a full scale review of NE's remit".
How landed power works.
gov.uk/government/news/new-m…
Havant Borough Tree Wardens retweeted
This right here is the gold dust
Shoots from the very bottom give this hedge a whole new lifespan. This is how hedgelaying makes a hedge immortal!
&also why we'll lose hedges if we don't do this to each one every generation or so
These are the stems that'll get layed next time
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Can you help us monitor the potential spread of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle Ips typographus? 🔍
We're searching for volunteers who own or manage spruce woodland to install spruce bark beetle traps.
Find out more & volunteer ➡ ow.ly/m1BR50QYvLq
#ForestResearch
ALT Two Forestry Commission workers in green uniforms install a bark beetle trap in a woodland.