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How Nature Has Reclaimed the Streets of Brighton After Woke Council’s ‘Rewilding’ Plan

Brighton residents are being asked to weed their own roads due to a 2019 herbicide ban by the former Green-led council, leading to overgrown pathways and safety hazards.
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Virtue-Signalling Shooting Ban on Moorland Owned by Woke Water Company Will be an Environmental Disaster

United Utilities, the country's largest corporate land owner, has announced a ban on shooting just days before the start of the season. Gamekeepers and farmers warn it will have a devastating impact on the environment.
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Save Our Grasslands, Not Your Egos, Tree-Planting Celebrities Told

Virtue-signalling celebrities are planting too many trees in a misguided effort to 'rewild' their estates. Minette Batters, the President of the National Farmers Union, says they should be growing more grass instead.
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In the Eye of the Eagle: From Strict Catholic School to Adventures in Rainforests

A slow, tacking flight: float then flap. Then a pirouette and it has swung on to a different tack, following another seam through the moor as if it is tracking a scent. It is like a disembodied spirit searching for its host…” — description of the strongest of all harriers, the goshawk, by James Macdonald Lockhart in his book, Raptor: A Journey Through Birds

We’re watching a female red-tail hawk rejecting the smaller male’s romantic overtures barely 50 yards overhead.