• Save Our Seabirds from Danish Over-fishing
    Denmark recently upped its catch from 82,000 to 458,000 tons a year. Most of this becomes fishmeal to feed farmed salmon, mink and livestock. Meanwhile, puffins and kittiwakes can't feed their young. The RSPB recommends a total ban on fishing for sand eels.
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    Created by Patricia Masterson
  • Clean up Horseshoe Common and Pond
    Because a lot more children than people realise live close to horseshoe common. It’s a beautiful space that should be used as such. Being in the centre of such a largely used town such as Bournemouth and regarded as a ‘natural beauty spot’ that seems to have become the ‘natural dumping spot’
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    Created by Lauren Long
  • Re placement Gates
    Gates have been erected at Maudland Road thru to Seymore Road, South Shore, Blackpool, it is understood the gates were for the security of the rear of St Heliers Road. The placement of the gates has restricted access to and from Bancroft park and the South Shore area as well as easier access to bus routes on Lytham Road and the main gate of Blackpool Gateway Academy. These inconveniences have had a detrimental effect on the residents of St Heliers Road, Saville Road, Maudland Road, Baron Road, Stansfield Street and Central Drive and beyond. The problems cover a range of issues, namely lowered security, health issues, traffic problems and the general wellbeing of the community. Repositioning the access to this walk way will allow access to Bancroft park and South Shore and improve the wellbeing of many of the residents.
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    Created by Debby Godfrey-Brown
  • Get supermarkets to use paper bags instead of plastic!
    Im sure we've all heard of the huge inpact our use of plastic and especially single use plastics is having on our environment. Destroying natural habitats for many species of animals and microparticles getting into the food chain via fish. If this isn't enough you only have to look at the pictures of beaches littered by plastics that ends up in our oceans. We need to do our upmost to protect our planet and the species we have left. A simple way to do this would be for supermarkets to use paper bags or recycled cardboard boxes they have from packaging, in place of any type of plastic bags. In addition fruit and vegetables that are packaged in plastic bags and sold at a reduced cost, could easily be sold loose as a certain weight for the same cost, that customers can put into paper bags or there own tubs from home. Paper bags take a month to decompose as opposed to 5 -10 years of plastic counterparts. Get supermarkets to change now!
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    Created by Jemma Bird
  • Recycling facilities for all
    Recycling is an important factor in protecting our planet from the impact that we are having on it, it enables us to use products such as plastics and glass safe in the knowledge that it won't hinder our wildlife and areas of natural beauty. If individuals do not have access to recycling facilities and they do not drive they will be unable to recycle despite their convictions.
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    Created by Rachel Tarr
  • Ban plastic milk cartons
    It is important for the environment and wildlife. We need to reduce the amount of plastics being used and plastic milk cartons are being thrown away by households and companies on a daily basis.
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    Created by Tracy Baldwin
  • Get Pepsi to clean up their oceanic garbage
    The Ocean is heavily polluted with plastic micro particles created to a large extent by Pepsi tins and plastic bottles. The plastic is entering the Oceanic Marine Life food chain doing incalculable damage.
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    Created by Alan Byron
  • Reduce Single Use Plastic Packaging, particularly on fruit and vegetables
    Plastics are causing appalling damage to life in our oceans and contaminating soils and ecosystems.
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    Created by Eleanor Porter
  • Reuse of domestic plastic bottles
    These bottles are typically sturdy enough to be used many times and reusing a bottle ten times would reduce plastic consumption and waste by 90%. It would reduce transportation and consumer prices. The retail technology is readily available and the public are highly motivated to adopt such initiatives.
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    Created by Brian Mawdsley
  • Against Low Flying Snowdonia
    To protect the environment, protect animals and livestock from the stress and pollution caused by these aircraft and to promote our area as a clean, peaceful place to visit - something it at present is not. So we are trying to raise awareness to put a stop to the jets screaming overhead at VERY low levels in particular around the Rhydymain / Dolgellau / Bala Lake - areas which are known in MoD terms as the flight corridor/area of LFA7 / MACH loop. They cause emotional stress to sheep and cattle in the region and have been known to cause animals to miscarry and lose their young during birth. This in turn causes a loss of income to the farmers who struggle to earn a living in our region. They cause distress to locals and are a disaster waiting to happen with their highly dangerous ‘practice’ manoeuvres around the mountains, valleys and directly above our villages and have been recorded publicly well below their intended altitudes. An initial amusement to tourists and visitors to our region who often ask how we put up with it and we answer that the RAF have simply ridden roughshod over locals for so long they think they can get away with it. The aircraft noise depreciates the value of property as people often do not want to be treated to this level of noise pollution and rightly so. For the home owner it is a worry as the value of their house is on the decline as a direct result. In short, local people feel that they have been treated as if to be part of an airshow for years and it is time for the gates to close now. We were promised that “...things would be better...” with the closure of RAE Llanbedr which is now in private hands. If anything it has made zero difference and most days it is much worse for us. Join the campaign and help us make the area as peaceful to enjoy as it used to be.
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    Created by E Jones
  • Hedgerow Highways for Hedgehogs and Biodiversity
    We are losing our natural inheritance, though we hold the means in our hands to sustain it! We are biological and need to love our natural companions - whether plant or animal or insect. Parklands were planted to keep people sane and contented. Hedges and trees are a continuum that provide masses of habitat for all sorts of life. With life comes natural defences in biology against pests and fungi, our greatest enemies. We need to return nutrients and natural 'roughage' to the soil. Without constant additions to our 'good brown earth' we will have no topsoil to grow food in. Hedges provide leaves every year, to become soil, and their roots prevent washout of soil during rain. Trees and shrubs act as a natural water storage device and also maintain temperature. They may also have a good effect on climate as they suck up water and transpire it back out into the atmosphere. Monoculture, where one crop is grown, is bad for the kind of diversity that allows different plants and insects and animals to thrive. Pulling up hedge removes a natural protection to the crops and animals in the fields. Hedges keep growing and changing, and well laid hedges are effective animal barriers (for cows and sheep and horses). Hedgerows contain resources for arts and crafts, provide good air to breathe (make oxygen), act as a noise screen, and may contain any plants at all. Hawthorns were early used when hedges were first planted (enclosure). We need to revive the art of producing hedge seedlings cheaply and at home. Cuttings from all sorts of trees - nursery prices can be prohibitive. We are all personally affected by this issue as the huge rainstorms we have wash literally 10s of tons of topsoil off of our fields. We must protect our food production. Hedgerows will protect us - as well as wild life. If you look under a tree on a frosty day you will see there is some warmth there, and less white. If you look on a hot day you will see there is more green under the tree. They do maintain temperature. Each hedge will provide shade, and a windbreak. The Woodland trust has done some research to show that putting 10% of your land to use by trees increases the yield by more than that. I have a personal story about a hedge: A mysterious bird filled lane There used to be behind my house A magical shady lane Attracting bird of yellow hue Oh I would go there again All overhung with boughs of green And trees which overhung a stream The birds would flit from twig to branch And sing to me and flee We crossed the stream which babbled over the path And walked along the central ridge Where beasts had made a path depressed Into the central grass Huge hares and lovely deer would walk At dawn or dusk I'd see them Browsing in the verges when They had not yet seen me And round the corner up the hill The roses thrived and hawthorns too And yet more birds and pheasants bunched Against the hedgerow, rabbits hunched I knew where they all hid But one day came the farmers up With great machines and messed it up All gone are hedges birds and song By dismantling the lane. How many birds have been displaced Where now to propagate their race? I never see the yellow birds now Their food supply and shelter gone The great birds came and ate them up Why does this world do them such wrong? O woe to man who does not see That with them lies his destiny If we eradicate their feasts The land won't make us tasty treats How dull the mind that won't accept There's room for all, they must be kept They only ever took our waste And ate the insects that we hate They gave us pleasure like a taste Of all the glories of our God Who gave us these all for our good.
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    Created by Helen Field
  • SAVE PRINCES STREET GARDENS
    Handing over a Public Park to private development and the Ross Bandstand Trust
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    Created by Euan McGlynn