A sad thread. This is the road the sanctuary is on. Today. Smashed. What date is it? August 10th. It’s illegal (never mind immoral) to do this between the 1st of March & the 31st of August. The @npwsBioData are tasked with enforcing this. They don’t. They facilitate it. 1/8

The @npwsBioData ranger was up on this road just recently. He could have prevented this. He chose not to. It’s #NationalHeritageWeek in Ireland from the 12th of August. The Heritage Council @HeritageHubIR will throw funding around to the usual safe suspects all over the… 2/8

@npwsBioData …place to ‘celebrate’ our heritage. It’s bullshit. Will they celebrate this? Even acknowledge it? No they’ll ignore it. They’ll take the photo ops and grease their pockets and many other pockets as they pass by this, their arrogant heads high. Shameless but shameful. 3/8

@npwsBioData Whist #trees are assaulted. Nesting #birds murdered. Fledglings left homeless. Traumatised. #Wildflowers and #forage denied to what’s left of our #insects. What’s left of #nature. #Bees. To watch it up close and understand it fucking hurts. Hurts. The smiles. The pretence. 4/8

@npwsBioData The denialism. The cronyism. The photo ops. The phoney self important, self serving bastards. To quote Mark Twain. ‘Nature knows no indecencies: man invents them.’ And indecent they are. This goes on year in, year out. Without fail. They are the #naturecrisis. 5/8

@npwsBioData What happens in the countryside stays in the countryside is the prevailing attitude. Except it doesn’t. This comes home to roost for everyone no matter where you reside. When #nature is on her knees you help her up. You don’t start unzipping your trousers. 6/8

@npwsBioData So put it away you incompetent dangerous clowns and help her up. Before it’s too late. If you find this coarse so be it. It’s an #honest reaction to what I encounter. Coarse deeds sometimes require coarse language to accurately portray. I don’t like to be that guy. 7/8

@npwsBioData I like bringing you the good stuff. The inspirational stuff. The #bees on #flowers stuff. The facts. But we cannot, must not, ignore this, allow this, any longer. It does not have to be this way. It does not have to be this way. No matter what the say. And they will say. 8/8

@npwsBioData Correction: Post 2/8 @HeritageHubIRE To make sure they get their full credit. Thanks folks.

@npwsBioData This is disgraceful and happens every year. Birds still nesting, fledglings still being fed. Insect habitats lost. Ireland has to be the worst country in EU for decimating nature.@pippa_hackett @EamonRyan When will real penalties be enforced on the destroyers?

@npwsBioData It lasted 2 weeks longer than the hedgerow near us. Last year they butchered it in September and took all the blackberries. This year they listened to feedback and did it 6 weeks earlier. No time for blackberries to bloom (correct word?) and the birds have gone