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• New tunnels allow turtles to migrate while keeping foxes at bay - video

  07-09-2024 22:00
  
  The problem: a fence that protects eastern quolls threatens long-necked turtles in Booderee national park at Jervis Bay. The solution? Turtle tunnels. Nine water-filled tunnels were built beneath a 82-hectare fence that surrounds the botanic gardens which keep out feral predators, providing a safe passage for the reptiles to go between watering holes. Over a period of 123 days, conservationists recorded 73 successful instances of the turtles using the tunnels‘A symbol of our nation’:
  
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• National Trust members to vote on making cafe food 50% plant-based

  07-09-2024 15:05
  
  Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises plans for 2.6m members to decide on increasing share of vegan and vegetarian optionsNational Trust members are being invited to vote on a plan to make 50% of the food in its cafes vegan and vegetarian as part of the charity’s commitment to reach net zero by 2030.Cafe menus at the trust’s 280 historic sites are already 40% plant-based. Now, the trust’s 2.6 million members will get to vote on whether the charity should gradually increase this figure to
  
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• The National Trust must again resist the group trying to turn grievances into policy | Rowan Moore

  07-09-2024 15:00
  Burning with unquenchable resentment, Restore Trust is making another attempt at taking over the institutionThe leaves are starting to change and there’s autumnal coolth in the air. Which means that the opaquely funded private organisation called Restore Trust is once again making its annual attempt to take over one of the country’s most successful and best-loved institutions, the National Trust. Burning with unquenchable resentment about a 2020 report that truthfully stated that Win
  
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• Boeing Starliner returns to Earth, but without astronauts

  07-09-2024 09:49 via bbc.com
  
  The troubled spacecraft returns empty to New Mexico from the International Space Station.
  
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• ‘Citizen scientists’ to check UK rivers for sewage and pollution

  07-09-2024 07:00
  
  Big River Watch scheme asks general public to help monitor state of rivers after years of deregulationRivers will be checked for sewage and other pollution by the general public this month in an attempt to assess the health of British waterways.Cuts to the UK regulators and a change in the law to allow water company self-monitoring of pollution in England mean there is little independent monitoring of the state of rivers in the UK. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: Fell running and circus skills at the Rusland Show | Andrea meanwell

  07-09-2024 06:30
  
  Rusland, Cumbria: We’ve sadly lost some committee members in recent times, but after nearly 140 years, the show must go onNext year, my husband will be the president of the 140th annual Rusland Valley Horticultural Show, so this year he must attend as vice-president and shadow the incumbent president to see what his duties will be. We attended the show last Saturday and, thankfully, it was a warm, dry day – not the torrential rain that we have had on recent Rusland Show days.Aft
  
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