1/5: Thread: https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">Just catching up on the absolutely damning & absolutely accurate assessment of the state of the UK& #39;s finest sites for nature - #SSSIs - and the regulators that are meant to protect them by @charlottebsmith with Emma Rose of @Unchecked_UK on tonight& #39;s @BBCCountryfile

2/5: This highlight& #39;s the gaping chasm between @BorisJohnson& #39;s rhetoric on ambition for nature & the shocking reality. Swinging cuts to the budgets & staff of @NaturalEngland (who failed to field a spokesman??) and of @EnvAgency

3/5: A failure to assess condition of our most important sites (70% of England& #39;s #SSSIs not monitored in the last 6 yrs (54% the last time @CarolineLucas asked...), @NatResWales confirm they have no idea about the state of their #SSSIs & no response at all from @nieaevents... !!

4/5: Also lack of use of prosecution & enforcement powers & concerns re the failure to establish environmental watchdogs for a post Brexit UK - the promised new Office for Environmental Protection in England is looking way more lapdoghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐩" title="Pudel" aria-label="Emoji: Pudel"> than watchdoghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐺" title="Wolfsgesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wolfsgesicht">! @DefraGovUK @GreenerUK_

5/5: No surprises here - see for example the RSPB& #39;s #LostDecade for Nature report http://ww2.rspb.org.uk/Images/A%20LOST%20DECADE%20FOR%20NATURE_tcm9-481563.pdf">https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/Images/A%... but so depressing and so utterly unacceptable! Great to see my old @NaturalEngland colleague Mike Quigley telling it like it is - and what it is is completely unacceptable