Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

POSTS ARCHIVE

Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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NATURE

Call on your councillors to double tree cover

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After centuries of clearing forests, woodlands now only cover 13% of the UK – less than half the European average. This has to change.

Join City of Trees and Friends of the Earth to plant 500 trees in Sunnybank Park - Sunday 24th November [NOW FULLY BOOKED].

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Manchester Friends of the Earth are joining forces with City of Trees to plant 500 trees in Sunnybank Park during National Tree Week (23rd November - 1st December)

Take action for insects (The Wildlife Trusts)

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Insects are dying out up to 8 times faster than larger animals says a new report showing the devasting and serious decline in insect populations happening right now across Britain.

Ask the UK Government to protect us from pesticide cocktails (Pesticide Action Network)

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UK citizens and the natural environment are being exposed to potentially harmful mixtures of pesticides. These mixtures appear in our food, water and soil and can affect the health of both humans and wildlife. There is a growing body of evidence that pesticides can become more harmful when combined, a phenomenon known as the ‘cocktail effect’.

Tell the UK government to double tree cover

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Doubling our tree cover could remove 10% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions annually. That’s why we’re petitioning the UK government to make a lasting commitment to bring back our lost trees. Do you have a minute to add your name?

Time is running out. Save ancient woodlands from HS2 (Woodland Trust)

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HS2 is set to destroy swathes of ancient woodland as the controversial rail route forces its way through our countryside. Damaging preparatory work is happening right now, even as rising costs and an upcoming government review calls the future of the project into question.

My Wild City survey: have your say for wildlife in Manchester

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If you live, work, study or volunteer in Manchester, we want to hear from you. By taking a few minutes to fill in this short survey you will be helping to shape the way we protect wildlife and contributing to the new 10-year vision for biodiversity in Manchester.

Ask your Council to become pesticide-free.

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In March 2019, Trafford Council agreed to phase out the use of all pesticides and weed killers on council land and to cut out the use of glyphosate based treatments in all council operations in one year.

Tell the European Commission: No Palm Oil in my Tank!

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Palm oil expansion is increasing deforestation, ravaging some of the planet’s remaining rainforests, home to the endangered Orangutans.

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