Kendra Ullyart - Campaigner

26/04/2023

GONE 14 Skylarks GONE 4 Gray partridge GONE 106 individual red list birds . Houses come before nature every time and it makes my blood boil. This is a 27 acre farm site now an allocated housing site on the local plan. It will be difficult to stop them building the 1500 houses planned over two sites . The bird numbers are for half of the planned area LL/00632/OUTE find it on Darlington borough councils planning portal . This info is in appendix G - of the Ecology Appraisal neatly tucked out of the way

12/04/2023

😍OH JOY 40 sandmartins are back at Broken Scar

12/04/2023

Growing native trees for Darlington from seed I collected last year at harvest time. I’m looking for people who can take a tray of trees once they are ready and be tree guardians . Send me a message if you could take one or more trays . I’m looking for 80 people !

20/03/2023

15/03/2023

How clean is the Tees? I’ve watched the excellent Paul Whitehouse programmes on the health of our waterways due to sewage, chemical and plastic pollution and wonder how our River Tees is fairing. Do you know? I’m interested to hear.

13/03/2023

Standing up for Great Crested Newt habitat in a designated wildlife site Blackwell Historic Parkland

Protesters fear alleged “destructive digger activity” at a protected wildlife site in historic parkland could impact endangered species.

12/03/2023

The whole sad episode of the crustacean deaths and the dredging of toxic waste , creating a dead zone right along our coastline is being discussed.

In the autumn of 2021, a large number of dying and distressed crabs were washed ashore along the coastlines of County Durham and Teesside. Initially dismissed as a toxic algal bloom, a re-investigation suggested more complex causes. At the time of writing, it remains unclear whether the deaths were....

09/03/2023

❌ Digger activity has destroyed significant habitat at the designated wildlife site at Blackwell Historic Park. Join the quick photo shoot protest ! Meet at the stone gates 1pm Sat 11th Blackwell lane.

This is area was designated as a wildlife site at the local plan hearings because of its proximity to the Great Crested Newts and bat populations.

The destructive digger activity at the back of the Blackwell hotel will have disrupted hibernating and protected species just ahead of the bird nesting season cut off on the 1st March

Locals reported the issue to DBC planning and estates dept who reportedly visited the site . We wait for a formal response and a protected future for this designated wildlife site

07/08/2022

Interesting that the RSPB is calling for “IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION' into the mass die off of thousands of crabs and a “ HALTING “of the planned dredging of the Tees” whilst Ben Houchen Tees Valley Mayor in a recent statement is still holding onto the the old algae bloom theory!

The statement read “RSPB strongly recommends that Defra reopens their investigation into these die-offs with immediate effect and further, adopts a responsible approach by halting dredging of the Tees until a full scientific analysis can rule it out as a contributory factor,” the RSPB statement added.

31/07/2022

🔎🔎🔎THE CRISIS CONTINUES Call the helpline if you come across dead birds but don’t touch . Defra helpline on 03459 33 55 77.

“Katie-Jo Luxton, the RSPB’s director of conservation said “Our seabird populations have halved since the 1980s. Now, a highly mutable and deadly new form of avian influenza, which originated in poultry, is killing our wild seabirds in large numbers.”