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The line-up for the Birders’ Choice Guano Award for Environmental Harm is a strong field: litter bugs HS2 Boris Johnson Trump administration Water companies Well, I found this quite easy – how about you? Water companies aren’t all bad, litter is annoying but its apparent resurgence in lockdown was more an eye-opener of the fact…

A week tomorrow the Wild Justice judicial review of the legality of releasing tens of millions of non-native gamebirds, without ensuring that those releases will not damage sites of conservation importance, will take place. The legal arguments are best left to lawyers but the science is open to anyone to inspect and comment upon. Here…

Have you signed Marcus Rashford’s petition on free school meals? I have, even though I am quite persuaded by the argument that there are better ways to spend the money to help the poor at this time. But it’s a relatively small amount of money and even if some of it was wasted it’s a…

Here’s an opportunity to earn £50,000+ per annum leading an organisation with 1700 members which is the ‘voice for songbirds’. Membership is £20 per annum and of that almost £10 goes to the research fund. So membership subscriptions seem to fund only a third of the CEO salary at most. According to the Charity Commission…

The troubles of the sole Fin whaling company in Iceland, Hvalur hf, continue as last week they lost a legal case and have been ordered to pay wages owed to the amount of 100.000.000kr, more than £540,000. Hvalur hf may well appeal. And just because I can, I’ll link to this video of my favourite…