Heather burning in England is legal from 1 October to 15 April (far too late in my view) in upland areas – see rules here. It is the responsibility of local authorities to measure air quality – if I lived in an area where heather burning were common then I would ask the local authority…
Year: 2017
Nature’s Way – the environment for success
This report from WWT is good – it’s one of the best I’ve seen from them and one of the best I’ve seen from a wildlife NGO for a while. What’s good about it? Well, it is a bit more intellectually challenging than most of the recent NGO reports and it also less politically…
Guest blog – it’s #TimeToBeHeard by Richard Benwell
Richard has worked in the Westminster parliament as a researcher in the House of Lords and as a Senior Clerk for the Energy and Climate Change Committee. He is now Head of Government Affairs at WWT after spending a couple of years as a Parliamentary Officer at the RSPB. He wrote a previous guest…
A view from the Peak District
Please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
Good start!
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has got off to a very good start. It’s already over 6500 signatures and there are only (at the time of writing yesterday) five constituencies (out of c650) which have no signatures; three in Northern Ireland and two in London – we’ve seen this pattern before….