Year: 2017

RSPB Scotland comment on Government response to environmental justice consultation Commenting on the publication today of the Scottish Government’s response to its consultation on environmental justice, Lloyd Austin, RSPB Scotland’s Head of Conservation Policy, said: “RSPB Scotland has long argued for improvements to Scotland’s environmental justice systems, welcomed the debate sparked by the Scottish Government’s…

Natural England is a failing organisation. It is no longer a champion for the natural environment and it is no longer a leader in environmental thinking and it is no longer doing its job. The statutory nature conservation agency in England is now highly politicised (ghastly word for a ghastly impact) and no longer trusted…

Yesterday I headed up the M6 to attend a trial in Preston magistrates courts.  Appropriately enough, at Keele Services, a Peregrine flew over as I was returning to the car. The defendant, James Hartley, 34, denied a number of offences against Peregrine Falcons on the Bleasdale Estate, Bowland, Lancashire in April 2016.  These included the alleged…

The ivy in the garden is looking good and buzzing with Ivy Bees. And there have been up to seven splendid Red Admirals on it in the past few days.      

Interesting – mentions of climate change near the beginning, of fox hunting too and a passage on a green economy towards the end.  Not bad, but if Labour were moving on on environmental issues then maybe a quick mention of the Badger cull would have been the easiest way to signal it.  Opportunity missed ….