Standing up for Nature
I’m a big fan of Peter Marren’s writing – his Rainbow Dust was (and is) a lovely book which I listed as my #2 book of the year for 2015. Peter has also written a number of Guest Blogs here and I hope he will write some more. This book is one that the author…
The author and readers of this blog are pretty pro-RSPB people as supported by the graph above where most of us voted strongly in favour of believing the RSPB over the Countryside Alliance – this isn’t surprising, and is very wise of us, but it is a very strong preference. Not surprisingly, we also oppose…
Readers of this blog are pretty convinced that climate change is happening (graph above), that it is caused by human activities (graph below)… …that it is a problem for us (below)… …but less confident that we can do much about it (below)… This is not surprising.
I have been involved with monitoring and protecting raptors, in particular the Peregrine beginning 1967, when the North West Raptor Group was established, then only 7 active territories remained in the North West England. In the 1980s I located the first ground nesting pair of Peregrines close to the A6 on Shap. Field work began…