Standing up for Nature
I asked you a variety of questions about the book reviews on this blog and these were your responses. From the results below I take it that you generally like the reviews, find them useful and they steer your purchasing decisions a bit – at least a bit. Q1: My blog, Standing up for Nature,…
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Many thanks to over 200 of you who have taken a minute (that is all it takes) to tell me what you think of book reviews that are published here. As with almost all polls/surveys here. The first 10 responses pretty much tell me what the overall message will be. So I’ll close this poll…
Alistair Gammell worked for RSPB for 40 years and was closely involved in the drafting of the Birds and Habitats Directives and for growing RSPB’s international work. He was RSPB’s first International Director and retired from RSPB in 2009. He then worked to successfully establish large scale fully protected marine reserves in the seas around…
Nobody really has a clue what’s happening to farming over the next few years, and that obviously includes DEFRA. This document, according to ministers, represents the most fundamental shift in farming policy for over 50 years (but the details are so unclear it would be difficult to write them on the side of a barn,…
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I mention this petition in my Birdwatch column this month. If you want to act like a global citizen then have a look and see whether you feel like signing too, please – click here – many thanks!
The power of birds of prey is illustrated well in this little article about what you might see in Yorkshire – 6 of the 14 species are raptors. Of course, the article does not say that North Yorkshire is known as the UK capital of illegal raptor persecution! The Red Kite above (ahem) is joined…
I got an email from WWT which pointed me towards this very fuzzy refocus document. There’s a lot about how great WWT is, how it is going to do loads of good things for wildlife but embedded in here is some very vague news about redundancies. As an organisation which funds conservation through duck zoos…
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