Standing up for Nature
Chris Packham interviews Paul Irving – an experienced raptor worker in the north of England. To add your name to the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting please sign here.
I spent Thursday evening, Friday and Saturday morning with a disparate bunch of supporters and opponents to banning driven grouse shooting at the Sheffield conference on raptors, peatlands and the uplands. It was valuable in all sorts of ways, not least in meeting some blog readers and supporters whom I rarely see (for some of…
Thank you for your entries to this blog’s writing competition. Entries closed at midnight last night and the last entry got in under the wire with 10 minutes to go. You submitted 47 entries (from 43 people). These were in four categories of ‘wildlife and the arts’ (8 entries), ‘wildlife and politics’ (19 entries), ‘international’…
I’ve reviewed Spring and Summer here, and liked them, so it won’t be a surprise that I enjoyed Autumn too. The book follows the same model as the earlier two seasons – an anthology of writings from famous writers mixed in with offerings from current writers. It’s still a good model and worked as well…
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Tim writes: Kittlitz’s Murrelet is one of the least-known auk species on the planet being only found off Alaska and Eastern Siberia and is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. This means there is an extremely high risk this species will become extinct in the wild. Numbers are declining at a startling rate throughout…
It was an easy win – a future partial ban on microbeads – but nonetheless it is very welcome. And understandably Defra has made quite a lot of it – wouldn’t anyone? Have you noticed that the @DefraGovUK Twitter stream has had a definite upgrade – at least in terms of presentation. Defra’s Twitter stream…
I’ll be in Sheffield tomorrow and Saturday at the conference where I expect to have a lovely time amongst GWCT, Moorland Association, BASC and Scottish Land and Estates staff. In case they’ve missed it, here is how the constituencies with over 300 signatures stand: Calder Valley 828 High Peak 549 Bristol West 503 Ross, Skye…
I’ve been wondering which members of parliament are likely to speak in favour of driven grouse shooting in the debate on the subject. Their constituents might well want to give them some Firm Briefing on the facts of the matter and to give them the views of the people who elected them. The All-Party Parliamentary…