Standing up for Nature
This is the tale of a wild goose chase although the chase isn’t that wild as it is mostly carried out on an old red bicycle (I liked hearing about the bicycle) and not all of the geese are completely wild either. The author cycles around north Norfolk during the winter and describes his encounters…
I’ve been reading the 15 February copy of Country Life. It’s a publication I look at a few times a year just to keep in touch with what’s really going on in the countryside. It took me a while to decide whether I preferred the £19m (guide offer) c7-acre pad in Jersey or the 26.59…
Sent to ProtectedSites@naturalengland.org.uk Dear Natural England I live in Northamptonshire and am interested in the status of several local SSSIs, all of which I have visited. I have looked them up on your rather excellent website https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteSearch.aspx and note that you invite users of the website to contact you for more information. So, that’s what…
I can see a Red Kite from my Northamptonshire home every day of the year. I often pause to look at them even though I see them more often than I see a Buzzard or a Kestrel. I pause because they are just wonderful birds but also because they are a conservation success story –…
I complained to Defra about the fact that they took over 5 months to reply to an enquiry from my MP- see here. I received this reply this week: Dear Dr Avery, Thank you for your email of 25 January, regarding your complaint about the time taken to respond to your MP, Tom Pursglove, who…