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After one month
It’s exactly a month since this e-petition launched and we are over 106,000 signatures. That’s amazing! Here’s the ever-growing list of constituencies with more than 200 signatures already (as of this morning): Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP (Con), 491 signatures Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP (SNP), 489 signatures High Peak, Ruth George…
Guest blog – Sorry Tony, you cannot spin this into a good news story for Natural England by Dominic Woodfield
Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is a life-long birder, a specialist in botany, habitat restoration and creation and in protected fauna including bats, herpetofauna and other species. He is also a highly experienced practitioner in Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations…
Opportunity to change the shape of general licences
Defra is consulting the public, fairly properly, on general licences. But don’t worry, you have plenty of time to think about it. Today, Defra issued this consultation which asks for views and evidence – the latter is quite important. This survey forms part of the process of consulting and engaging with stakeholders for the 2019…
Wild Justice’s success on gamebird releases – what they say so far
Yesterday Defra announced that they would be consulting on how to assess the impacts of releases of non-native gamebirds on sites of high conservation importance in response to Wild Justice’s legal challenge – see here. Wild Justice’s view on Defra’s decision – see here. Inaccurate coverage in the Daily Telegraph (maybe it would help them…