From the heather and grass burning code: Areas within 5 metres of watercourses. There can be an increased risk of soil erosion close to watercourses (e.g. once vegetation has been removed by burning, soil could be washed into a watercourse by rainwater, or the watercourse might flow with sufficient force that its banks could…
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Your favourite e-petitions – update
End the badger cull instead of expanding to new areas – Simon King – 70,315 signatures (closes 25 February) Introduce a moratorium on the hunting critically declining wading birds – Chris Packham – 23,784 signatures (closes 23 March) Develop a GCSE in natural history – Mary Colwell – 2,545 signatures after 2 days (closes…
Time for tidal in the Severn Estuary?
The Hendry review is due to be published tomorrow and is expected to recommend the go-ahead for a tidal lagoon project in Swansea Bay. This has been the subject of a variety of posts on this blog: Guest blog – Time for tidal power by Sian John, 15 July 2016; NGO reaction to Swansea Bay…
Guest blog – England’s Serengeti? by Steve Jones
Steve Jones has worked in conservation in the UK and overseas for two decades, promoting wildlife-friendly farming and designated site conservation in the UK, and large mammal conservation in the tropics. He writes on wildlife-friendly farming, land sparing and rewilding at https://naturalareasblog.wordpress.com Making space for wild nature in England’s wheat…
Monbiot, Batters on the Vine
I very rarely listen to Radio2 – I am so firmly a Radio4 stick-in-the-mud – so I am grateful to a reader of this blog for pointing me in the direction of the Jeremy Vine show this lunch time (although I feel rather bad about temporarily deserting Martha Kearney) where there was what passes for…