Tim Melling – Nightjar

Tim writes: Like Desert Island Discs, if I had to choose just eight species of bird to be stranded on a desert island with, Nightjar would definitely be on the list.  It took me ages but I finally succeeded in finding a nest of my local Nightjars in the Peak District moors.  This is quite…

British Beavers Back to stay

Eurasian Beavers living in northern Britain, Scotland actually, are to be given legal protection so that they can spread their range naturally. This is a big step forward for rewilding proponents and anti-de-wilding proponents but I forecast trouble ahead. Already the NFUS is up in arms about this and has said that proper management of…

Guest blog – What we do at Knepp by Charlie Burrell

  Charlie Burrell inherited Knepp Estate, a 3,500 acre dairy and arable farm in West Sussex in the 1980s. After farming intensively and unprofitably on the heavy clay for 17 years, in 2000 he embarked on a rewilding project based on a system of naturalistic grazing. It is the largest such project in lowland Britain…

Many BASC members find their social life unimproved by shooting.

BASC carried out a survey of ‘the public’ and asked 1457 people some questions back in March 2015. However, the public were 84% BASC members and 16% non-members. Only 77% of respondents (remember 84% were BASC members) said their social life would be poorer without shooting.  Clearly at least 8.3% of BASC members would have…