Standing up for Nature
Do you remember being offered the chance to guess the total that we would reach by midnight on the 31 July – that’s Sunday? Here are the guesses (closest gets a signed copy of the new paperback edition of Inglorious): 51495 Robert Kingsbury-Barker 51798 Roger Little 53471 Sue 54356 Peter Swallow 54731 notso 55333 Steven…
Apologies to anyone for whom this post is not displaying perfectly – I’ve tried to fix it and that’s the best I can do. Sorry! Here’s the link to this letter on Chris Packham’s website. Steve Rowe CEO Marks and Spencer Group plc London W2 1NW Dear Marks & Spencer I have a few questions…
Further to my earlier blog about hedge-cutting dates – it seems that I was foolish not to follow my erstwhile rule of thumb which is that if the NFU says something then it is likely to be wrong. My attention has been drawn (by my olders and betters – though not by the author of…
‘Don’t ignore the science on lead’ is the title of a BASC statement that ignores the science on lead. It is quite difficult to make it up. BASC’s Dr Matt Ellis, said: ‘BASC’s policy has always been no sound evidence, no change. There is no scientific evidence of population-level impacts outside of wetlands and we…
The NFU is lobbying hard to be able to cut hedgerows a month earlier than is currently allowed. This is being billed as an unfair restriction on farmers imposed because of EU legislation. I’m not quite sure about that – do any readers of this blog know whether that is actually true? Is this the…