Every five years (isn’t quinquennial a lovely word?) the UK statutory agencies review various lists of ‘protected’ species. A regular review is a good idea for any biological list, including lists of conservation priority. However, in this case, the recommendations have led to uproar as the statutory agencies have ganged up on a range of…
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Guest blog – Nature conservation and climate change: are we doing enough? by Olly Watts
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Olly Watts has been with the RSPB for more than 25 years, involved with how climate change affects nature, and what the nature conservation should do about that, for much of that time. He’s also been involved with peatland conservation for many years and is eagerly awaiting the end to using peat in our gardens….
Badger demo in Buxton on Sunday, 11am – 2pm
Sylvans Car Park, 11am
Sunday book review – The Screaming Sky by Charles Foster
This is a brilliant book – it goes straight into my shortlist of Books of the Year for this blog. Any book that starts with the author eating snake and quaffing beer in Madagascar is a bit special. The author states that he is obsessed by Swifts, but actually, if he is, he hides it…
Sunday book review – Swifts and Us by Sarah Gibson
This is a good book about Swifts – and those birds are flying about outside as I write this review. But then, they are always flying about somewhere, as the title of the book, and the contents of the book, make clear. This is a bird which is on the wing most of its life,…