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Let’s try this and see what happens. Use this post to comment on any events of the last week or so. It would make sense to start your comment with a heading but after that, whatever you like provided it is fair comment and in good taste.

This blog, Standing up for Nature, is run by Mark Avery and has provided content for over a decade: 8,443 posts so far and 8.2m pageviews. From now on, 21 April 2021, this blog will post only at weekends with authored posts by Mark Avery, guest blogs and book reviews. All existing content will remain….

If driven grouse shooting had never existed we would never invent it now – and that is the test of whether it should remain as a blot on the landscape. It shouldn’t. Just because it has been that blot for c150 years doesn’t mean it should remain as such any longer. This blog has played…

Tim writes: I took this photo in mid-October while out on the Peak District Moors.  It was standing on a drystone wall and was just catching the first rays of the early morning sun.  This photo shows the feathered legs and feet which gives rise to its scientific name Lagopus, meaning hare-footed.  There are a…

For a decade this blog has brought you news, views and action daily. Tomorrow there will no new post, but I will post at weekends in a much reduced, shall we say streamlined, manner. On 21 October I’ll tell you what happens next… News: news can be defined as ‘interesting stuff that happened recently’ –…