As the chair of trustees, I’m proud of the work that World Land Trust staff and our partners across the world have done in very difficult circumstances this year, and also grateful to our donors for loyal and generous support.
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Brighton’s Big Secret
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I found this video fascinating. It’s 20min but it is fascinating and reveals so many natural riches on Brighton’s doorstep. It’s an interesting commentary too. I will return to this.
This week I am mostly…
This week I am mostly: doing things for the World Land Trust doing things for Wild Justice wondering whether our modest plans for seeing family over Christmas will be possible, and sensible. wondering when the Brexit deal will be done – or should that be undone?
Bird/poultry flu another update
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There’s another case of bird/poultry flu in captive birds and poultry announced today: And that site is somewhere under the blue splodge on the Derbyshire, Staffs and Leics border on the map below.
Bird/poultry flu update
And here, after minutes of playing around with maps, are the counties in which there have been records of wild birds with positive H5N8 records (pink) and the rough locations (blue sprayed areas) of outbreaks in captive poultry/birds. I reckon there are more pink-shaded counties to come and quite possibly a lot more blue splodges.
RSPB/Suffolk Wildlife Trust press release – Sizewell
Government talks with EDF over Sizewell in stark contrast to PM’s environment pledge Boris Johnson will fail in his first major domestic test over its declared commitment to the environment if talks with EDF to build the Sizewell C power station go ahead. If allowed to go ahead Sizewell C could have devastating consequences for nature. The build could destroy…
Never, ever, trust the NFU
I think it is over 20 years since I stopped trusting the NFU at all. I have quite liked some of the leading NFU characters over that time but I haven’t respected the organisation and its grip on the truth in that time. On Friday George Monbiot exposed an example that shows you the type…
Tim Melling – Roe Deer
Tim writes: I spend lots of time trying to capture birds in flight but it isn’t often I manage to capture an airborne mammal, in this case a Roe buck. Though I suspect that right front hoof may be touching so not really airborne. I took this on 1st May not far from my house. …
The Favourite River Lugg
The River Lugg has been in the news a lot recently due to the management of the river and of some of the surrounding farmland by a local farmer (see here, here and here). More recently the farmer’s account of events has emerged (click here, here) and we’ll have to wait and see how this…