Standing up for Nature
I’ll be talking to the Northants Bird Club tomorrow evening (Wednesday 2 September) at The Fishing Lodge at Pitsford Reservoir, just outside the village of Holcot on the Brixworth road (NN6 9SJ). Kick off is at 7.30pm. I guess I’ll talk about Hen Harriers and why we should ban driven grouse shooting mostly! But I’ll…
Born in East Anglia, but raised in the Arabian Gulf, Ed Hutchings was always going to have two things – itchy feet and an inquisitive mind. After leaving university with a degree in hospitality, he embarked on a career as a sommelier for a decade, working at various Michelin-star restaurants; in the process winning the…
Natural England has been carrying out a Hen Harrier study with radio-tagged and satellite-tagged Hen Harriers for years and years (since 2002 in fact). It formed part of the basis for the excellent NE report (A Future for Hen Harriers in England? which was published under a Labour government in 2008). Natural England has been…
Natural England would like your views on moving Water Voles for development purposes. This damn nature sure gets in the way, doesn’t it?
It’s just as illegal to kill a Buzzard as it is to kill a Hen Harrier. Satellite-tagging a lot of Buzzards, particularly in areas close to driven grouse moors would, I bet, lead to a lot of interesting information about Buzzard movements and survival, and also lead to some interesting ‘disappearances’ which could be…