You may easily have missed this statement on the Waitrose website! In fact, it took me 15 minutes to find it and I was told that it was there and what the wording was. You certainly wouldn’t find it easily if, for example, you’d heard that Waitrose had gone lead-free and you wanted to buy…
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Avian flu outbreak in Kent
If you go to the APHA website you’ll find this map of the location; Birders will recognise the area as Sandwich Bay with its Bird Observatory. I remember standing on the road which runs throughthe pink circle and looking west at an enclosure which we were told had some Beavers in it. Whereas the area…
Gamebirds victory (5) – writing to Wales
Today Wild Justice’s lawyers wrote to the Welsh government and asked them what are their plans in respect of gamebird releases in Wales in 2021.
Gamebirds victory (4) – what Tim Bonner said, and what he might have meant.
Tim Bonner is the gift that keeps on giving. In our little chat on Today (at 1hr 50mins into programme) on Saturday morning he said a couple of things that are worth examining in more detail. Here they are: There is no evidence whatsoever that Pheasant or Red-legged Partridge are doing any significant damage to…
Gamebirds victory (3) – another aspect of illegality
May I refer you to document EB2, page 116, section 4.2 of those released by DEFRA on Friday as part of their caving in to the Wild Justice legal challenge? Here it is: It’s only really the first sentence you need bother to read although the whole of sections 2 and 3 are worth looking…
Gamebirds victory (2) – how many gamebirds?
Wild Justice started its legal challenge of gamebird releases in July 2019. The latest published figures for gamebird releases of which we were aware were those by the GWCT in 2018 (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. 2018a. How many birds are shot in the UK? Game and Wildlife Review 2017: 41–42.) which referred to the…
Gamebirds victory (1) – what sort of victory?
On Today on Saturday morning (in the last 10 minutes of the programme) Mishal Husain described Wild Justice as a campaigning organisation, and we wouldn’t disagree with that, but our victory in this matter is not a campaigning victory it is a legal victory. We have not persuaded government to change their policy or the…
Book review – The Law of the Wild by Ian Swingland
Ian Swingland is a friend of mine and it’s his 74th birthday tomorrow, so I thought I’d mention his recently-published book which is an autobiography. Ian came into my life in my 20s in the late 1970s in Oxford through a friend of a friend and we were in the same circle of Oxford-associated biologists…
Another good month for readership of this blog
Over 103,000 pageviews in October makes it the eighth month this year (and the seventh in a row) to top the wholly artificial 100,000 pageviews level. And with 24,000+ unique users (readers) this month that is very respectable too. As hinted at a few weeks ago, despite some saying it will never happen, it is…
The Well-read Naturalist
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I’ve been catching up with John Riutta’s recent book reviews on The Well-read Naturalist. I read all of his book reviews even those that are rather local to his part of the world, of northern Oregon. I read them because they are so thoughtful and so well written. I sometimes feel I’d rather read John’s…