The joint NGO campaign to get a binding target for nature in the Environment Bill is a week old and has raised over 72,000 signatures. It’s a marathon not a sprint, and with collaborative campaigns different organisations do their running at different times. But this has got off to a good start. Personally, I think…
BLOG
Today
Sunday book review – Shearwater by Roger Morgan-Grenville
I did wonder, with some trepidation, what a whole book on Manx Shearwaters might be. For sure, they are wonderful birds, as are all birds, and certainly they make remarkable journeys across the oceans, but they come to land to nest on remote islands at night and live down burrows. But I needn’t have worried…
Tim Melling – Purple Sandpiper
Tim writes: Spurn peninsula in East Yorkshire has been breached by the sea so the point is now an island at high tide. As I walked back along the breach in late September I spotted just a single wader on the beach, which was this Purple Sandpiper. I usually expect to see this species on…