It’s time to start thinking about what to do on Hen Harrier Day 2015 – which will be Sunday 9 August (the Sunday before the Inglorious 12th). Birders Against Wildlife Crime are organising a conference in Buxton in March and I’m sure that the subject will come up there. Here are some questions to…
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How Labour could get some green votes
It’s a matter of continuing disappointment that the Labour Party appears not to have anything much to say on wildlife and rural issues. Maybe there will be a mesmerising list of positive policy announcements over the weeks and months running up to the general election (four calendar months distant on Wednesday (and actually 17 weeks…
If you liked Fighting for Birds then…
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… you’ve got an 86% chance of liking A Message from Martha. That’s what the readers’ poll said, anyway. Of the 222 of you who read Fighting for Birds and rated it either ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ then 86% of you rated A Message from Martha as ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ too.
Sunday book review – Claxton by Mark Cocker
This is a lovely book. It has appeared in lots of lists of nature books of the year over the last few weeks as it was published in 2014, but I’ve only just been reading it over Christmas and the New Year and so, for me, it is a book of 2015. Day by day…
What you think of coalitions
When respondents to my readers’ survey were asked which political parties they would like to see in coalition government there was a great outpouring of enthusiasm for the Green Party to be in the mix – more so than either of the two main parties: But if we break the answers down according to whether…