The shooting industry is poisoning thousands of children and has known it is for years – and yet it still promotes wild-shot, lead-shot game meat as a healthy option. See the minutes of the meeting of the Lead Ammunition Group of 16 April 2014 which say: The survey estimated in UK that 5,500 – 12,500…
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Did you watch Hive Alive last night. I started watching it just because I know quite a few of the people involved in making it – Chris Packham, Martha Kearney, Stephen Moss and Brett Westwood. But then I found myself enjoying it! And then I was hooked. A cut above most wildlife programmes. A great…
Eats, shoots and leaves – Owen Paterson
When the news of Owen Paterson’s sacking from the Cabinet was announced there was great cheering above and below ground by badgers and friends of badgers alike. It’s unseemly to take pleasure in another’s misfortune but… His term of office at Defra was short and undistinguished – 22 months dominated by floods (where he spoke…
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Andre Farrar of the RSPB talks to BAWC’s Charlie Moores in the latest of these excellent podcasts: ‘Back then we had double figures pairs of hen harriers [in the Forest of Bowland]’ ‘It was quite a shock…the visceral loathing that gamekeepers had for Hen Harriers’ ‘Little’s changed over the intervening 30 years – except…
Pretending to be a botanist
I did the second visit to ‘my’ Wildflowers Count survey square recently. It was a nice walk on a hot sunny day with a pub at the far side of the square – what’s not to like about that? I am now much better acquainted with black horehound and marsh woundwort than previously. Because this…