Recap: Bob Berzins discovered that Natural England had issued what amounted to a general licence for conservation purposes after they had stopped issuing general licences for conservation purposes (sounds odd doesn’t it – see Bob’s guest blogs Natural England licences; a cover up? Part 1 and Natural England licences; a cover up? Part 2). And…
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Scottish petition – Beavers
Trees for Life has launched a petition to urge the Scottish Government to relocate Beavers to suitable areas rather than licencing their killing.
An interesting paper
These results show that shooting has a greater non-lethal effect on crows than trapping. While trapping may be a more efficient way of removing crows than shooting, shooting not only reduces the number of nuisance animals directly, but also affects their behaviour and habitat use so that damage is reduced indirectly. https://bioone.org/journals/Ornithological-Science/volume-19/issue-2/osj.19.125/Alert-and-Flight-Initiation-Distances-of-Crows-in-Relation-to/10.2326/osj.19.125.short
Press release Red List Mammals from the Mammal Society
One quarter of native mammals now at risk of extinction in Britain The first official Red List for British Mammals highlights species most at risk of national extinction in the near future, with researchers calling for urgent action to prevent their loss. The first official Red List for British Mammals, produced by the Mammal Society…
What is happening to the Moorland Association?
This is an email sent to Media House at, by chance, exactly 13:00 today. No response yet. I’m worried about Amanda. And it’s not like the Moorland Association to be so silent this close to the Inglorious 12th. Hi!My name is Dr Mark Avery, I am a blogger. This is a media enquiry about the…
Where is the review of gamebird impacts?
DEFRA announced on 21 February 2020 that a review of numbers of gamebirds released and their impacts on protected sites was ‘expected to conclude in March 2020’ and yet we are now near the end of the first week in August. Just saying… Wild Justice will be in court as the Claimant in this matter…
GWCT fact-checking website – does it measure up?
The release of the GWCT fact-checking website is interesting. I wonder whether this marks a significant change in direction of GWCT or just a spasm. We’ll see as time passes. But I would give it a cautiously warm welcome at this stage and hope that it might represent a wish of GWCT to retrace their…
Press release from GWCT
Fact-checking website launched to challenge inaccuracies in scientific reporting ‘What the Science Says’ is a new website which sets out to challenge misinformation and misreporting of ecological science. The online resource is the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) response to what many in the scientific community see as increasing inaccuracy in the discussion of…
Cornwall Badger Project vaccination crowdfunder
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This looks like a good project to me, so I have supported it on their crowdfunder – click here.
The nest protectors by Inkcap
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This week’s long article in the ‘always worth a read’ Inkcap is about Hen Harrier protection.