This book is actually about threatened birds rather than rare birds – it deals with those 197 species which are regarded as Critically Endangered and those 389 which are Endangered. Having said that, many of these species are very rare. For example, there are (or were) 27 Sulu Hornbills in the world (on three islands…
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National Trust – looking good!
The National Trust has just issued a press release on its plans for the High Peak Moors. This has been a subject of concern and hope on this blog for quite some time (see here, here, here, here, and here). The text of the press release is reproduced below (with some good bits highlighted by…
NGO Watch
Have you noticed a breeze of change blowing through the NGO world? At Plantlife, their much-loved Chief Executive, Victoria Chester, is moving on to a higher vocation and so they are looking for a new leader. The Freshwater Habitats Trust has emerged, like a dragonfly, from the waters of Pond Conservation –…
You readers
This rather wiggly table (sorry about that – I’ve spent ages trying to get it to look perfect and failed!) shows you the number of unique visitors to this website in each of the last 12 months and in August 2012 and 2011 (for comparison). VISITORS AUG 2011 1918 AUG 2012 4909 SEP 5816 OCT 7179 NOV 7660 DEC 8123…