Natural England recently announced that the 177 lakes of the Cotswold Water Park have been ‘granted’ SSSI status, although this decision is out to the standard consultation with owners, occupiers and other notified parties. This must be good news because it is a very rare event that new areas are protected. It’s worth reading the…
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Spain votes Swift as their bird of 2021
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Swift has won the vote to be Spain’s bird of the year. This video is a welcome reminder of the fact that spring is coming closer, the days are lengthening, there is more bird song every day and that Swifts will return to our skies in three months. And it’s just a good video! For…
Wild Justice makes further progress with general licences – this time in Wales
His Honour Justice Jarman handed down a very significant judgment today on Welsh general licences – see Wild Justice blog for details.
Bird/poultry flu update
Bird/poultry flu is detected in a Mute Swan on the Western Isles.
Still quite murky…
At the end of November I posted this about the WWT’s ‘refocus’ document. I’d read it several times and couldn’t really make much sense of it. It felt a little more like something one would find on a corporate website which was aiming not to tell you anything than the sharp new vision for a…