I’ve recently been appointed as a member of the Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood and Coastal Committee which means that I can give up any prospect of being paid on several days a year to help comment on flood and coastal defence projects. I attended a very good induction day last week organised by the Environment…
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Tesco shares crashed on link-up with RSPB – every little helps
Last week the RSPB and Tesco re-announced their link up on rainforests – you’ll find a description of the link-up in the most recent Birds magazine which arrived in mid-January (pages 22-23). That link-up has already had an amazing impact on Tesco: looking at its 3-month share value you will find it peaked at 411p…
A busy week
Congratulations to the re-elected NFU President, Peter Kendall, whose speech at the NFU Conference was described as ‘shocking and regressive‘ by one of his own members on this site on Wednesday. That farmer said he voted for the NFU in the Nature of Harming ‘award’ and writes rather harshly that ‘Peter Kendall is a PR…
Guest blogs
I’m grateful to the growing number of people who have posted Guest Blogs on this site. So far, the following have occurred: ‘Mr White’ on the demise of the RSPB’s Mark Avery Peter Marren on the state of wildlife NGOs, statutory agencies and more. Ian Coghill on the work of the GWCT David Bullock on…
Green Greeks
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Beware Germans bearing gifts may be the watchword in Athens now, but if you raise your eyes above the floor to the heavens, or just short of them, then you may see signs of green shoots of growth in the Greek economy. Or at least on the roof of the Treasury in Athens. These…