I enjoyed yesterday. I launched the Nature of Harming ‘award’ and it generated a lot of interest. Around 250 votes yesterday was pretty good and there was a clear leader at the end of the day. Lots of varied comments and debate – very interesting. If you haven’t voted yet then please do so here. …
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Nature of Harming ‘award’
Today I launch the Nature of Harming ‘award’. Your vote counts – click here to make your choice.
Who got what
Have a look at this interesting report on where the green money went. Figure A, page 6, is very interesting. Environmental funding by trusts etc has fallen since 2006/07 (see page 9). Wildlife gets a big chunk of total environmental funding (page 12). The RSPB gets a big chunk of cash – from a large…
Guest blog – NT’s Simon Pryor responds to events in the Peak District
A response to Mark Avery’s blog An everyday tale of country folk. Thanks Mark (!) for throwing down another gauntlet, for one of us in ‘Dame Fiona’s team” to pick up. I’m a relative newcomer to the Trust, but let me pick up this one, and tell you how I’ve found things on this highly…
Sometimes it all works out
Yesterday was a cold morning but the air was still and so it didn’t feel bitter on my regular walk around Stanwick Lakes. Great tits, dunnocks, chaffinches and robins were singing in the cold morning air. The lakes in the ex-gravel pits were partly frozen but most had small open areas of water in which…