Standing up for Nature
This is a conservation success story through a combination of site and species protection where the main small population resides in Morocco… … and reestablishment in the species’s former range.
Wildlife campaigners are celebrating the conservation efforts of a leading landowner which have resulted in rare hen harriers roosting on its moor. Adopting nature-friendly moorland management techniques, NG Bailey’s Denton Park Estate, near Ilkley, has reversed declines in birds of prey associated with wildlife persecution by its former grouse shooting tenant. Hen harriers are one…
Well hello there, I’m Colin, living in Glasgow, passionate all my life about the outdoors and wildlife, and very grateful to Mark for the opportunity to present here on his Guest Blog. For the last few years I’d been preparing and planning for retirement, and they were good plans. Travel, home and abroad, old favourites…
A further dozen cases of bird/poultry flu in ‘wild’ birds have been listed by DEFRA for the week which ended on 29 November (which suggests that the wild bird data are getting seriously out of date on the GOV UK website). This map from APHA shows the poultry farms currently under restrictions: two in Norfolk,…
Anna Clayton is a writer, researcher and worker director at Ethical Consumer Research Association, and has co-written all three Shooting Wildlife Reports. Ethical Consumer is a member-led, independent co-operative that has over 25 years’ experience of ‘making ethics easy’ – specialising in consumer engagement and best practice in ethical markets. Twitter: @EC_magazine Anna Clayton draws…