Plans for Portsmouth ‘super peninsula’ should be binned not backed, say wildlife charities – 4000 new homes and new marine hub would rip up internationally important wildlife site and tear a hole through legal safeguards – Development could destroy vital line of natural defence against rising sea levels, meaning the public will pay over decades…
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Corncrake conservation in the UK – a well-told tale.
This paper is in the current (November) issue of British Birds and it’s a thorough review of the successful conservation of this globally threatened species in the UK, based on science, largely RSPB science and largely led by the author. I think it’s becoming fashionable these days to ignore species conservation as a bit easy…
Wednesday book review – Future Sea by Deborah Rowan Wright
Living as I do, inland in east Northants, I don’t get to see the sea very much, and when I do it’s usually a bit of sea with some land not very far way on the other side of it. But we live on an oceanic planet which is dominated by vast water expanses that…
Another case of bird/poultry flu – this time in wild birds
DEFRA report a case of bird/poultry flu on a Canada Goose and two Greylags found dead near Stroud in Gloucestershire. Slimbridge is near Stroud in Gloucestershire, I wonder whether that is the location.
Guest blog – Amanda Tuke interviews Josh Styles.
Amanda is a nature and environment writer and blogger based in the wilds of suburban south London. She writes mainly about suburban wildflowers, insects and birds on her blog. Her nature writing has appeared in anthologies, on the London Wildlife Trust blog and in Devon Life Magazine. She also blogs on www.freelancenaturewriter.com about her…