Here is the response to the email from the previous blog post: Sorry for the delay in my response. I have been getting some advice on the issue from our environmental health team. As you are well aware heather burning is a legal activity subject to the Heather and Grass (Burning) Regulations (as amended) 1987….
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Bird song (4) songs and calls
This is a rather prosaic subject but, here goes, what’s the difference between a song and a call? Like many things, it seems pretty straight forward until you get into the depths of the subject. So let’s rise above the detail. Consider the farmyard fowl. A cockerel, cock or rooster crowing is an example of…
Less burning not moor burning, please
I was copied into this email recently. I’ve disguised the names and location as the complaint is a general one which I have seen many times before – but here it is very well-expressed. However, I might point out that I have lived on the ********* for 30 years and I know the regulations. I…
Bizarre
Whilst soil quality is a neglected aspect of environmental health and water quality is clearly very important, this would make a good undergraduate essay topic. Why has the history of nature conservation been so wrong in concentrating on site designation and protection, species protection, a proper planning system, reducing overexploitation, preventing the introduction of invasive…
The gamebirds have it, the gamebirds have it.
Yesterday I asked you whether you preferred game bird, gamebird, game-bird or maybe you really weren’t the least bit fussed about it. There were a lot of very interesting comments. And the results were as follows: A resounding majority (58% of responses) of 362 responses was for gamebird with the next most popular response being…
Speculating on the future
Coronavirus This is the first mention of this thing on this blog. I wonder how many more there will be? Will it all blow over and look like a lot of fuss about nothing, or not? There have been about 2800 deaths from coronavirus worldwide so far, but that is likely to be an underestimate…
Blanket bog maps
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Dear Natural EnglandThis is a request for information under the FoI/EIR regulations. Please reply within the 20-day maximum allowed for such a straightforward request.This is a follow-up to my requests 4438 (to which NE responded on 27 November 2018) and 4520 (to which NE responded on 18 January 2019) about datasets on deep peat and…
Wow! Very significant
Using the courts to protect the environment – it can work. What a massive result.
A serious game…
OK, this is a serious matter. There has, for the first time, been a serious difference of opinion on strategy between factions of Wild Justice and its legal team. The strategic matter under dispute is how to write the name of the group of birds in which pheasants and partridges are found. Are they game…
EDM 139 – National Wildlife Crime Unit
If your MP is not a minister then they may be prepared to sign this Early Day Motion (#139) which calls for permanent funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit. You could write to them and ask. Many Conservative MPs do not sign any EDMs on the grounds that they are a waste of time…