Here’s an opportunity to earn £50,000+ per annum leading an organisation with 1700 members which is the ‘voice for songbirds’. Membership is £20 per annum and of that almost £10 goes to the research fund. So membership subscriptions seem to fund only a third of the CEO salary at most. According to the Charity Commission…
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News from Iceland
The troubles of the sole Fin whaling company in Iceland, Hvalur hf, continue as last week they lost a legal case and have been ordered to pay wages owed to the amount of 100.000.000kr, more than £540,000. Hvalur hf may well appeal. And just because I can, I’ll link to this video of my favourite…
Guest blog – Can One Word Bring About the Mass Restoration of Nature? by Chris Millward
Chris Millward was born in Birmingham, grew up watching wildlife in South Staffordshire and, after reading the 2013 State of Nature report, founded Team4Nature which does exactly what it says on the tin! I was five years old and playing in my back garden. I must have had my fill of playing with “Humpty Dumpty”…
Sunday book review – Birds of the UK Overseas Territories edited by Roger Riddington
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The UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are 14 remnants of the British Empire which have the British monarch as their Head of State, depend on the UK for their defence and which all have coastlines. All are closer, geographically, to other sovereign nations than they are to the UK but all have strong cultural ties to…
Sunday book review – A Vulture Landscape by Ian Parsons
Ian Parsons has written more than 20 guest blogs here and so is a fairly familiar name to this blog’s readers. But when not writing for this blog he is a nature tour leader in Extremadura and this blog is about that land, west of Madrid and stretching to the Portuguese border, its wildlife and…