Wild Justice revealed yesterday evening that it had written to Natural Resource Wales challenging the legality of their general licences. Wild Justice is waiting for a response from DEFRA, requested by the end of this week, on its plans for new general licences this year when the current ones run out at the end of…
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#justice4henharriers – crowdfunder almost there!
The Hen Harrier is an amazing bird, and the image I’ve used here from Gordon Yates is an amazing image, and you are amazingly generous people. We are almost there and, until 11am today, we are still on Day 2. Thank you very much to over 250 donors. Another 23 fivers will get us there!…
CofE and the government
I’ve always been quite a fan of targets – having measurable aims by which one can assess progress, and the pace of it, is generally a help. Yes, I know it depends what the targets are, and how they are set etc etc etc Of course it does. But the RSPB did set targets for…
BTO press release
The latest report, Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom shows that the Wren continues to hold the title of our commonest bird – the last report in 2013 also had Wren at the top of the list but with a population of just over 8.5 million pairs. Wren numbers are…
Natural England – this must tell you something
I wrote last August about the outrageous cheek of Natural England crowdfunding for a variety of projects, some of which look very much like its statutory duties to me, and others look like a complete waste of time (see here, here). In the ‘complete waste of time’ category is Natural England’s plan to reintroduce Hen…
#justice4henharriers Day 1
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And so we move from Day 1 to Day 2 of this crowdfunder – great start. Thank you! People are so generous. And there is £3900+ still to be transferred from a previous successful case – I’ve just nudged Crowdjustice asking them to do this quickly please. Here is the link to the crowdfunder –…
British Birds – February issue
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There is plenty of interest to read in this month’s British Birds. For example, Adrian Pitches’s always-excellent News and Comment section talks about Werritty, the first successful breeding of Spoon-billed Sandpipers at Slimbridge, our own wild-hacking story, the impacts of a heatwave on Guillemots in the Pacific and much more. But as you can see…
RSPB press release
Oxford-Cambridge rail scheme’s “net gain” commitment shows HS2 failing nature Transport Secretary’s announcement of preferred route for East West Rail timely reminder of HS2’s failure to protect environment Responding to the Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapp’s announcement on 30 January of the preferred route for the proposed East West Rail connection between Oxford…
Catfield Fen again
I’ve been writing about the battle to save Catfield Fen since spring 2012 (and I’ve added those blog posts to the curated archive – click here). Although most of the previous 10 posts were in 2012-2014, and the apparent victory by the land owners, Tim and Geli Harris, to save a wildlife gem from water…
#justice4henharriers – mid evening update
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We’re jogging along with this crowdfunder – thank you for all your support. Over 144 supporters already and we’ve hardly started. It would be nice to get this out of the way fairly quickly though – you cannot imagine how often I check it! It’s very distracting. Here is the link to the crowdfunder –…