National Trust outlines fresh ambition in landmark speech by Director General Charity will become carbon net zero by 2030 20 million trees to be planted and established over ten years to tackle climate change, creating new woodland ‘one and a half times the size of Manchester or equivalent to 42 new Sherwood Forests’ Ambitious plans…
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Update on TASC crowdfunder
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Crowdfunder approaching £10,000 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-coronation-wood/
We will see a lot of this…
Our strong British food brand is built on the high standards to which we hold ourselves. We can maintain and indeed enhance UK standards as we negotiate new trading relationships with friends and neighbours in the EU and leading global economies. Theresa Villiers at the Oxford Farming Conference as reported in the Guardian. Note the…
Guest blog – Planting Trees by Ian Parsons
Ian Parsons spent twenty years working as a Ranger with the Forestry Commission, where he not only worked with birds of prey and dormice, but where he developed his passion for trees. Now a freelance writer, Ian runs his own specialist bird tour company leading tours to Extremadura. For more details see www.griffonholidays.com This is…
Nature’s Voice wrapping.
There’s not much doubt that the RSPB’s magazine comes wrapped in a compostable wrapper. Apart from the ghastly name there are quite a lot of odd things about the magazine – how many can you spot? I’ve seen complaints on Twitter about the amount of advertising of overseas holidays in the magazine. That is a…
Bird Study wrapping
I haven’t delved into Bird Study yet as I was distracted by its wrapper. It’s so unusual for a magazine to arrive chez moi apparently wrapped in plastic that I have been scouring the wrapper, the journal and the bit of paper inside the wrapper to find something telling me that it’s all recyclable really….
from Diogenes
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Number 10 is looking for weirdos
It is possible, but very unlikely, that Dominic Cummings was reading my latest column in British Wildlife which points out that we need some more experts in Westminster and Whitehall when he wrote his latest blog post. Cummings called for misfits and weirdos to bolster government’s ability to know what it is doing. He has…
Started a bit gloomy
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This was Titchwell RSPB nature reserve on Friday morning; it was rather dreich (don’t you love that word? Apparently we all do!). But it’s difficult to have a bad day at Titchwell – it’s a very good nature reserve. I had three conversations with people who wanted to say ‘Well done!’ to Wild Justice and…
HS2 to be or not to be?
My views on HS2 have changed over time. I started being philosophically in favour (infrastructure improvement, investment during a time of austerity, linking the country, trains) but thinking that it would probably never happen, and then, as I learned more about it, to being practically against (overpriced for the returns, unnecessarily damaging route) but thinking…