This is the text of Theresa Villiers’s speech to the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday with comments from me. A vision for future farming as we tackle the challenges of climate change and nature recovery Leading Defra to put farming at the heart of tackling the twin climate and nature crisis Thank you … I am…
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New Shadow Secretary of State for Environment – Luke Pollard
Labour has, this week, and four weeks after Sue Hayman lost her seat as Workington woman, appointed Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, as the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Mr Pollard is the seventh Shadow SoS since the 2010 general election and, without wanting to be unkind…
National Trust celebrates its 125th anniversary with new ambitions – press release
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…
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…