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We are approaching the end of the first week of this petition and it has already passed 47,000 signatures. This demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Inhumane Badger slaughter is not a vote winner. Four days ago there were only four constituencies with…

Here’s a discussion of which I was a part, talking about reintroductions of Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles and potentially of Hen Harriers and listening to the story of the Short-haired Bumblebee. I’d have liked more on the bumblebee!

I have a pile of books to review as lots of publishers delayed publication until September and so there is now a flood. There will be two books reviewed on this blog on Sunday to enable me to keep my head above the rising tide; Dominic Couzens’s A Bird a Day and Hugh Warwick’s The…

Yesterday the RSPB launched this document with a rather ambitious title. In 15 pages, which amount to six and a half pages of text, the RSPB sets out its green recovery plan. As a bunch of ideas they are very much the right ideas. As a plan, it’s hardly a plan. As a report, it’s…

I watched this webinar this morning and it was a good event. Thank you to the RSPB for putting it together. It coincided with the launch of what the RSPB call a Green Recovery Plan (I’ll come back to that later) but in many ways this event was a stand-alone event. Beccy Speight, RSPB CEO,…