Congratulations to Benedict Macdonald and Dara McAnulty for winning their categories of the Wainwright Prize. Ben’s book, Rebirding, won the new category for global conservation. Dara’s book, Diary of a Young Naturalist, won the category for UK nature writing.
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Press release – The Langholm Initiative
£1m capital investment from South of Scotland Enterprise for community moorland buyout South of Scotland Enterprise’s Board has announced up to £1 million financial support to the Langholm Initiative charity in its venture to purchase part of Langholm Moor from Buccleuch Estates. The Langholm Initiative is spearheading a campaign to raise enough funds to buy…
Register for the RSPB AGM
If you are an RSPB member, and there are over a million of us, then you can attend the AGM. This year, it is online and could end up being the biggest Zoom call in history. You have to be an RSPB member (I am) and you have to register (I have). One of the…
Blackbird reporting rate
Yesterday’s Birdtrack reporting rate graph was Blackbird. The biggest clue is the high reporting rate through the year. As with all the reporting rate graphs (reporting rate is the proportion of all complete lists of birds in which the species is recorded) the shape of the graph is affected by where birders go and what…
England tree strategy – respond this week
You can have your say on the England Tree Strategy by filling in all or part of an online form by the end of Friday this week. Click here for link. This is an important issue – though I can’t promise the DEFRA will take any notice of your response – though I can promise…