There are four weeks to go – and then we vote. I was very pleased two years ago when the grouse-shooting-supporting MP for High Peak, Andrew Bingham, lost his seat to Ruth George. I’m rather hoping she can hang on to it this time around. Ms George has a majority of just over 2000 and…
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Yummy vegetarian food
Yesterday evening I was at an event in London with the wonderful World Land Trust. The food was vegetarian and delicious. I’m not vegetarian, but I eat meat or fish only a couple of days a week. I started being more vegetarian, but not vegetarian, about 12 years ago when I made a New Year…
There’s an election on – shhhhhh!!!!!!
Although a general election is probably the most important event determining the future of wildlife conservation for the following years (a big claim but one I will stick with) you won’t hear much from wildlife conservation charities during this period. It may well take you from now until the general election to get your head…
BASC event mothballed
I’m told that BASC was planning to have an event in Derbty Museum and Art Gallery but that the museum has decided that this was a bit of a mistake. The event will go ahead but not in the Notice Nature, Feel Joy Gallery (which would have had to have been renamed the Notice Nature…
And quickly flows the Don
The flooding in south Yorkshire has been in the news a lot. As others have pointed out, the flooding of a place called Fishlake is written in its name. I’m interested in the contribution made by grouse moor management, both burning and drainage, to flooding but I don’t know much about the Don. Fishlake is…
Floods
Floods are in the news, and they are a serious matter, but this short blog post is mostly a flood-related story against myself, and is of little wider relevance or importance. There’s a road near where I live which often used to be flooded. Some unblocking and ditch-building and various other bits of engineering have…
Trophy Hunting
Paolo Strampelli’s guest blog posted here in late October proved popular with readers of this blog, and has now been posted, with permission and acknowledgement) on the Africa Geographic website – click here, and will also appear in a magazine in January. You read it here first. Paolo’s guest blog is well worth reading more…
Campaign of the year
The Birdwatch Birders’ Choice nominations are published, and the closing date is the end of this month – click here. The short-listed nominations for Campaign of the Year are: #NetsDownForNature made a lot of useful noise and drew attention to the netting of trees, buildings, hedges back in the spring – it made a difference…
Local news
I was glad to see this in one of my local free papers. Not the most inspiring account of the beauty of the sun shining on a wheeling flock of Golden Plover in the Nene Valley but useful nonetheless. If we crash out of the EU then this protection, the Special Protection Area, could easily…
Press release from Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire Moors and LACS
Campaigning organisations Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors and the League Against Cruel Sports have welcomed a commitment from Yorkshire Water to change the way it manages its land. Instead of automatically renewing the leases for grouse shooting, the utility company – which is Yorkshire’s largest landowner – will instead review each one to decide if…