Last night David Attenborough took us to South America – I’ve never actually visited South America and I have had opportunities which I’ve turned down. In some ways seeing that programme compensated for not going myself, and in other ways it weakened my resolve never to go. Anyway, the point was, the film was amazing…
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Badgers and Turtle Doves
I had a great time at the Badger Trust conference on Saturday – and in talking to many delegates on Friday evening too. There were some old friends there, including some readers of this blog, and one person who had delivered lots of postcards in the Calder Valley promoting Chris Packham’s and Wild Justice’s e-petition….
Guy Shorrock – Red Knot
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Guy writes: I recently went with friends to the hide tide roost at the RSPB Snettisham reserve. It has been many years since I had last been to see this spectacle, not such a high tide on that occasion, and found the whole experience quite mesmerising. The incoming North Sea had pushed tens of thousands…
Sunday book review – Letters to the Earth edited by Anna Hope, Jo McInnes and Kay Michael
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This book is cheap – so it’s not a big risk to buy one! And all royalties go to support creative campaigning for environmental justice. It’s an anthology of writing (poems and short essays) about the environmental state we’re in organised in sections: Love, Loss, Emergence, Hope and Action, and with a foreword by Emma…
Steller’s Jay – Tim Melling
Tim writes: on 31 July 1741 Georg Wilhelm Steller came ashore on Kayak Island and became the first European naturalist ever to reach Alaska. Steller, a German, was a member of Vitus Bering’s expedition which had been sent by the Empress Anna of Russia to search for North America (although unbeknownst to them, the Empress…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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The evidence-unbased Badger cull
I’m off to the Badger Trust Conference later today for tomorrow’s talks. I know very little about Badgers but it’s difficult not to get involved in what appears to be the start of wildlife-cleansing of a native species from large areas of the country. Wild Justice is looking at the Badger cull and we’ve had…
RSPB on bird statistics
Following yesterday’s publication of the latest figures on some UK bird populations the RSPB has published a blog. Here’s a quote: As you would expect, these indicators confirm the dire warnings about Britain’s nature reported in the State of Nature report published on 3rd October this year.The small decline in the combined index disguises substantial…
Press release – Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
Creed welcomes Hen Harrier breeding successPayments to farmers for 2019 Scheme commencing this weekThe Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., welcomed the Hen Harrier Monitoring report for 2019 which is showing a 35% increase on the 2017 figure in the number of young hen harriers fledged. The 81 chicks fledged this…
UK bird populations continue to suffer very badly
DEFRA has today published its latest report on how badly it is doing in conserving bird populations. The graphs above show the individual values for each year of the aggregated population levels for groups of birds by habitat. So the dotted lines go up and down from year to year. The solid lines show the…