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…
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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…
Seven Worlds, One Planet (3)
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…
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…