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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

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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…

The evidence-unbased Badger cull

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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

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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.

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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

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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…

The final scores

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If you signed this e-petition then ‘Thank you!’. If you signed it recently and haven’t clicked on the confirmation email you were sent then it might be worth finding it quickly (though it might already be too late). Here’s the list of constituencies with more than 200 signatures, an entirely random cut off point, with…

Closed – at 111,963 signatures

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Well, that happened a bit earlier than I expected but all good things must come to an end. Many of you will have received the same email from the Petitions Committee that I did which included this message; The current Petitions Committee, the group of MPs who decide whether petitions are debated, won’t exist after…