By Mr Carbo
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[Ralph Underhill has been on holiday but will be back next week]
Your blackberrying stories
The readership of this blog seems to be packed with keen pickers of blackberries. I like the idea that you too have dark-stained fingers having come back from a visit to the hedgerows. This weekend is moving towards the end of the blackberry picking season and the weather forecast isn’t great. I think that a…
Repeal the Weeds Act of 1959
I’d really like to see this e-petition get over the 10,000 signature barrier and trigger a government response. It and all other open e-petitions on the parliament website probably have until mid-October (and the start of a general election campaign) before they will be automatically curtailed. But it is, I’m sure you will agree, a…
October Birdwatch
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October Birdwatch arrived through my narrow late-Victorian letterbox afew days ago and so you’ll find it in newsagents too. Well, when I say you’ll find it there you might not. Not only because the limited numbers are bound to sell out soon but also because there are so many magazines that I find it difficult…
Wild Justice replies to Defra’s offer of a review of gamebird releases
Wild Justice’s legal challenge of gamebird releases has forced Defra to agree to a review of this activity and its impacts on sites of nature conservation importance (Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas for birds). It is fairly important to note that this review would not apply only to gamebird releases inside the…
This Saturday, 1pm
I’ll see you there?
The Glover review (5) – overall
The Glover review is, I repeat, a serious, imaginative and important document. I would suggest that it should be widely and often read and re-read. But it is an inherently conservative view of National Parks and AONBs and their future. When reading a report like this one it is easy to read more into the…
The streets of London
I’m in London for a few days. It’s been raining hard now and again. I never imagine the future with rain – my thoughts are always of sunny days. Does that make me an optimist? Do pessimists imagine rainy days? Or does it make me a fantasist? But walking along familiar pavements in or just…
Wales leads way on general licences
This announcement from Natural Resources Wales on the future of general licences in Wales is very sensible and very welcome. https://naturalresources.wales/about-us/news-and-eventsc/news/nrw-announces-new-licences-for-wild-bird-control/?lang=en It doesn’t mean that bird species causing real problems can’t be killed but it limits the species and situations where the licence to do this is general. General is often, wrongly, taken to mean…