I thought this was an interesting piece in Shooting UK online – click here. That the EU is moving to a complete ban on lead ammunition is not surprising or a secret – and is long overdue. I thought what was interesting was the quote from BASC’s Caroline Bedell; There are a number of uncertainties…
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The Defra consultation on general licences
The consultation on general licences, released on Thursday by Defra, looks very promising. You can read all the questions and think about them here without having to start filling in any of the information. And that means you can have a long think about them and maybe even come back to this subject in November…
Tim Melling – Elephant Seal
Tim writes: Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) is the largest species of pinniped (seals and sea-lions) in the world. It is 40% heavier than Northern Elephant Seal and more than twice as heavy as a Walrus. The largest ever male Southern Elephant Seal was 6.85m long with an estimated weight of 5000kg. Research has shown…
Sunday book review – 21st Century Yokel by Tim Cox
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This is a rambling book – in a good way. It meanders around the countryside of Devon and East Anglia looking at places and issues for a while and moving on to the next interesting issue. That’s fine by me. Is it a nature book? Who cares! There’s certainly quite a lot of nature in…
Tim Melling – Striated Caracara
Tim writes: Striated Caracara is now a very rare bird. It breeds on a few islands off Tierra del Fuego but is commonest on the Falkland Islands. But the numbers on the Falklands are massively depleted so the population there is only around 500 pairs. They are totally indifferent to humans, which led to their…
Ramblings and connections
I went to London on Thursday and came back on Friday. Here are a few rambling thoughts and recollections… … standing on the platform at Wellingborough station I had a phone call briefing me about an item that was going to come up on the agenda of the World Land Trust meeting that I was…
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After one month
It’s exactly a month since this e-petition launched and we are over 106,000 signatures. That’s amazing! Here’s the ever-growing list of constituencies with more than 200 signatures already (as of this morning): Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP (Con), 491 signatures Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP (SNP), 489 signatures High Peak, Ruth George…
Guest blog – Sorry Tony, you cannot spin this into a good news story for Natural England by Dominic Woodfield
Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is a life-long birder, a specialist in botany, habitat restoration and creation and in protected fauna including bats, herpetofauna and other species. He is also a highly experienced practitioner in Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations…
Opportunity to change the shape of general licences
Defra is consulting the public, fairly properly, on general licences. But don’t worry, you have plenty of time to think about it. Today, Defra issued this consultation which asks for views and evidence – the latter is quite important. This survey forms part of the process of consulting and engaging with stakeholders for the 2019…