Yesterday Defra announced that they would be consulting on how to assess the impacts of releases of non-native gamebirds on sites of high conservation importance in response to Wild Justice’s legal challenge – see here. Wild Justice’s view on Defra’s decision – see here. Inaccurate coverage in the Daily Telegraph (maybe it would help them…
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Wild Justice wins latest legal challenge – impacts of non-native gamebird releases to be assessed
See here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defra-responds-to-wild-justice-challenge-releasing-gamebirds-on-protected-sites
Richard Benwell takes lead role in Wildlife and Countryside Link
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Richard Benwell is to take the helm at Wildife Link, taking over from Elaine King who has moved to be the CEO of the Chilterns Conservation Board (Chilterns AONB). Richard has worked at the RSPB, WWT, then as a Special Advisor for Michael Gove at Defra. He has also written a couple of guest blogs…
Zac and Pow!
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park, 224 signatures in favour of a ban on driven grouse shooting) has been promoted to fill the void left by Therese Coffey. Zac has had one of the quickest ever promotions having come in to Defra as a Parliamentary Under Secretary at the end of July he is a Minister of…
UK biodiversity indicators published (4)
Last week, the latest UK Biodiversity Indicators were published. Did you see the government press release about them? Did you hear Defra ministers quizzed about them on every news bulletin through the day? Some biodiveristy indices are going up despite the general loss of wildlife in our lives. There are more plants ‘protected’ in seed…
Four weeks – 106,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting
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It’s exactly four weeks since this e-petition launched and we are over 106,000 signatures. That’s amazing! I see that Calder Valley has just overtaken Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey on signatures – I reckon it will end up as top constituency when all e-petitions close ahead of a general election some time after 14 October….
RSPB press release
Booming year for Britain’s loudest bird 102 male booming bitterns recorded on RSPB reserves for the first time Bitterns were on the brink of extinction 20 years ago with only 11 males left in Britain. The RSPB is calling on governments across the UK to underpin nature’s recovery with new laws and to ensure adequate…
UK Biodiversity indicators published (3) – lack of government investment
Last week, the latest UK Biodiversity Indicators were published. Did you see the government press release about them? Did you hear Defra ministers quizzed about them on every news bulletin through the day? I’m keener on th ‘stqate’ indicators (ones that are about real biodiverity numbers) than the ‘pressure’ or ‘response’ indicators, although there is…
UK biodiversity indicators published (2) – good news in marine environment
Last week, the latest UK Biodiversity Indicators were published. Did you see the government press release about them? Did you hear Defra ministers quizzed about them on every news bulletin through the day? This is the second blog post of the day on this report, and deals with the marine environment where there seems to…
NEWS: Natalie Bennett awarded life peerage in May’s resignation honours list.
Fantastic news!