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? Is this the first you have heard of them? I’m fond of these indicators for two main reasons. First, government ought to…
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Some more information on brood meddling
You may remember that c10 days ago I published some information received from Natural England about brood meddling (see here). There was some information missing from that response which has now been supplied in the form of this interesting email from Prof Ken Norris to the rest of the scientific steering group; Note that this…
A close race for the top between Calder Valley and Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
The e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting is ticking along slowly (probably because nobody has put much effort into promoting it since it sailed past 100,000 signatures). Tomorrow at about 4:25pm will represent four full weeks since this e-petition was launched (after a five and a half week delay) and I’ll update…
The environment is still in jeopardy from Brexit
I know people voted both ways in the referendum, obviously. I know people have different views about these things, obviously. But I simply say this: people didn’t vote to lose their jobs, didn’t vote to see our environmental standards, workers’ rights, consumer protections ripped up. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/02/brexit-latest-news-boris-johnson-threatening-to-deselect-tory-rebels-to-provoke-early-election-claims-gauke-live-news Sounds quite sensible to me. Who said it? It…
A very interesting paper on Hen Harrier diet
AbstractThe hen harrier is a heavily persecuted bird of prey in Great Britain since its diet includes Red grouse, a game bird shot in driven and walked-up grouse shooting. Unlike walked-up shooting where shooters walk up moors and flush grouse with dogs, in driven grouse shooting the grouse are driven by beaters towards static shooters….
Sunday book review – A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals by Millie Marotta
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This is a delightful book for children, but will appeal to all ages, and would be particularly suitable for parents (or grandparents) to look at with their younger relatives. Millie Marotta is responsible for both the illustrations and the text – and both are very good. The format is pretty simple; full page illustration, and…
Tim Melling – Brown Skua
Tim writes: skuas are closely related to gulls but differ in their bill structure. In summer a lid develops from the base of the bill covering the nostrils. In fact, the old name Pomatorhine for Pomarine Skua translates from Greek as lidded nose, and that lid is visible here in the sitting bird. These are…
Fake news (3) by Diogenes
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership
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