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Fly a kite for a Hen Harrier with Chris Packham on Saturday
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NEWS: Government caves in on ancient woodlands
Ancient woodlands safe until Oakervee Review completed – see here. HS2 Ltd is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Transport. We have assessed 11 ancient woodlands, parts of which were due to be affected by preparations to build Britain’s new high speed railway this autumn, during the period of the Oakervee…
A few thoughts – rather random ones
where is the Werritty report – it’s October! my car has passed the 250,000 miles barrier – that’s slightly more than the distance from Earth to our moon. I’m glad that wasn’t the journey I planned as I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t get me all the way back over the next dozen years or so!…
Guest blog – Hunting on FC land: an update by Jack Riggall
Jack Riggall is an independent hunt monitor and anti-hunting campaigner. He wrote a previous guest blog here, FC and Hunts, in February 2019. The Forestry Commission recently announced, on Thursday 5th September, that they are changing their policy of licensing fox hunts and will begin publishing the dates of hunting meets as well as introducing…
Ban driven grouse shooting e-petition update.
It’s exactly seven weeks since this e-petition launched and we are approaching 108,000 signatures. Progress has been slow over the last three weeks but then no-one has put any effort into bumping up the signatures. As we enter the last 2-3 weeks (probably) of this e-petition then it would be good to put on a…
Garden birds September 2019
I did see a last Swift from the garden in September – on 3 September. September added three species to the year list but no garden-lifers. The three species are Great Spotted Woodpecker (two, together, flew high over the garden as though they were looking around rather than going anywhere in particular), a hooting Tawny…
Own goals galore
Whoever it was in the Moorland Association who had the bright idea to issue a press release which alluded to the fact that two recently tagged Hen Harriers were missing in action in the most roundabout and misleading way was a fool. Whoever it was in the Moorland Association who issued this press release without…
Pinch, punch, first of the month
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.
Doing nature conservation abroad by Defra – some more
Britain is to have the toughest trophy-hunting laws in the world according to the Daily Telegraph and Defra minister Zac Goldsmith. What appears to be envisaged is a ban on the import into the UK of endangered animal parts, such as their heads. Sounds good – if you can’t bring them home to hang on…
Doing nature conservation abroad by Defra
This story in Sunday’s Telegraph coincides with the Conservative Party conference. It criticises two UK firms for providing holidays to Morocco to shoot Turtle Doves – a declining species in the UK and the rest of Europe. So threatened is the Turtle Dove these days that it is listed as globally vulnerable to extinction. Shooting…