Standing up for Nature
Our appeal on brood meddling? We are still waiting to hear something from the courts. I wouldn’t want you to think that I had dropped this appeal, it’s just that the legal system is quite slow. The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine Whatever the resolution of this case, you will hear…
A wake up call in our National Parks for our politicians Campaign for National Parks, the only national, independent charity dedicated to protecting and enhancing the National Parks in England and Wales, has urged Government to demonstrate leadership on the future of National Parks. The call follows the first day of the UK National Parks…
It’s worth having a look at this blog on the Wild Justice website. A review of the impact of various avian predators (currently covered by General Licence 1 in Scotland) was carried out by the BTO for SNH. The review looks pretty good but its summary is quite misleading – it is the equivalent of…
I think I’ll go to the Climate Strike event outside BBC Radio Northampton on Friday. It means a long bus ride there and back but…hey…why not? Maybe there’s one near you? Check here.
I’ve gone to my favourite blackberry patch a couple of times this year (and we have blackberries growing in the garden too – which tells you something about our garden). Friday, all things being equal, is the best day of the week for this as it is furthest away from the previous weekend when the…
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…
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 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…
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 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…