Standing up for Nature
Tim writes: what’s the difference between a Weasel and a Stoat? I remember the old joke from my childhood about one being weasily recognised as the other is stoatally different but they are not easy to separate unless you get a good view. Weasels are small, from head to tail ranging from 21-27cm including a…
http://www.paulthomascartoons.co.uk/
It’s a bit of a pity that today’s Farming Today piece was introduced as a legal challenge to Pheasant shooting because it isn’t – it is a legal challenge against Defra and their failure to assess the ecological impacts of gamebird releases. But apart from that I’m happy with the interview I did for Farming…
See this Wild Justice blog post.
Paul Sterry has an academic background in freshwater biology and is a passionate conservationist. He has been writing about natural history and photographing wildlife for the last 40 years, with an emphasis on the British scene. He now has a string of beautifully illustrated guest blogs here. Wildflower Verge or Colourful Eyesore? I don’t regard…
Back in 2017 I wrote this blog post – it’s worth a re-read I think because I was surprised (I’d forgotten, these things don’t stay with me very long) how vitriolic the shooting industry can get. In that blog, I wrote this; Some in the shooting industry think that I have broken that promise but…
See this piece by Patrick Barkham in the Guardian.
It was a strange day in the closing moments of the current Prime Minister’s time in office. Listening to the media I got the impression that Jeremy Corbyn was asking lots of questions about climate change and that Mrs May was avoiding them and keeping coming back to anti-semiticism in the Labour Party (a party…
This blog is based on Mike Alibone’s blog on the same subject – a must read every week (or more) for Northants birders and with enough interesting information to be of wider than local interest. I’ve become a little blase about Cattle Egrets in the last 12 months as there have been regular sightings of…
