The weather forecast (Saturday morning) is good for tomorrow – it’s going to be a bit windy today! We’ll be checking the forecast and suggest you do too! An update from Carsington at midday Saturday was that the weather then was ‘Very wet and not a little windy’ but that the forecast was better for…
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Press release from Campaign for Freedom of Information
Government urged to drop post-Brexit prohibition on environmental disclosure Thirty six leading environmental, open government and other organisations have urged the government to drop a secrecy provision from draft legislation to improve environmental protection after Brexit. The organisations say the prohibition on disclosure “is wholly at odds with the public’s right to information” under existing…
SNH hands out non-toxic ammunition to goose shooters
This story about a Greylag Goose cull on Orkney caught my eye (largely because someone sent it to me – thank you!). I don’t know enough about the reasons behind the cull to comment on whether it is the least bit sensible but I was interested to see that the goose carcasses were to be…
Even more than you thought…
GWCT have just published a paper revising the number of released Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges released into the UK. Instead of there being roughly 50 million non-native gamebirds released into the UK countryside at this time of year, the figure has now (2016 estimates) risen to closer to 60 million (47m Pheasants and 10m Red-legged…
GWCT comes clean on lead
The move by Waitrose to require its game suppliers to supply game meat that has not been shot with lead ammunition from the 2020/21 shooting season is likely to have considerable knock-on impacts. The GWCT is the leading scientific authority used by the shooting industry and, for example, restaurants that sell game. For example, when…
Guest blog – Bermuda Petrel by Paul Sterry
Bird Photographer of the Year and the Bermuda Petrel The Cahow (to give it its local name) is Bermuda’s national bird and over the years this exquisite grey Pterodroma petrel has acquired almost mythical status, thanks to its remarkable story. Thought to be extinct for over three centuries, it was rediscovered and then brought back…
Tortoise media – try this article for a taste.
Read Simon Barnes’s long article on Sir David Attenborough. Tortoise is a great idea – I’ve signed up.
Country Life makes a lot of sense
This is a very well-written and fairly accurate editorial in Country Life magazine. You’ll see that it says many of the things that I have said myself in the blog post before this one. I’d written all of that blog before I saw the Country Life editorial so I was interested to see how similar…
Poor prospects for Red Grouse shooting – short, medium and long term
According to this round-up by Guns on Pegs this looks like being a poor year for Red Grouse shooting in most parts of the UK – the second year in a row. This looks like it is probably due to the weather – and the types of extreme weather events that haven’t helped this year…