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Hen Harrier Day 2019
Some more information here. List of speakers increasing all the time.
Guest blog – Farmland Tax Breaks Revealed by Miles King
Miles King is Chief Executive of People Need Nature a charity working to highlight the sensory, emotional and spiritual values of nature. He has worked in nature conservation for 30 years, leading the conservation work at Plantlife, The Grasslands Trust and Buglife. He has also worked for English Nature, Natural England and as a consultant….
Yesterday
Yesterday I drove up to Wheldrake Ings to have a chat with the Countryfile crew (above, Charlotte Smith on right) about Wild Justice. I was listening to The Jam’s ‘News of the World’ just before I stopped at the Ferrybridge Services and saw this news of a Hen Harrier that died with its leg in…
A bit misty
I carried out the ‘late’ visit to one of my two Breeding Bird Survey squares earlier this week – on a rather misty Monday morning. But it’s a good job I did because the next morning it was tipping down with rain and the next two mornings I was either heading to London (for a…
Readers’ summer survey
I do this now and again, and this survey of your views is based on a previous one which I published in 2016 so it will be interesting to see how your views on Brexit, rewilding, climate change, grouse shooting, badger culls and more have changed. The survey also asks you for your gender and…
British Wildlife – June issue
The June issue of British Wildlife contains the usual mixture of news, comment, research and analysis. As always it’s a fascinating mixture. I turned to Derek Gow’s and Peter Cooper’s article on Wildcats in England first – fascinating stuff. British Wildlife now has a group of regular columnists and here are some quotes from their…
Flows (2)
This area of bog and cotton grass used to be a conifer plantation. Who’d have known? Thirty- three years ago when I first worked in the Flow Country of Sutherland and Caithness I often drove along the road north of Lairg which heads past Crask Inn to Altnaharra where you have the choice of continuing…
Guest blog – The (new) M4 is no more! by Ian Rappel
Ian Rappel is a conservationist and activist of 25 years. He’s currently Chief Executive for Gwent Wildlife Trust, and lives in Talgarth on the northern fringes of the Black Mountains. In March 2017 he wrote a guest blog here entitled ‘15 miles of What?! Where?‘ This might sound like a strange recommendation at first, but…
BTO press release
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As part of a project to discover what might be driving the decline in UK Cuckoo numbers, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has fitted four of these iconic birds with satellite tags. These tags will enable BTO researchers to follow the Cuckoos as they make their way to the Congo rainforest, where they winter,…