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Helen Kirk is passionate about environmental conservation and wildlife. She is a peatland campaigner and field naturalist. Growing up on a farm on the periphery of Hatfield Moors, and attending school in the 1970s where visits to Thorne Moors were frequent, saw Helen cut her teeth in terms of natural history interest and later campaigning…

More about Hen Harrier Day Online 2020: things to get involved with Here’s an update about Hen Harrier Day 2020. Since Covid-19 first struck, the folk at Hen Harrier Action have been planning an online event, and it’s going to be fantastic. Sadly, nearly all of the planned events on the ground have had to…

RSPB Scotland welcomes expert advisory group’s recommendation to invest in nature Today, the Scottish Government’s Economic Advisory Group published its initial advice to the Government on a green recovery after Covid-19. RSPB Scotland, Scotland’s largest nature conservation organisation, welcomes the general direction of the report and recommendations.  Given the ongoing nature and climate emergency the…

This review, which is quite important, was published on World Ocean Day two weeks ago. It gained a lot of acclaim at the time and this was pretty well-deserved. The group (which I said at the time it was set up, back in July 2019, looked like a good one), chaired by former Environment minister…

I said that we bought a live Christmas tree in a pot last December and the idea is to keep it alive and use it again, slightly larger, next Christmas. Having passed the summer solstice it is now down hill all the way to the winter solstice, but the good news is that the tree…