Standing up for Nature
RSPB press release: NATURE FOR #1 Pure birdsong soars into UK charts Let Nature Sing from The RSPB enters the midweek chart at number 11 Buy/ stream now here Music history looks set to be made this week as the first ever release of pure birdsong soars into the UK charts. Let Nature Sing by…
Paul Sterry. Rob Read. Authors and photographers, Paul and Rob spearhead the international competition Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) whose lead judge is Chris Packham. Spring in Ramridge Copse. Photo: Rob Read. Rob lives in the quaintly-named Hampshire village of Ragged Appleshaw and one of his local patches is nearby Ramridge Copse, an extensive…
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I know it’s a terrible photograph (you’ll get some more excellent ones tomorrow morning) but I’m quite proud of it since it was taken on my phone and if you look very hard you can see… … the tiny single orange egg of an Orange Tip butterfly on the Garlic Mustard or Jack-by-the-Hedge in the…
Where is NE heading with the licensing of bird-killing under General Licences? It’s difficult to tell, and we’ll have to see. However, the claim that it will all be business as usual already looks unlikely to be true. Charlotte Smith: will it be harder to get a licence? Marian Spain, Natural England: it shouldn’t be…
Paul writes: I found this bee on 18 April among the gravestones at my local church in Hunmanby, which seemed quite appropriate. The Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons) is a solitary bee and a cleptoparasite of one of our most popular bees, the Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes). The female makes a hole in the sealed…
The Natural England decision to revoke the long-standing General Licences came out of the blue for Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and me (the three co-directors of the not for profit company, Wild Justice) as it did for everyone else. We had no warning of what they were going to announce beforehand (which I think was…
Following the success of the Wild Justice legal challenge over the General Licensing system that Natural England has operated, there has been an outpouring of abuse towards anybody to do with this case (and some who have had nothing to do with it) in the press and on social media. But some of the same…
Tim writes: This is one of the largest King Penguin breeding colonies on the planet. It is at a place called Salisbury Plain on the British Dependency island of South Georgia. King Penguins take about 14-16 months from egg-laying to fledging, so only nest once every two years. But this means there can be eggs,…
Songbirds and science The following blog is based partly on the witness statement from Wild Justice (passages in red) which was part of the claim issued to the court on 21 March (and emailed to Natural England although they will not have had a formal sealed document for some time after that due to court…