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The RSPB has this evening published an eyewitness account of the killing of an adult Hen Harrier in Bowland last October. Read it and weep! I’ve known about this case for quite a while and I know the eyewitness as one of the many raptor enthusiasts in the Bowland area. By chance, the area where…

Last week, on Friday and Sunday evenings BASC spokesmen were talking about what BASC was doing to rid their membership of wildlife criminals. Both Duncan Thomas and Steve Bloomfield were saying that BASC were doing their bit. I know both of them a little, I’ve met and talked to them, and I’d be more inclined…

This video was posted earlier this week and it made me smile but, because I am a bit dull, it also made me frown slightly too. As a piss-take it’s quite amusing but I have two problems with it (because I am so dull – no fun at all!). First it’s a bit unfair to…

Farming for nature pays off for Wimpole Rare farmland bird numbers double in six years Invertebrate numbers increase by over a third in 13 years Farmland sequesters high levels of carbon while producing food and making a profit Nature and soil health are flourishing at the National Trust’s Wimpole Home Farm near Cambridge according to…

Wouldn’t it be terrible if the GWCT went bust? In a recent letter to supporters, who clearly aren’t being supportive enough, Teresa Dent has told them that GWCT has a hole in its finances. Well, who would have thought it? Anyone would have thought that there was a global financial and health crisis… Maybe the…