Standing up for Nature
The crowdfunder by The Seahorse Trust (see Guest blog here) has passed £10,000 and is heading towards its target of £12,000 with 8 days to go to raise the balance. I wish them success!
This paper is interesting, Wildlife, human and environmental costs of using lead ammunition: An economic review and analysis Here is the abstract, with my choice of highlighted words, A proposed European Union (EU)-wide restriction on the use of lead gunshot for shooting in and over wetlands estimated that the societal benefits of a restriction outweighed…
Traditional pack of hounds and riders on Dartmoor 2014. There is no suggestion intended that the individuals who appear in this image were, are, or ever have been engaged in illegal activities. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but was inspired to finish it by watching Chris Packham’s video, filmed at a…
Wild Justice has, today, become the 51st member of Wildlife and Countryside Link.
I haven’t been out much recently but yesterday morning I had a walk around my local patch of Stanwick Lakes and the star bird was the Sand Martin – there were hundreds of them! Sand Martin – in flight meal. Photo: Tim Melling In fact, a local birder who gets out earlier than I, said…
The latest in a series of fumbling performances by the biodiversity minister. Would Therese Coffey ever have got her job if there had been an interview which explored the candidate’s knowledge and suitability for the role? It’s a relief that as a Parliamentary Under Secretary we only pay her £96,375 for such consistently sparkling performances….
On my walk around Stanwick Lakes this morning, in a cold northeasterly wind, I saw a pair of Sparrowhawks do a bit of half-hearted display, and a Red Kite cruised past, and Kestrel and Peregrine are always possibilities, but if I had see five Goshawks I would have been very surprised. Gos is on my…
I’m sure you share my gratitude to our politicians that they have handled this difficult issue so well and that the environmental issues wrapped up in our future have been given such a high profile over the last almost three years. It makes me very proud of the UK.
I gave BASC some credit for their rapid condemnation of the killing of Hen Harriers after the publication of the analysis of the NE satellite-tagging data. But now that Duncan Thomas has voiced his views, presumably his employer’s views too, on TV, along the lines of ‘there’s a tiny amount of persecution occurring and we…
The Walshaw Moor Estate has withdrawn its clearly flawed planning proposal for a new track across Walshaw Moor. This brings to an end the latest chapter of this long-running story in which this blog has played its part. And this article in the local Burnley Express shows moorland monitors visiting Walshaw Moor.