Chris Packham was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning – listen here, 9mins in to programme. Wild Justice’s website is live – click here. Wild Justice has a Twitter handle: @wildjustice_org Wild Justice’s first press release – click here.
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Wild Justice is launched
Wild Justice is launched today. It is a not-for-profit company set up by Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and me. More on what we are going to do through the day, but here is our (first ever) press release: Wild Justice, a not-for-profit company set up by; TV presenter, photographer and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham CBE;…
NEWS: bad news for grouse shooting
It seems we have another five weeks or so to wait until the long, long, long awaited analysis of NE’s Hen Harrier tagging data is published. But the title of the paper ‘Patterns of satellite tagged hen harrier disappearances suggest widespread illegal killing on British grouse moors’ is somewhat revealing. No doubt Michael Gove and…
Smart bird needs help!
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To help the World Land Trust save this species – through protecting its habitat – please click here for more information and the opportunity to donate.
Recent guest blogs
Guest blogs – don’t you just love them? I do, they save me some work and help create a diverse series of views on this blog (as do those who comment here). In the last 10 days I’ve been able to publish four varied and excellent guest blogs. I’d like to thank all four authors…
Guest blog – Greener UK by Shaun Spiers
Shaun Spiers joined Green Alliance as director in June 2017, after 13 years as chief executive of CPRE. From 1994-99 he was a Member of the European Parliament, serving on the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. Shaun is the author of How to build houses and save the countryside (reviewed here) and a trustee of…
Paul Leyland – Elephant Hawk Moth
Paul writes: on a warm summer evening I like to sit in my garden with a light on and see what moths will come in. One of the best to arrive is the Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor). It makes its presence known quickly. Most moths will spend some time flying around before settling on the…
Sunday Book review – The Worshipful Companies by Stuart Medland
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Reviewed by Ian Carter This landscape format book is the second in a series on Norfolk wildlife by the same author. It deals with the Norfolk coast and combines photographs of wildlife (mostly birds) and poems, with a short accompanying text. The ‘worshipful companies’ bit is his comparison of the different bird species with medieval…
Tim Melling – Siberian Weasel
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Tim writes: This is a Siberian Weasel (Mustela sibirica) photographed at night by torchlight in the forests at Labahe, Sichuan in China. It was at an altitude of c2000m above sea level. This is the one and only individual that I have seen, and judging by the scarcity of wild photographs, it appears that they…
Guest blog series, A Break from Humanity (11) by Ian Carter.
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Continued from last Saturday Down on a remote stretch of rocky coastline, away from the woodland I had walked through, the feel of the place was very different. The magic of the woodland on the slopes above was closed off from view by a shielding canopy of leaves, and the wood itself was dwarfed by…