Standing up for Nature
Time is running short to order signed copies of Remarkable Birds – the ideal Christmas present for so many people! Stocks are getting lower all the time and I won’t be able to order more copies from the publisher and then get them to you before Christmas when current stocks run out. So, if you…
Tim writes: I have just returned from a trip to Sichuan in China where I managed to photograph this wild Red Panda crossing a track between bamboo thickets. They live in high altitude forests (2000-3000m) where they feed mainly on bamboo. In autumn they venture out of the bamboo thickets to feed on rosehips. I…
I attended a lovely memorial event for Peter Melchett this morning after two days in the Royal Courts of Justice battling against Natural England’s brood meddling licensing decision (a third day is needed – we don’t know when that will be yet (see short account in today’s Times, page 23)). I learned some new things…
Our judicial review of brood meddling needs a third day. We don’t yet know when that day might be. More information when I have more information.
This blog has reviewed 41 books this year (and many thanks to Ian Carter for his reviews). My selection of the ‘top 4’ books of the year is as follows; Number 4 A tour-de-force of clear writing about a technical subject. Deserves to be widely read. Which birds are related to which others most closely?…
Stephen Moss is one of Britain’s leading nature writers, broadcasters and wildlife television producers. He was the founding producer of Springwatch, and has written a stream of wildlife books (eg see Tweet of the Day (with Brett Westwood), Natural Histories (also with Brett Westwood), and Wild Kingdom). A lifelong naturalist, he is passionate about communicating…
A fairly sensible response from Defra is now beginning to find its way back to MPs and their constituents. Here, below is one sent me by a reader of this blog and I had a very similar letter at the weekend too. Those of you who have written to your MPs and not taken their…
It’s a busy week. I’m giving a talk to the mid-Norfolk Wildlife Trust group on Tuesday evening – see you there? Maybe I’ll fit in a bit of birding on the way there but I’ll be back home late and then up early for an early train from Wellingborough station to the High Court. I…
Waitrose are selling game with a health warning about lead shot on the pack (admittedly the bottom of the pack) but that is good, and worth a cheer or two. But the health warning is inaccurate – see here, here, here – which is bad. Waitrose said they were looking into it – that’s good…