Tim writes: Chinese Mountain Cat (also known as Chinese Desert or Steppe Cat) is a rare and little-known species that is endemic to a small area of western central China on the north-east edge of the Tibetan Plateau. They occur at high altitude (2800-4100 m asl) in grasslands and are mainly nocturnal and wary. I…
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Confidence?
A good chunk of biological reality puts government in its place. As a biologist, though far from an epidemiologist, I listen to government ministers, radio presenters, a rag bag of political pundits, talking about coronavirus and I just keep thinking ‘You don’t have a clue what you are talking about, do you? You said that…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Lost in the post…?
I’m gutted of course not to have received my invitation to this important event organised by the GWCT. Let’s hope the report is more accurate than the invitation. You’d think that the GWCT would know, somehow, that their chair, the often-amiable Sir James Paice, was never the Secretary of State for DEFRA but was the…
A new suite of e-petitions
The petitions site re-opened yesterday for those wishing to petition the UK parliament. Here are some that caught my eye yesterday evening: Publish the Russia report, 23,953 signatures Make Hedgehogs a Protected Species, 6557 signatures Legal rights for ancient trees, 1607 signatures Don’t criminalise trespass, 157 signatures We call on DEFRA, to reinstate the ban…