Standing up for Nature
After more than a year, Natural England are beginning to come clean about their role in the Bowland Gull Cull (see here for series of earlier blogs). This is the letter I received from NE last Monday afternoon. At face value, this might give the impression that there was no consent for a gull cull. …
Paul writes: Robberflies, as the name suggests, are predatory flies and their main source of food is other insects. They usually perch up, waiting for a suitable victim, then once found make a flying hop onto the prey. The flies have a short strong proboscis, which they use to stab their kill and inject it…
This is where I’ll be on Sunday 12 August – looks like a good day and we might see some birds too!
Note: Starts 1130 – due to train timetable changes
A week today the grouse shooting season opens (although because it’s Sunday there won’t be any shooting). I wrote this book, Inglorious, to document the ills of driven grouse shooting and to help energise a movement for change. We aren’t there yet – but we are getting closer all the time. Thank you to everyone…
Tim writes: this small owl inhabits in the boreal forest zone across Scandinavia, Siberia and North America, nesting in old woodpecker holes or nest boxes. Although it is relatively numerous it is one of Europe’s most difficult owls to see as it is largely nocturnal, though in the short summer nights at high latitudes it…
The letter below was sent to nine travel companies asking them whether they would sign up. So far we have seven signatures and two refusals (see below). I have no beef with the two companies, so far, who have said a polite ‘no’. All companies are different, they face different constraints and signing this letter…