Walk for Wildlife – 22 September
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Sunday book review – Wilding by Isabella Tree
This book, out of 40+ I reviewed in 2018, was the title I chose as my wildlife book of the year – I recommend it highly. You can buy this book from Bookshop.org and I have set up a booklist to make that easy through this link https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/MarkAvery Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org…
Tim Melling – Siberian Jay
Tim writes; As the name suggests, this species occurs in the boreal forest zone across Siberia but also occurs in northern Scandinavia. They occur at low densities and are not easy to find, but when you do find them they can be incredibly confiding. This one is eating a tiny caterpillar and we also saw…
Shoddy misportrayal by BBC Radio 4 – not for the first time.
The Radio 4 Today programme is making a habit of attending the Game Fair and it covered quite a lot of ground, some of it quite well, this morning. Well done to Georgia Locock for speaking up against intensive grouse shooting. Georgia, a first-year undergraduate, was put up against 33 year-old, experienced spokesperson for shooting,…
Worth a small celebration #justice4henharriers
We have been given leave by the Hon Mrs Justice Lambert DBE to take our judicial review to court. We’ll soon find out what the date is, but it won’t be before October, it might not be before Christmas, but an autumn day in court is most likely. It appears that the RSPB will…
Some updates
Just a few updates: no response from NE on this (Bowland gull cull) – but they did only promise it by the end of July so we’ll have to be patient sadly, the Arne HHDay event has bitten the dust – which is a great shame. Other events are available – see here. on Saturday…
IFAW press release – Minke whaling in Iceland has stopped
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Minke whaling in Iceland has stopped (London – 27 July, 2018) – Hunting of minke whales has ended in Iceland. Media sources reported today that cost and poor profits has made whaling no longer economically viable closing the local whaling industry. “This is very good news for minke whales and Iceland,” said Sigursteinn Masson, Iceland…
Teresa?
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Dent‘s 4am wake-up call sounds like “shotgun” – Westmorland Gazette
So exciting…!
Friday afternoon, around 1630, is the peak time for NE to reply to my FOI/EIR requests. Since we are promised a response by the end of July my guess is that it will either be late this afternoon or last thing on Tuesday. And of course it will have been worth waiting for nearly 13…
Guest blog – Local tours for local people… by Ian Parsons
I read the recent comments about wildlife tour companies and Iceland, following a blog on the Birdfair that Mark then converted into a blog, with interest (see also further later comments). I run a small wildlife tour business myself and therefore found it particularly relevant to what I do. I would like to point out…