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A fun evening in Chesterfield
Yesterday evening I headed off to Chesterfield to talk to a local group of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. It was a fun evening and it’s good to talk in or near upland areas where the issues are local ones. There was a good turn out of people and I was speaking in a church hall…
Meanwhile in Scotland…
DEFRA is in denial over the ills of driven grouse shooting – they haven’t even made it to base camp yet and admitted that wildlife crime is out of control on English grouse moors. Without accepting the problem, and without accepting it as their problem, we can’t expect any action from the grouse shooter’s moll…
Labour on driven grouse shooting – shhhhhhhhh!
The English MP who is the Hen Harrier champion is Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. She has, in the past, been an outspoken critic of killing of birds of prey, especially in her own Peak District constituency. Angela was also one of very few non-Conservative MPs to speak in the Westminster Hall debate…
Wind power and nuclear
I read today’s Guardian piece by Adam Vaughan about the cost of offshore wind energy dipping below that of nuclear energy. That sounds like good news, and news that I don’t think we all expected say 10-15 years ago when these issues were very live. Those who argued for renewable energy were right to say…
Makes me smile every time…
This sign is used for various country fairs across the land and it is used every year. As birders head north to the Norfolk coast to enjoy whatever migrants are hopping around in bushes between Holme and Cromer, many see this sign and it reminds them of… a Sandringham estate gamekeeper being convicted of setting…
Peak District National Park takes note?
Just as the Yorkshire Dales NP recently consulted the public on its way forward, so too did the Peak District NP. Although the PDNP has so far been less open than the YDNP on the results of its consultation, this blog understands that new ‘Areas of Impact’ (ghastly jargon) have been inserted into the plan…
Looking forward to talking in Chesterfield tomorrow evening
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Yorkshire Dales have a lead mountain to climb.
As the Yorkshire Dales National Park drags itself, with the help of a public consultation, towards the twenty-first century it may have to work very hard on some of its board members to take the journey. Adrian Thornton-Berry is a member of the YDNP Management Plan Steering group committee, a Moorland Association committee member and…
Two Manx Hen Harriers die of natural causes
It does happen – it’s strange that we don’t hear more about Hen Harriers dying of natural causes. The RSPB has released information on the deaths of two young Hen Harriers satellite-tagged (as chicks) this year. Mannin failed to complete the sea crossing between the IoM and SW Scotland whereas Grayse died on the IoM…