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Guest blog – Ethical hunters? by Hugh Webster
Hugh writes: I recently took a break from teaching and returned to work for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (on twitter @BPCTcamp) as a research coordinator, living and working in the bush on the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, having completed the field work for my PhD at the same field site between…
NGO letter prompted May to go to the country
Last week, 11 environmental NGOs wrote to TM the PM and then she called a general election. Here is the letter: Dear Prime Minister, We are alarmed by recent media reports suggesting that the UK’s commitments to tackling climate change and ending the illegal wildlife trade could be watered down to secure post-Brexit trade…
A general election for the environment?
Have you spotted that there is going to be a UK general election this June? I bet you have. This will allow all the political parties to set out their environmental policies so that we can choose between them – in theory. Don’t hold your breath! I will be rather surprised if Labour has any…
Tim Melling – Black Grouse
This male was flying into a lek in North Wales taken while I was using the car as a hide. They make two different noises while lecking. They make a constant bubbling call, interspersed with a harsh hissing chooweee, and I can confirm that this bird with its open beak was hissing. Photographing lecking birds…
Tim Melling – Ring Ousel
I took this photograph on Easter Sunday while it was actually raining. Most people seemed to avoid the Peak District Moors in grim weather but I braved it and was rewarded with this close view. I sat quietly in the lee of a drystone wall by a wind-stunted Rowan tree and waited for about twenty…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (4) – by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Press release from the Environmental Funders Network
Starts: Caroline Lucas and Sir David Attenborough top list of ‘Environmental Heroes’ for Earth Day London, 19th April 2017: Ahead of Earth Day 2017 (22 April), CEOs from the UK’s leading environmental charities have voted for their ‘Environmental Heroes’ as part of the Pulse Survey conducted by the Environmental Funders Network. Caroline Lucas,…
Bird flu update
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In the last four weeks there has only been one identified case of bird flu in wild birds in the UK and that was a Mute Swan in Somerset towards the beginning of that 4-week period. DEFRA state that earlier in the year there were as many as 55 dead birds per week being submitted…