Simon Hart MP is the former Chief Exec of the Countryside Alliance. To be fair, he was probably the best CEO they ever had, or are ever likely to have, but that doesn’t mean he is in my ‘Top 10 blokes of 2015’. In an organ that I rarely even see, let alone read, it…
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2015 – the Hen Harrier year in pictures
The conflict between driven grouse shooting and Hen Harriers like Henry (or rather, not very like Henry) is a real one. Hen Harriers eat enough grouse seriously to reduce grouse bags when they are shot for fun. Grouse shooting interests illegally kill enough Hen Harriers in the UK to reduce their population to c6-800 pairs…
Henry’s year in images
The conflict between driven grouse shooting and Hen Harriers like Henry (or rather, not very like Henry) is a real one. Hen Harriers eat enough grouse seriously to reduce grouse bags when they are shot for fun. Grouse shooting interests illegally kill enough Hen Harriers in the UK to reduce their population to c6-800 pairs…
I will lift up my eyes unto the hills…
‘I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my floods’ As the Moorland Association brags, 70% of the UK’s drinking water comes from the uplands – so do 70% of the UK’s floods, for water has the habit of flowing downhill. The River Ouse flowing through York, or over York, is…
Guest blog – The taming of nature by Steven Robinson
I occasionally post on Mark’s blog as Apus Apus. I live in London and do not work in the conservation sector. I like swifts, birds of prey, trees, wolves, trophic cascades, LACS and Richard Mabey. I have written a guest blog, as I would like to see more naturalness in UK conservation. I have used…
2015 – a bad year for driven grouse shooting
Few Red Grouse were shot in the UK this year, mainly because of disease and bad weather. But regardless of grouse bags, this was a very bad year for driven grouse shooting and hastened the end of this worthless hobby. The case against driven grouse shooting is that it depends on intensive management that involves…
Oscar Dewhurst – Grizzly Bear
Oscar writes: This is the mother grizzly bear that I mentioned in my last photo (grizzly bear 610 for those interested!). Having realised that we weren’t going to see them from the dirt road we’d taken we moved on down the road. It soon became apparent that we hadn’t seen the last of them though,…
The best (?) of Oscar Dewhurst’s 2015 images
Thank you to Oscar for all his images this year – and a new one will appear at 6pm today.
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2015 in the Birdwatch readers’ Blog of the year 2015 – July-Dec
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This is the review of the second half of 2015 through the writings of this blog (for Jan-June) – click here for first half of year. July: The Committee on Climate Change criticise the intensive management of grouse moors because of carbon emissions (see here and here). NGOs across the EU rally together to defend…