The first Fin Whales (two of them) to be landed in Iceland since 2018 were brought ashore yesterday morning. The total quota is 193 whales – 161 for this year plus some extra as there were no whales killed last year. See article here with quite a lot of pictures.
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Guest blog – Shifting Baselines by Roderick Leslie
I started birdwatching at 12, leading to a career in the Forestry Commission where I led on Environment and Recreation. I was a member of RSPB Council and co-authored the Poyser ‘Birds and Forestry’ with Mark. Now most of my birdwatching is in a magic valley in the Languedoc swarming with Nightingale, Turtle Dove, Corn…
Guest blog – HS2 and Jones Hill Wood by Dominic Woodfield
Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well-respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is a life-long birder, a specialist in botany, habitat restoration and creation and in protected fauna including bats, herpetofauna and other species. He is also a highly experienced practitioner in Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations…
Press release – Flying kites: the UK’s most successful bird conservation project returns the favour – and chicks – to Spain
The UK’s most successful bird conservation project – for red kites – has come full circle and is now donating kite chicks to a similar project in Spain, the country that provided chicks for our red kite reintroduction project to England almost 35 years ago. In 1989, an ambitious project began to restore red kite…
The new RSPB logo – what do you think of it?
The RSPB has a new logo and has explained the thinking behind it – click here. What do you think? Here is a one question poll with five answers – click here.