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Mary Colwell is an award winning radio, TV and internet producer winning 14 awards over the last 5 years, including a Sony Gold in 2009.  She is also a radio presenter and feature writer for The Tablet. Mary has written three previous guest blogs here (A Natural History GCSE, 23 November 2012; Shared Planet, 15…

About a month ago a group of independent experts , under the leadership of Chris Packham, published a People’s Manifesto for Wildlife. Many of us have written to our MPs asking thenm for their views (not for a party politrical broadcast in favour of the current government) and those responses are slowly coming home to…

Hugh Warwick’s e-petition in favour of Hedgehog Highways is approaching a third of a million signatures!  Fantastic work! Fantastic support! I regret that it isn’t on the Westminster parliament website because if it reached anything like that number there (which it might not for a variety of reasons) then it would have even more clout….

That nice Michael Gove wants to know what you think about National Parks in England (I think in England – I’ve only had a quick look). The consultation looks easy enouh to complete and we have ages to do so – two months. I’ll be coming back to this with some thoughts on how to…

Martin Harper’s blog carries a rapid account of the AGM but it has attracted more comments than usual. In Martin’s answers to comments he confirms that the RSPB is moving towards there being 200-300 fewer staff in three years’ time than now. This was not a figure that was revealed to the membership at the…