Standing up for Nature
Andrew Langley’s fantastic fund-raising deal of a quadrupling of all donations has very, very nearly reached his target of £5000 – he’s just £70 short. And that means he is just £280 short of raising £20,000 for the World Land Trust’s Jungle for Jaguars appeal. I’m sure he’ll get that £70 very soon. The Big…
It’s the RSPB AGM on Saturday. You can attend the morning AGM, which is not as dull as it may sound, and in fact is always a rather uplifting event, for free if you are a fully paid up member. I am, and I’ll be there (although I promised myself when I left the RSPB…
I rarely listen to Farming Today on the radio even though I am almost always awake when it airs (before 6am). That’s for two reasons – it’s my most productive time of day so I am usually writing something and the programme is so irritating (although, since I rarely listen (except when someone tells me…
Ros Coward is an author, journalist, Emerita Professor of Journalism and nature lover. She was a columnist on the Guardian for many years often writing on environmental issues. She is author of, amongst other books, The Whole Truth: the myth of alternative health (Faber) and Nature Matters; collected articles on the environment (Desman Books). The…
Six years ago today the RSPB made its complaint to the European Commission about burning practices at Walshaw Moor and many other driven grouse moors in the UK (See Wuthering Moors 28, 15 October 2012). The RSPB deserves great respect for this important move (even though it is very quiet about it itself these days)….