Standing up for Nature
As we head towards our two days in court on 5 and 6 December (when our judicial review of NE’s daft licensing of brood meddling will be heard – do indicate here if you are likely to attend) the latest milestone along the way has just been passed. We’ve received what I believe are called…
Each year, the US Fish and Widlife Service (hmmm – maybe we could have something a bit like that one day?) produces an analysis of the economic value of hunting, fishing and wildlife watching. Wildlife-watching is apparently worth almost as much to the economy through expenditure on cameras, bird food, binoculars and travel as are…
One of the proposals in Kate Bradbury’s Urban Spaces section in the Manifesto for Wildlife is for ‘Hedgehog holes to be made compulsory in all new fencing‘. This is one of the simplest, most practical and dead easy recommendations in the whole manifesto. And another of the ‘ministers’ involved in the Manifesto for Wildlife, Hugh…
Blog posts titled Wuthering Moors are about the issue of burning of blanket bogs by grouse shooting estates (e.g. Wuthering Moors 28, 15 October 2012), the inability of the government agency Natural England to do its job properly on regulating landowners on protected moorland sites (Wuthering Moors 68 – the background to an unlawful decision,…
I’ve never used an autocue but they can work out a bit badly. I’m pretty sure that Michael Gove said in his speech something about saving the environment from a Conservative government. Well, maybe he said something about how there is lots of action, to save the environment, from a Conservative government. Maybe the autocue…