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Photo: Luke Dray/Woodland Trust The sun is shining where I am this Saturday lunchtime but the rain didn’t make any difference to the feelings of hope and happiness that I felt as one of the #soddententhousand last weekend.  What a great event it was. There have been a whole lot of discussions and inititiatives started…

This blog runs a writing competition each year.  This year, your task, should you choose to accept it, is to write a short essay on which is the ‘best’ month for enjoying wildlife (or alternatively, the ‘worst’ one). A few rules: Entries should be sent as WORD (.doc or .docx) attachments to emails sent to…

This blog runs a writing competition each year.  This year, your task, should you choose to accept it, is to write a short essay on which is the ‘best’ month for enjoying wildlife (or alternatively, the ‘worst’ one). A few rules: Entries should be sent as WORD (.doc or .docx) attachments to emails sent to…

…except, of course, grouse shooters. The Labour Party is calling for one – see here page 12. Les Wallace has a petition on the subject – see here and please sign.

On Monday the heather burning season opens and the hills will start to be torched. In the Labour Party’s Green Transformation document, launched last week at the Labour Conference in Liverpool,  it states ‘End rotational heather burning and launch an independent review into the economic, environmental and wildlife impacts of driven grouse shooting‘. You will…