Standing up for Nature
I asked what you thought of the new RSPB logo and this is how you responded: Those figures ought to please the RSPB – a majority of people are positive and very few hate it. And let’s be clear, everyone will get used to it. This poll wasn’t a carefully selected representative sample of the…
Ian Carter has written often on this blog (see this collection of blogs on Wild Food, and this other collection about getting away from it all, as well as on rewilding, fox hunting and Hen Harrier reintroductions) and I have reviewed his previous books Human Nature, and Red Kite’s Year. Given that, it would be…
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.
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…
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…