Somerset’s farmers make hay when the birds fly The picturesque hay-meadows of the Somerset Moors and Levels are the largest wetlands in England home to many waders and some of the rarest birds on Earth A quarter of the global population of curlews can be found in the UK, but breeding numbers have dropped dramatically…
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A Bluffer’s Guide to Agriculture Policy (3)
Forget how we got to this place, the consensus is that it’s not the best place possible and so Brexit gives the UK a better opportunity to come up with a better way of spending taxpayers’ money on land management. Michael Gove has latched on to the mantra of ‘Public money for public goods’ as…
Loads of money!
I see that I started being a Blackwell’s affiliate in March 2017 – about 18 months ago. If you buy books from Blackwell’s using the links in my posts (mostly in book reviews) then I’ll get a small cut of what you spend. That’ll obviously be nice for me and it may allow you to…
#PeoplesManifestoforWildlife – what they say
the Countryside Alliance don’t like it – although there is no indication of what they think is wrong with the document except that Chris Packham had a lot to do with it! Both Tim Bonner and Liam Stokes took to Twitter to be snide about Chris (and I guess the rest of the contributors, but…
Listen #ThePeoplesManifestoforWildlife
You can listen to several of the authors of chapters in The People’s Manifesto for Wildlife on the LUSH Soapbox in a podcast by Charlie Moores. The voices are : Chris Packham Maya-Rose Craig Carol Day Amy-Jane Beer Bella Lack Dominic Dyer Miles King Dave Goulson Ruth Peacey myself