Standing up for Nature
We popped around to see the SLE, Scottish Land and Estates, but there was no-one in. Henry doesn’t really get weekends. He had a look through the window and couldn’t see any sign of life. Henry asked me why there was a Job Centre Plus just round the corner and I really couldn’t say. I…
Left as a present by Henry on top of a grouse butt on Snilesworth moor. Vote for Hen Harrier as our national bird. #HaveYouSeenHenry
It’s good to see that yesterday a consultation was launched on the South Georgia and South Sandwich Island Strategy 2016-2020 to ‘stakeholders and interested parties’. I responded to an earlier consultation on the seas around South Georgia and I will be reading this strategy closely. There are no permanent or indigenous inhabitants of the land…
As Longfellow wrote in his poem Retribution: Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all. And maybe the same is true of the Rural Payments Agency who replied to me on my enquiry into how they are getting on with…
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time and now I have – and although it wasn’t a complete success, I’m glad I did. The carefully crafted plan involved combining an evening visit to Cheltenham racecourse with an afternoon visit to the Bill Smylie reserve above the racecourse and Cheltenham to see some…
‘So, this is a grouse butt’ says Henry. Wouldn’t it be a laugh if more people had a look at them and had their photographs taken in them? A kind of ‘Occupy the Butts’ movement? I’m sure there will be places to put such images later in the year. Vote for Hen Harrier as our…
It may be, though it seems unlikely, that the gene for being a Chief Executive also removes your interest in social media. Prompted by the arrival of the CEO of Wildlife and Countryside link on Twitter, @ElaineWCL, I thought I’d just run through the other CEOs of wildlife conservation organisations who are on Twitter (and…
I suppose that it is just possible that a UK run by Nigel Farage or Gideon Osborne might care more about its citizens and set even lower targets for nitrogen dioxide than those set by the straight-banana people in Brussels – it’s possible but very unlikely. A UK spokesman said ‘Killing our citizens has been…
Very glad to see that my local Leaf farmer, Duncan Farrington (as featured in Chapter 8 of A Message from Martha) has been short-listed in the Grocer Gold Awards 2015. Duncan is a modern farmer – entrepreneurial, green and hard-working. It will soon be time for me to see whether he still has perhaps the…
So, we went to Snilesworth – and it was a sunny early morning. Henry got a bit distracted here because he started chasing Meadow Pipits and saying that there were lots of voles around. It looked a good place to nest. But there weren’t any ringtails here for him. And he asked what the…