A rather dull, not very technical, technical update.

This post explains some things that are going on behind the scenes of this blog and asks for your views. This blog has published almost 5,500 posts since it sprang into life in April 2011.  I’ve written most of them although there have been plenty of guest blogs (see here for guidance if you would…

Other blogs (11)

In this occasional series of links to other interesting blog posts, here are some more blogs that have caught my eye.  The first two are comments on the terrible state of Natural England, the third, fourth and fifth can be taken to be wide-ranging criticism of SNH and the last is about some people going…

More cool Coul news

A group of environmental and wildlife conservation organisations (Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Plantlife, Marine Conservation Society, National Trust for Scotland, RSPB and Scottish Wildlife Trust)issued the following press release just before noon today; Scottish Ministers have “called-in” plans for a golf course at Coul Links near Embo, East Sutherland after deciding that the case is of…

The secretive Hen Harrier study – the story drags on

For ages, and ages, and ages our big brother of a blog, RaptorPersecutionUK and this blog have been asking NE when they are going to publish the results of their long-lasting Hen Harrier study.  One of my first blogs on the subject was back in May 2012 when I was barely out of short trousers….