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Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist and nature writer, based in North Yorkshire. My summers follow a familiar structure. The rampant joy of May, the hot and heady days of June, the awful realization in July that cuckoos and swifts are already looking south and that it can’t last. But in August, a holiday allows…

I’ve been sent this passage from two SNH staff (the versions differ by a few letters and commas – I’ll put that down to transcription errors) – that they say was put out on the internal SNH intranet by their Director of Operations, Nick Halfhide, following the withdrawal by the Scottish Raptor Study Group of…

I’m sure we will see members and staff from all of these organisations in Hyde Park  on 22 September – Walking for Wildife. But it will be interesting to see whether, as organisations, they promote the walk to their memberships.  I do hope they do. It would be odd if they don’t. No doubt the…

The Bowland Fells SPA sits between Lancaster and Clitheroe, and High Bentham and Longridge, east of the M6 in Lancashire. It was classified in 1993 and one of the qualifying criteria was the number of nesting pairs of Hen Harriers (13) at that time. For a long time Bowland was the English stronghold of this…

To achieve greater gender balance in main speakers at the Bird Fair there either has to be more time (this would be difficult to do, but should be kept in mind) or there has to be less time given to male speakers. If you fill in this questionnaire then we’ll have more information than now on…