Thank you to those people who helped me raise £150 for the World Land Trust by going meat-free for a week. It wasn’t difficult. However, last Sunday was the last day of Meat Free Week, and also my birthday, and I was slightly wishing that I could have meat that day (probably just because I…
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The general election
Have you noticed? There’s a general election coming? Have you noticed? I’ve added some general election pages to this website? Over the next month these pages will be populated with more and more comment and analysis on what the political parties say about wildlife, nature conservation etc If you have suggestions for reasons why we…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Some things
bit of a hullabaloo over the RSPB being reasonably reasonable here …and an amazing attack on the RSPB’s credibility by the Countryside Alliance who say they agree with everything the RSPB says and always have and always will and love them to bits and just want to give Martin Harper a really big hug and…..
Henry phones in…
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Henry was ‘phoning the RSPB Hen Harrier hotline 0845-4600121 – he thinks it’s a dating service. HaveYouSeenHenry?
2020 biodiversity target
Lord de Mauley seems to think that we are a shoo-in to meet the 2020 biodiversity target of halting biodiversity loss. This is what four of our leading wildlife NGOs think: Martin Warren, Chief Executive of Butterfly Conservation says: ‘I think it is extremely unlikely that the UK will meet all the targets set out…
Henry chats up the people
Henry is quite a chatterbox. He is a people magnet – pity there aren’t more ringtails around for him … This family, and many others, were keen to hear of the plight of Hen Harriers in the Upper Derwent Valley. Just think of the stir when Henry wings in to centres of population. He might…
Left undone…
Defra still hasn’t answered this very simple question – ‘Do ministers sign off on responses to e-petitions. And who signed off the response to John Armitage’s successful e-petition about licensing shooting estates?’ Teresa Dent hasn’t yet replied on behalf of Rules restaurant on the expected levels of poisonous lead in the meat that they sell….
Natural England seem to have lost the West Pennine Moors
I view the north of England pretty much as an enigma wrapped in a cloth cap and walking a whippet. I’m better on the east of the country than the west where everywhere seems to be a town beginning with B, and it is indeed the area between Bolton and Blackburn with which we are…
So that was March
So that was March – spring has not yet fully sprung. I sat by the side of the road in County Durham, and there were displaying waders everywhere – drumming Snipe, tumbling Lapwing, a distant Golden Plover, yelping Redshank and even the occasional bubbling Curlew but the three Blackcock at the lek were just mooching…