There is much discussion about the potential for restoring species lost as a result of human persecution. Some have already made their return and our landscapes are all the better for it. After only a few decades since their reintroduction, a trip to the Chilterns without seeing Red Kites or to north-west Scotland without seeing…
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Bowland Gull Cull 19 – comments on NE’s response
This is the fifth blog post on this subject today; the other four have dealt with NE’s very tardy response to my FoI/EIR requests. 1. I started this enquiry by asking NE whether they had consented the culling of Lesser Black-backed Gulls in the Bowland Fells for 2017. NE’s reply was that there was no…
Bowland Gull Cull 18 – the Habitats Regulations Assessment
Having read NE’s response to my FoI/EIR request, and the proposed MoU between NE, Abbeystead, Bleasdale and United Utilities and the SSSI/SPA Management Plan, we now move on to the 27 pages of the Habitats Regulations Assessment. This document is where NE assesses whether a plan or project will affect a site designated under the…
Bowland Gull Cull 17 – the SSSI/SPA Management Plan
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I’m now moving on to the next document that NE sent me – the Bowland Fells SSSI/SPA Management Plan. This is quite a big document – 22 pages. This is how it starts: So, we learn here that there are LBBG Sensitive Areas – and I think we can call the rest of the area…
Bowland Gull Cull 16 – the MoU
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Reading NE’s reponse to me (a response after over a year) it looked like there might not have been any consent to kill Lesser Black-backed Gull in the Bowland Fells SPA that was partly notified to protect them. But the next place to look seemed to be the MoU that NE sent me and which…