Dear Syngenta Why didn’t you release the data on neonics to Prof Jeremy Greenwood when he asked you for them? Yours sincerely Dr Mark Avery See earlier blog.
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Return of Mr White…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the grouse moors…the return of Mr White and Reservoir Cats. Mr White retired from writing about 4 years ago, only to be tempted out of retirement to write the first Guest Blog on this site, but then, to all of our regret, he simply…
Last day to vote
…for the Fair to Nature farmer. I voted for Graham Birch but all these farmers look very good to me.
Read the BOU blog by Arjun Amar
Read the BOU blog by Arjun Amar. Good linmks to quite a few of the important scientific papers and a good rattle through the issues and proposed solutions.
Guest Blog – silence of the guns by Rob Yorke
Rob Yorke (@blackgull) is a hunter naturalist and rural commentator based in the Black Mountains of South Wales. He carries, at times, both a gun and binoculars and outlines below a possible scenario set in northern England after a ban on driven grouse shooting has been in force for a number of years. The characters…
Got the T-shirt
To all green blobs out there
It’s two and a half weeks since Owen Paterson went out with a rant about the Green Blob. It was a fairly remarkable outburst at the time and re-reading it hardly lessens the impact. Paterson’s hatred, for so it seems, for those who devote their lives to the environment is quite shocking. It’s also shocking…
Hen Harrier Day
I apologise for the late posting of this little note but I have been collecting my Hen Harrier Day T-shirt. This time next week it will all be over. We’ll be becalmed in the day between ‘Hen Harrier Day’ and the ‘Inglorious 12th’. I have bought and tested a megaphone – it works! There aren’t…
No difference?
This Guest Blog is rather different. It’s about statistical analysis and written by a respected scientist, Professor Jeremy Greenwood. In his Guest Blog Professor Greenwood criticises the statistical basis of the UK government’s opposition to a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides during the tenure of Owen Paterson as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural…
The Hen Harrier thunderclap
It may be as recently as a year ago I’d never heard of a social media thunderclap. What it is, is this. If you have an account on social media (eg Twitter) you can send out messages which might be seen by all the people that ‘follow’ you. A social media thunderclap is where lots …