The decision of the coalition government to reject the Secretary of State for the Environment’s recommendation of a full 15% rate of modulation for the CAP (and go for 12% instead) caps off an awful year for wildlife in England; – glacially slow and inadequate progress on MCZs – UK opposition to a neonic ban…
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The week in birding – Jonnie Fisk
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Christmas cartoon from Ralph Underhill
Invite your MP to do the BGBW
You may have seen my blog this morning which invited my local MP, Andy Sawford, to do the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch with me at my home on Sunday 26 January (I plan to be at Cheltenham races on the Saturday!). I hope he says yes as I’d like to show him some birds, tell…
Writing to my MP (2) – Big Garden Birdwatch
Dear Andy This is the second of my monthly letters to you and serves also as a means for me to wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas! In just over a month’s time, on the weekend of 25 and 26 January is the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. On that weekend, over…
Three images today – 3 Shooting with a camera
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Three images today – 2 eeek!
Anybody claim to own this tattoo? There are many people called Mark Avery in the world – there is this photographer, and this photographer – both of whom seem very talented to me. And there is this musician who was a guitarist in a punk band. There is this Mark S. Avery who is big…
Three images today – 1 Greenpeace video
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Biodiversity Challenge 3 – the future
If you look at the composition of the group of six organisations (Butterfly Conservation, Friends of the Earth, Plantlife, RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts and WWF-UK) who published Biodiversity Challenge 20 years ago there are some interesting (I think) reflections for the future. How likely is it that these six organisations would work together on such…
Summoned by gulls
Gulls used to be quite dull and quite simple. When I grew up, there were basically a couple of black-backs, Herring, Common and Black-headed (and Kittiwake on distant coasts and Little Gull if you were very lucky). All of these gulls were pretty common so there wasn’t much to be gained by being a gull-expert…