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…
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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…
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Biodiversity Challenge 2
Biodiversity Challenge, an NGO document published 20 years ago yesterday, was a challenge to government. It set out a way of thinking about nature conservation: set objectives, plan the best way to meet them, and then do it! The idea of being clear, and ambitious, about what we wanted to achieve was a bit novel….
How intriguing
A man by the name of Avery (what an excellent name that is) got in touch with me recently because a copy of Fighting for Birds had arrived unexpectedly through the post. If there is someone buying and sending out copies of Fighting for Birds to everyone called Avery this Christmas then that seems like…
20 years back
20 years ago, a bunch of wildlife conservation organisations published a report on the state of wildlife in the UK and what should be done to protect it. That report was Biodiversity Challenge and it made quite an impact – at least for a while. Back in 1993 the UK government (and this was before…
That was a heck of an e-action
Well done to the RSPB, and the Wildlife Trusts, for launching an impressive e-action over the weekend to persuade the Prime Minister to back his Secretary of State and go ahead with a 15% transfer of funds from one part of the CAP (the rather useless part) to another part of the CAP (the rather…
Charles Clover’s £398
I like Charles Clover but I don’t (by any means) always agree with him. His column in today’s Sunday Times is entitled ‘Greedy farmers a-milking it, no turtle doves and no partridges either‘ and describes Peter Kendall as ‘the cocky ambassador of agri-business‘. Wow! Even I am more polite about PK than that! Charles Clover,…
More on that 15%
Although the NFU says that it has written to every MP on the subject of CAP reform they don’t put that letter (or those letters) on their website as far as I can see. What they do say on their website is that they are ‘increasingly infuriated‘ with the government position. Only the farming industry…
Where will your £400 go?
As I was driving home from Cheltenham races yesterday I was switching through the radio channels and heard the Deputy President of the NFU and my former colleague Gareth Morgan on PM (click here – after 20 mins). Meurig Raymond clearly hasn’t been paying much attention to the silver-tongued Peter Kendall as his answers weren’t…