As a trustee of the World Land Trust I’d like to point you in the direction of this Christmas art auction. This online auction ends on 11 December (that’s Monday) so you could spend the weekend mooching and choosing and bidding! Or, quite honestly, if you can’t be bothered with that then why not just…
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Guest blog – Ramble Against Raptor Persecution by Dara McAnulty
My name is Dara McAnulty, I’m a 13 year old aspiring naturalist, scientist and conservationist living in Northern Ireland. I write a nature blog called Young Fermanagh Naturalist and I try to do what I can to raise awareness about local as well as national issues which face our wildlife and environment. Ramble…
News and no news from The Moorland Association
A week ago RaptorPersecutionUK published a post which revealed that Amanda Anderson of the Moorland Association had said that some of her members were planning to apply for licences to control Marsh Harriers on moorland. RPUK is rarely wrong but we all waited for the rapid, detailed and hurt denial that would have been an…
Forest Enterprise and non-toxic ammunition
Natural England could learn a few lessons from the Forest Enterprise. I asked Forest Enterprise England for some information on correspondence between themselves and Defra on 21 November and received a reply on 29 November with no fuss at all. Thank you FC! You’ll notice that the email below has the subject line ‘Mark Avery’s…
Home-Start – have you done due diligence on game meat?
The Grampian Moorland Group is supplying game to local branches of the charity Home-Start. Home-Start is a ‘Family support charity, supporting families with a child under five, that helps parents build better lives for their children.‘. This may be happening elsewhere in the country too, for all I know. And for all I know great…