Dr Coffey’s reading list (8)

Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it stands at over 9300) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do…

National Trust members vote to keep trail hunting

At Saturday’s NT AGM there was a very close vote which led to the members’ resolution to end trail hunting being rejected by 30,985 votes to 30,686 votes – my vote was in the losing category. That’s very close – but I am getting used to being on just the wrong side of close votes….

Vishal Jadhav – Amur Falcon

  This is a female Amur Falcon. This is an incredible small raptor which breeds in southern Russia and migrates to Africa, and a huge congregation of these raptors is found in Nagaland, India on their migration route. From here they travel on their way across the Indian peninsula to Africa the wintering grounds. One…

Dr Coffey’s reading list (7)

Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it stands at over 9300) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do…

Sunday book review – Islander by Patrick Barkham

This is a tour from one island to the next, starting with the Isle of Man and travelling to smaller and smaller islands around the British coast until ending on a very small and uninhabited island in the Essex saltmarshes.  Patrick Barkham writes so well that I’d really like to go on an actual journey…