When I make the first cup of tea of the day at around 6am we have arrived at the time of year when I don’t have to turn a light on in the kitchen to accomplish this task. Indeed, if I step outside the back door while the kettle is boiling, or pause on the…
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Professional? Or professional foul?
This is an interesting report in a local newsletter. I feel that, whatever the rights and wrongs of this particular case, this is a significant issue. Carrying out weak environmental assessments for developers is a gravy train.
Even better, in my opinion
Yesterday I highlighted a petition from Friends of the Earth and mentioned that the issue was important but the petition is accompanied by lots of irritating stuff where FoE ask for your details so that they can contact you in future. I much prefer the petition systems set up by the national parliaments across the…
Press release – Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust asks people across the UK to Bee the Change The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is on a mission to help everyone Bee the Change in their local area, with a new campaign launched today (18 March 2021) asking people across the UK to take simple, quick micro-actions to make their postcode more bumblebee-friendly. …
The EU – remember them?
Well done LPO!
Are you a peaceful protestor?
I was sent this email by the RSPB and it pointed me towards a petition set up by Friends of the Earth which I happily signed. The petition is important and I gladly signed it, but the process of signing it is a bit irritating and gives the impression, which may not be completely untrue,…
Guest blog – Happy Paddy’s Day by Mark Robins
Mark Robins – a more or less full working life in and around nature NGOs and agencies various – mostly in South West England and especially for the RSPB. Moved to Ireland in 2018 and for a year led the BirdWatch Ireland Conservation & Policy team and is now a freelance natural environment and sustainable…
Press release – Earth Optimism event, 26 March – 4 April
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Conservation and sustainability experts to highlight the need for optimism in an online celebratory festival. Celebrity speakers, leading conservationists and youth leaders are coming together to deliver stories of hope for our natural world in a free, open-to-all virtual event running from the 26 March to 4 April 2021. Led by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative,…
Ruckus near St Ives
A bit of a ruckus has kicked off in Cornwall over work being carried out at the hotel where the G7 summit is to be held in Cornwall in June. Is the hotel breaking planning regulations, have ancient trees been felled and are Badger setts affected? The G7 meeting is expected to coincide with the…
Just a Buzzard, and another, and he missed the third…
This is a Buzzard, just a Buzzard. The Buzzard is in some ways the least exciting of our birds of prey being less dashing than any of our falcons or Sparrowhawk, and less exciting than eagles, harriers, kites etc. But it’s a nice bird, circling around on thermals and looking for carrion or a range…