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Press release – Scottish Rewilding Alliance
MSPs urged to back Rewilding Nation motion Momentum grows as first-ever World Rewilding Day held The Scottish Rewilding Alliance, a coalition of over 20 organisations, is calling on MSPs from all parties to support a parliamentary motion recognising the potential social, economic and environmental benefits of Scotland becoming the world’s first rewilding nation. The Alliance is…
Press release – Leigh Day
Cancellation of Oxford-Cambridge Expressway plan welcomed Wildlife campaigners have voiced their relief and delight that plans for an expressway between Oxford and Cambridge have been axed. The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) had issued a legal challenge to a new corridor route with a highway and new homes between the cities. The Department…
Regrets, we have a few
You’ll remember that DEFRA said it was going to do great things on preventing burning of blanket bogs and then it did very little. Yesterday, Labour Peer, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, tabled a motion of Regret in the House of Lords to draw attention to the inadequacy of the government’s much delayed and much-caveated Statutory…
A few birds
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…
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,…