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Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
RSPB press release – Rare insect found in Cairngorms
Rare insect found in Cairngorms Scientists are celebrating the rediscovery of a rare bug not seen in Scotland for over 30 years. The cow wheat shieldbug was recently spotted in a woodland in Strathspey by a field worker from the Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms partnership project. The bug is an attractive little insect, with a black body featuring two distinctive white spots. This is only the 8th-ever…
RSPB press release – Pony poo for conservation at RSPB headquarters
Pony poo for conservation at RSPB headquarters Six Dartmoor ponies are joining the team at RSBP headquarters, The Lodge nature reserve Through their grazing, trampling, and poo, they will be helping to restore the space for invertebrates and birds Dartmoor ponies are a particularly hardy native endangered breed RSPB headquarters have welcomed six new team…
British Wildlife April 2021
This is a particularly good issue of the almost always particularly good British Wildlife. From Peter Marren, arguing for Swanscombe Peninsula to be protected, to Twitcher in the Swamp demonstrating that he (is Twitcher a he? I believe so) has supernatural powers to write about nature conservation in a sardonic but meaningful way, it is…
Guest blog – HS2 Limited and Natural England – Partners in Crime? by Dominic Woodfield
Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well-respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is a life-long birder, a specialist in botany, habitat restoration and creation and in protected fauna including bats, herpetofauna and other species. He is also a highly experienced practitioner in Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations…
It wasn’t really like that…
Having done a good job in falling out with people who live in towns, people with degrees and people who work in conservation organisations Robin Page has a smaller and smaller pool of people with whom to fall out but he contines undaunted. He’s now falling out with the trustees of the Countryside Restoration Trust,…
World Land Trust’s latest appeal – Tanzania coastal forests
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… and the video that explains what it is all about;
Martin Harper to move from RSPB to BirdLife International
Martin Harper, the RSPB’s Conservation Director, will be moving to BirdLife International in May to become the Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia. I recruited Martin to the RSPB 17 years ago, from Plantlife, and he has done a fine job through the whole of that period, the last 10 years of which have…
Press release – Langholm Initiative
South of Scotland’s biggest community buyout completes The South of Scotland’s largest community buyout has been legally completed following one of the most ambitious community fundraising campaigns ever seen and paving the way for the creation of a vast new nature reserve in Dumfries and Galloway. The landmark agreement of £3.8 million for 5,200 acres…
National Trust re-introduces beavers to South East England site after Somerset success
Two beavers have been introduced into a hidden valley cared for by the National Trust, on the flanks of the South Downs First introduction by the National Trust in south east England Local supporters have helped fund the scheme, on land that was bought by local people to be donated to the Trust Aim is…