Standing up for Nature
The Reintroduction & Rewilding Summit Launch A Focus on Wildlife Restoration and a Vision for the Future – created and hosted by Birds of Poole Harbour & The Self-Isolating Bird Club – Saturday 10th April 2021. On April 10th 2021, Dorset-based charity Birds of Poole Harbour in partnership with Chris Packham’s and Megan McCubbin’s Self Isolating…
Beccy Speight, RSPB Chief Executive, said: This Treasury-commissioned review is an incredibly important moment that should trigger a sea-change in attitude towards the positive role nature plays underpinning our prosperity. The review demonstrates how our economies, livelihoods and well-being fundamentally depend on protecting and enhancing nature. But right now, we aren’t protecting our precious natural…
UK crane population hits record high The latest common crane survey reveals a record-breaking 64 pairs of cranes in 2020, bringing the total population to over 200 birds. Cranes became extinct in the UK around four hundred years ago but following the natural recolonisation of a few birds and extensive conservation work, including a reintroduction…
Have a look at this petition please, and see if you can sign it. And then ask a friend to sign it too. See some of the details on the Wild Justice blog – click here.
Craig Bennet of the Wildlife Trusts said; We are preparing to take legal action unless the Government can prove it acted lawfully. The Government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what’s changed. Where’s the new evidence that it’s ok to use this extremely harmful pesticide? Using neonicotinoids not…
I highlighted the disappearance of the Woodland Trust from much online activity quite some time ago – no online shop, no online membership subscription, no online donation. Clearly something serious was happening. Now, the Woodland Trust has gone public with what seemed to be a likely, but highly unusual situation – they’ve been hacked. I…
This year, as in 2020, the dawn chorus continues to help us all staycalm and connected to nature, whether we live or work in an urban or rural location. Indeed, hearing birdsong is known to calm our minds because it signals the absence of nearby threats: if the birds are singing, then, ‘all must be…
The results are in for BSBI’s tenth New Year Plant Hunt, when plant-lovers cross Britain and Ireland head out to see what is flowering in their local patch. 1,811 people took part this year – more than ever before – but restrictions around Covid-19 had surprising impacts on the wild flowers they spotted in bloom….
My yesterday was divided between an excellent meeting with World Land Trust trustees and quite a lot of activity with my legal team ahead of next week’s Court of Appeal brood-meddling hearing. On the former, despite the impacts of covid, 2020 was a successful year as far as fund-raising was concerned, but also more importantly,…
Is Scotland ready for the return of lynx? An extensive and impartial study to assess people’s views about the possible reintroduction of Eurasian lynx to the Scottish Highlands is being launched this month by a new partnership of the charities SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, Trees for Life and Vincent Wildlife Trust. Ecological research has shown…