His Honour Justice Jarman handed down a very significant judgment today on Welsh general licences – see Wild Justice blog for details.
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
Two weeks today (or yesterday or the day before) you might be doing the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. I will; probably listening to Desert Island Discs while I do. It’s a tradition now that attracts around half a million participants each year. You can read what I think of it in the next Birdwatch magazine…
What’s up with Woodland Trust?
This is their pinned Tweet on Twitter and has been for a month; Their online shop is closed; Their Facebook page is similar; Seems quite serious and worrying. I wish the Woodland Trust well but it’s probably time for Woodland Trust to come clean to their supporters and others about what is happening.
Interesting and important paper
This paper (accepted for publication and avialable online – but may have some last minute changes added to it in terms of copyediting) looks at trends in wetland bird species across RSPB nature reserves and compares them with ‘counterfactuals‘. You’ll have to read the paper to find out what counterfactuals are in general, and which…
87 Beavers memorial calendar
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Thank you to the friend who sent me this calendar – it’s very attractive and proceeds go to support the Scottish Beaver Group.
May I badger you for your signature please?
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Ok, let’s get this petition over the 100,000 signature barrier please.
Is it legal to kill a Jay in England ahead of the nesting season?
Jay – what a lovely bird! The Wild Justice blog asks the question ‘Is it lawful to kill a Jay under the current 2021 DEFRA general ‘conservation’ licence today? Or tomorrow? Or only much closer to the nesting season? Read all about it here.
Press release – Trees for Life
Trees for Life crowdfunder to protect Scotland’s beavers raises £60,000 A crowdfunding appeal by Trees for Life to help protect Scotland’s endangered wild beavers has raised almost £60,000 – setting the scene for a court challenge to the Scottish Government’s beaver policy, which the charity says is causing needless loss of beavers’ lives. Trees for…
Quiet day…
There really doesn’t seem to be much happening in the world of nature conservation today but I was very pleased to see the excellent Trees for Life reach and pass their fundraising target for this legal challenge against Nature Scotland.
Thoughts on 2020 (5) – nature conservation
I don’t think that nature conservation, as a movement, comes out of 2020 very well. The economic challenges should have brought home to many nature conservation organisations that they have morphed too much into being part of the entertainment industry in recent years and have loosened their nature conservation and environmental roots. When it came…