Conservationists concerned that newts are being used to mask real reasons for slow rate of house building The RSPB, the UK’s largest conservation charity is refuting the Prime Minister’s headline grabbing claims that newts are responsible for the Government’s inability to deliver new housing and construction projects. Despite working to the same regulations as France,…
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First they came for the newts, then they came for the salmon, eels, shads and lampreys?
Here’s a very big example of what Dominic Woodfield wrote about in his excellent guest blog this morning. There’s a nuclear power station, Hinckley C, being built on the Severn Estuary and part of the conditions for it being built were to do with protecting fish which use the estuary and which might be sucked…
RSPB’s new top boffin is Jeremy Wilson
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Prof Jerry Wilson FRSE will take up the post of Director of Science for the RSPB in August when David Gibbons retires from the role. I know Jerry and he is an excellent choice. He’s very bright, very wise and very nice. Here is the RSPB announcement – click here. And here is an interview…
Latest Wild Justice challenge
Wild Justice is taking on the Badger cull – or at least the licensing of free shooting of Badgers by Natural England. A crowdfunder launched at 2pm has raised £9,000 by 6pm, which is pretty amazing and probably indicates the level of anger about this cull of one of our most charismatic native species. To…
Press release – Wildlife App from Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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3D app brings UK bumblebees to life on your phone A wildlife app launched today by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust gives users a new view of bumblebees through an augmented reality 3D function. The free ‘What’s That Bumblebee’ app lets people engage with nature in a different and fun way by bringing a three-dimensional bumblebee…
Jimmi Hill of Raptor Aid interviews Chris Packham
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Press release from Leigh Day law firm
Court of Appeal agrees to hear HS2 environmental challenge The Court of Appeal has decided to hear Chris Packham’s appeal regarding an application for permission for judicial review of the Prime Minister’s decision to proceed with the HS2 railway project. The hearing has been listed for Wednesday, 8 July, 2020. Lord Justice Lewison held that…
A rather dull BBS survey
I was out of the house at 05:40 this morning to do the Late visit to my other BBS square. There were a few drops of rain, hardly any, but the sky was dark enough to make me wonder whether this afternoon’s forecast thunder storms might arrive early – they didn’t, and they still haven’t…
NEWS: Two rare hen harriers disappear in suspicious circumstances (RSPB press release)
RSPB Scotland is calling on the Scottish Government to move quickly to introduce the licensing of grouse shooting, following the disappearance of two more satellite-tagged hen harriers on moors in the Cairngorms National Park revealed on BBC Scotland’s Landward this evening. As detailed in the programme, Marlin, a young male, fledged from a nest at the National Trust for Scotland’s…
Press release – Invest in Nature from the RSPB in Scotland
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RSPB Scotland welcomes expert advisory group’s recommendation to invest in nature Today, the Scottish Government’s Economic Advisory Group published its initial advice to the Government on a green recovery after Covid-19. RSPB Scotland, Scotland’s largest nature conservation organisation, welcomes the general direction of the report and recommendations. Given the ongoing nature and climate emergency the…