Restoring nature-rich habitats helps offset UK carbon emissions The RSPB has identified how much carbon is being stored in areas important for wildlife Much of these areas is in poor condition and unprotected, however restoration could lead not only to reduced emissions but actually to higher levels of sequestration Restoring these areas to good condition…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
BBS ‘late’ visit
I was back at one of my BBS squares this morning. It was a cold morning and the birds seemed to be sulking a bit. However, there are always birds to be seen, noted and their existence entered online so that’s what I have done. There weren’t many people about either. ‘Best’ birds? Bullfinch isn’t…
Tweets
This is an occasional update on the main Twitter accounts of some of our favourite wildlife organisations (and BASC and GWCT). The table below shows the number of followers in thousands (NT 886,000 followers). A caveat: you can’t judge a man, or an organisation, by the size of their Twitter following, but in a world…
BBS report for 2019
The 2019 Breeding Bird Survey report has been online for some time (which is very good – things are speeding up) and my paper copy arrived a while ago but I have now read most of what I am ever going to read in it. It’s a very good report – the 25th report covering…
Press release – The Beaver Trust
Legal killing of 1-in-5 Scottish beavers spotlights need for fresh approach across Britain The killing of 87 beavers in Scotland – one fifth of the country’s population – proves there is an urgent need for humans to live more sympathetically alongside beavers across Britain, the Beaver Trust said today. The Trust said lethal control of…
RSPB consultation on gamebird shooting
The Wild Justice response to the RSPB consultation can be found here.
Conflict over the uplands in social media?
If you all turn to p273 of your copies of Inglorious then you will find an exhortation from me to use social media in our campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Written in January 2015 it lists the Twitter followers of the following organisations and individuals. Here are what they were then, in June 2016…
RSPB seeks top boffin
The RSPB is looking for a new Director of Science to replace Dr David Gibbons who has held the role since 1998. David is stepping down at the end of August after a distinguished scientific career as a PhD student at Cambridge (Moorhen helping behaviour), the BTO (see Gibbons et al. 1993, the Atlas before…
Stay local this weekend urge wildlife NGOs in England – press release
Stay local and check for info before travelling this weekend, urge major nature groups With fair weather expected this weekend and restrictions in England relaxed, people will be keen to get outside and into nature. Major nature charities are urging the public to consider four things before travelling to beauty spots or nature sites. The…
My second BBS visit
This morning I did the first visit of 2020 to my second Breeding Bird Survey square. Although starting in a sizeable village, as usual, there weren’t many people about, and as usual the caged canaries in a shed in a garden made me pause briefly to think ‘What’s that?’. I did meet a man with…