National Trust outlines fresh ambition in landmark speech by Director General Charity will become carbon net zero by 2030 20 million trees to be planted and established over ten years to tackle climate change, creating new woodland ‘one and a half times the size of Manchester or equivalent to 42 new Sherwood Forests’ Ambitious plans…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Guest blog – Woodland Musing 2 by Louise Bacon
Tree planting has been higher in my thoughts than usual recently, with all the GB political parties providing numbers of trees they intend to plant. As a volunteer in practical conservation land management for wildlife trusts etc., I have noticed that, without interference, trees are pretty good at growing themselves. Whether I have been cutting…
Steve Backshall MBE
Congratulations to Steve Backshall for his MBE in the New Year Honours for services to charity and wldlife conservation. I know that he has done a great job as a supporter, and since 2016 a patron, of the World Land Trust. If the Honours system has any value, and I am not really convinced, then…
Press release – Together Against Sizewell C (TASC)
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TOGETHER AGAINST SIZEWELL C (TASC) COMMITTEE MEMBER SEEKS A JUDICIAL REVIEW OF EAST SUFFOLK COUNCIL’S PLANNING APPROVAL FOR EDF TO FELL CORONATION WOOD FOR SIZEWELL C PURPOSES On 23rd December TASC member Joan Girling issued proceedings against East Suffolk Council’s decision granting planning permission to EDF for the development of a nuclear power site in…
Guest blog – Woodland Musing 1 by Louise Bacon
As a volunteer, I spend about a day a week from late October through to Easter cutting down trees. ‘Shock horror!’ say the urban tree-huggers. Actually, I could equally have written that I spend a day a week engaged in the traditional rural craft of coppicing. I prefer to think of it as the latter….
RSPB press release – Werritty report
Independent Grouse Moor Review does not go far or fast enough to tackle raptor crimes ‘Werritty’ Review Group publishes findings RSPB Scotland has given a cautious welcome to the publication today of the long-anticipated report by the Scottish Government’s Independent Grouse Moor Review Group, chaired by Professor Alan Werritty. We support the recommendations relating to…
Let’s not let this be these woodland’s last Christmas
ReThinkHS2 – Last Christmas Annie Lennox, Chris Packham and Emma Thompson join forces with leading environmental organisations to Stand For The Trees threatened by HS2. More than 100 of the UK’s irreplaceable ancient woodlands, and the wildlife they support, such as endangered bats, butterflies and barn owls are facing what could be their last Christmas,…
BTO press release – SEO to Morocco
A Short-eared Owl, fitted with a satellite tag while breeding in Scotland, has been tracked to Morocco, revealing significant new information for British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) researchers. The Short-eared Owl is something of a nomad, appearing in an area to breed in large numbers one year and then absent the next. Such changes in…
Parakeets and dead Starlings
You can tell it’s election day because the media are grasping for non-political stories today. These two stories are widely covered in the print and broadcast media: Parakeets – not Jimi Hendrix’s fault – Guardian, Telegraph, Times, Mail Dead Starling mystery on Anglesey – BBC, Guardian, Times, Metro and NorthWalesLive. I had a chat with…
Coul Links – decision expected ‘soon’
Decision due on fate of protected nature site at Coul Links Final report now with Ministers The fate of Coul Links, the globally important wildlife site on the Sutherland coast under threat from golf course proposals, is now in Ministers’ hands. The coalition of conservation organisations (including Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Marine Conservation Society, Plantlife, RSPB…