Tawny Owl. Photo: Howard Stockdale BTO Twenty minutes once during your week is all it will take to find out just how Britain’s Tawny Owls are faring. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is asking members of the public to listen out for Tawny Owls to help build a picture of what is happening to…
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Chris Packham CBE
Chris Packham outside the BBC standing under George Orwell’s very apt quote. Photo credit: somebody who was walking past at the time. Chris Packham has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Congratulations Chris! It is highly significant that this award is for services to nature conservation, not for broadcasting. Of course…
Wildlife NGOs call for protected status for Scottish Beavers.
Adult European Beaver at Knapdale. Photo: Steve Gardner A number of leading Scottish wildlife charities and individuals with an interest in conservation have signed an open letter to the First Minister, published in The Guardian today (Friday 21 December) calling for a firm date to be set on granting European Protected Species status to beavers…
Be kind to One Kind
I was saddened to see this – not a great way to head in to Christmas! To be kind to One Kind click here and please drop them a few quid. My £10 plus Gift Aid is already committed – please join me, thank you.
RSPB response to draft environment bill
Today Defra has published its draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill. The RSPB is not impressed. The RSPB’s Director of Conservation, Martin Harper said, ‘We welcome the steps taken by Government to give the proposed green watchdog more teeth; but it still falls short of the body we will need if we are to fill…
Waitrose – are you BTO members?
Waitrose is still selling game meat to the public weeks after being told that the health warning it is displaying is inaccurate. For a leading supermarket which claims high environmental credentials for itself, it is behaving badly. What Waitrose claims on its website … … and it’s a bit difficult to see how selling game…
Back to that excellent RSPB raptor report
The report on raptor persecution in Scotland published by the RSPB last week deserves a wide readership. I’ve been looking at it again over the weekend. There is a good, and new, piece of interpretation on satellite-tagged Hen Harriers (p12). Of the 18 Hen Harriers that died, or which disappeared under mysterious circumstances (ie their…
RSPB report on raptor killing 2015-17
This is the best report the RSPB has produced on illegal killing of birds of prey. Well done them! This report considers only Scotland and only over three years but this was a time of many important cases and many important scientific findings. The content will be familiar to many who read this blog and…
RSPB press release – Raptor killing in Scotland
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Grouse moor regulation vital to end illegal killing of Scotland’s raptors New report calls for action A new RSPB Scotland report published today has further reinforced the need for grouse moor regulation to be introduced in order to bring to an end to the widespread persecution of raptors in Scotland. The Illegal Killing of Birds…
RSPB press release – Cranes
Common Cranes. Photo: Nick Upton/RSPB images Survey reveals record number of UK’s tallest bird Figures released reveal 2018 has been the most successful year for Britain’s tallest bird – the common crane – since the 17th Century. A record 54 pairs produced 25 chicks, bringing the national total population to around 180 birds. Common cranes now…