Legal challenge to Highways England bypass decision to go ahead Lawyers have been granted permission by the High Court to challenge the decision by Highways England over a road project that would destroy ancient woodland and pass through the South Downs National Park near Arundel, West Sussex. Law firm Leigh Day are taking the legal…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
RSPB’s Nature of Scotland awards
These are the shortlists for this year’s categories. Lots of good contenders but I wish Ruth Tingay the best of luck in the political advocate category. Given the judging panel, I would rate her odds of winning at around 9/4. We will learn the identities of the winners on the 22nd of November at a…
National Trust reintroduces Water Voles on Exmoor
Water Vole. Photo: National Trust/Steve Haywood Endangered water voles are returning to a stretch of river where they have been extinct for more than 30 years – thanks to a National Trust river and waterways project. Once regularly spotted on Britain’s riverbanks, they are now the nation’s fastest declining land mammal, disappearing from 94 per…
Press release from Leigh Day – brood-meddling judicial review
A legal case to challenge the trial of brood management of endangered hen harriers will be heard in the High Court on 5 and 6 December 2018. Permission was given in July for a judicial review of Natural England’s decision to grant a licence to allow brood management of the birds. The case is being…
Sad news: Peter Melchett, 1948 – 2018
Peter Melchett, campaigner, farmer and wildlife-lover passed away yesterday. He will be sorely missed and fondly remembered. He lived in northwest Norfolk, near Ringstead, and every time I pass the entrance to his farm I think of him, and will always do so. A little further up the road, towards the coast, there is a…
Study reveals reasons for huge decline of Arctic Skuas
RSPB press release: Lack of food driving loss of Arctic skuas Arctic skuas could become extinct as a breeding species in the UK a new study by the RSPB’s Centre for Conservation Science, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, has revealed. The study found that the main driver of an 81% population decline is…
Hen Harrier survey, 2016, published
The headline results of this survey were released in June 2017 but now the full paper has emerged in Bird Study. Status of the Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus in the UK and Isle of Man in 2016. Simon R. Wotton, Stephen Bladwell, Wendy Mattingley, Neil G. Morris, David Raw, Marc Ruddock, Andrew Stephenson and Mark…
More cool Coul news
A group of environmental and wildlife conservation organisations (Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Plantlife, Marine Conservation Society, National Trust for Scotland, RSPB and Scottish Wildlife Trust)issued the following press release just before noon today; Scottish Ministers have “called-in” plans for a golf course at Coul Links near Embo, East Sutherland after deciding that the case is of…
RSPB press release – Young eagles soar in the skies over Hoy
Young eagles soar in the skies over Hoy White-tailed eagle chicks take flight in Orkney for the first time in more than 150 years The two white-tailed eagle chicks that hatched in Hoy in May, have successfully fledged, RSPB Scotland announced today. They are the first young white-tailed eagles to take to the Orkney…
RSPB publishes video of trapped Peregrine from Bowland grouse moor
This morning, in this blog, the RSPB have published this video … … which has prompted this excellent blog by RaptorPersecutionUK.