Conservationists delight as endangered butterfly makes early appearance The UK’s most endangered butterfly is making a bumper early appearance at a remote British habitat – confounding recent grim figures about its population. The High Brown Fritillary has been recorded as being ‘out’ slightly earlier than usual and early counts reveal excellent numbers of butterflies present,…
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Guest blog – The Hunting Act by Tim Bidie
I am a 63 year old retired British and Sultan of Oman’s Army Officer living overseas, in Oman, running a small business advisory consultancy in Muscat, helping small to medium sized British and European Companies achieve business there. I am a salt water (mainly) catch and release fly fisherman who occasionally shoots for the pot…
BBS and birds generally
I did my two Breeding Bird Survey Square surveys a little while back. Both were carried out on gloriously sunny mornings and both were very enjoyable. There is a smug feeling of being virtuous that one gets from being up early for a purpose, and especially if that purpose is volunteering for the public good,…
IUCN UK National Committee meeting next week
I wonder what Julian Huxley would think of this… It probably is better if I do not comment on this. If you are attending, please do feed back.
RSPB assists in search for missing eagle in Scotland
Press release from the RSPB: Another satellite tagged eagle has disappeared in highly suspicious circumstances. RSPB Scotland has today (17th April 2018) been assisting Police Scotland in the search for the white tailed eagle in the Glen Quaich area of Perthshire. Duncan Orr-Ewing, Head of Species and Land Management at RSPB Scotland said: “This…
Plantlife’s Code of Conduct for picking wild flowers
Plantlife, the charity which looks out for wild flowers, says it’s OK to pick a few common, widespread and pretty flowers. Here are eight things to remember when picking any of the 12 wild flowers on the Plantlife list. Make sure you’re not trespassing on any private land. Never pick flowers from nature reserves or…
Plantlife’s 12 pickable flowers
Plantlife, the charity which speaks up for the nation’s plants, says that it’s OK to pick these 12 common flowers (provided you don’t go beserk in the woods and fields of the UK). Can you match the names to the pictures? If not, you’d better do some research before you pick anything!
Go out and pick some flowers says Plantlife
Plantlife, the wild plant conservation charity, is telling us it’s OK to pick flowers – some flowers anyway! Good for them! I trust they will be on the Today programme this morning on Radio 4 – it would be criminal if they are not. Here is their press release and I’ll be featuring the flowers…
Press release: RSPB and Kent Wildlife Trust
Press release from RSPB and Kent Wildlife Trust: A Local council ignores national outcry by ploughing ahead with plans that threaten one of the last bastions for nightingales in England Last year over 12,000 people wrote to Medway Council to object to proposals that could see thousands of houses built at Lodge Hill, the most…
Gender pay gap data
The gender pay gap is a very blunt measure of anything – because it does not measure whether both (or more) genders get paid the same amount for the same job. But the data are out there. This is what I’ve discovered so far (data rounded to nearest whole number): If you’d like me…