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Wild Justice advert in the Guardian
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Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 2) by Conor Mark Jameson
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Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 42 Calderdale Energy Park by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
RSPB press release – Oldest Oystercatchers
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UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers discovered on England’s East Coast Wetlands Two record-breaking Oystercatchers have been found on England’s East Coast Wetlands, setting new records as the oldest of their kind in the UK. A new national record of 41 years and 8 months was beaten within weeks by a second bird confirmed as 43…
RSPB press release – White-faced Darter reintroduction
Rare dragonfly introduced into a hidden corner of Cumbria The introduction of the rare White-faced Darter dragonfly begins this week, at RSPB Campfield Marsh in Cumbria. The species has declined significantly in England due to habitat loss and other factors and is now found in only a few locations. The introduction involves translocating larvae from…
Press release – Trees for Life
NatureScot accused of ‘great beaver betrayal’ ‘Mystifying’ decision by Scotland’s nature agency comes despite huge public support for return of native species and ‘exemplary’ local consultations Scottish government agency NatureScot has unexpectedly delayed its decision to grant a licence application for the historic official release of beavers in Glen Affric citing ‘concern among the local…
Guest blog – HS2’s Badly Behaved Little Brother by Euan Dunn
Dr Euan Dunn MBE is an ecologist who lives in Great Eversden near Cambridge. For 25 years he led on developing marine conservation policy for the RSPB and was awarded the Society’s medal in 2024. Not long after retirement he turned his attention from sea to land to assist Cambridge Approaches – click here –…
Press release – SCOTTISH REWILDING ALLIANCE
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Seven decades for Scotland to reach 30% nature recovery target at current rates, new figures show It could take seven decades before large-scale nature restoration is underway across 30% of Scotland’s land, new figures from the Scottish Rewilding Alliance show. The coalition of more than 20 organisations calculates that rewilding across Scotland is now underway across…
Guest blog – The Cost of Planting by Ian Parsons
Ian Parsons spent 20 years as a ranger. He now writes books and articles on wildlife. He has contributed many articles to this blog – click here and find his guest blogs (in an alphabetical list). When it comes to establishing new woodland, it is fair to say that I would far prefer this…
English Hen Harrier population increase modelled – brood meddled nests not a factor
A recent BTO report – click here – comes to the unsurprising conclusion that brood meddling of Hen Harrier nests made little or no contribution to the recent rise and fall of the Hen Harrier breeding population. As was predicted in advance, brood meddling is a distraction and an irrelevance. The drivers of the steep…