Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc

Our main wildlife conservation organisations seem to have swallowed the idea of biodiversity offsetting and are all at pains to point out that it might work (RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and the Woodland Trust (which isn’t really a main wildlife conservation organisation (but let’s just pretend it is)). It is perhaps a mean thought to imagine…

Owen Paterson is paid for being the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. On Saturday morning I was listening to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme and one of the items was about Paterson’s remarks to The Times about biodiversity offsetting.  It seemed that Paterson had used woodland as an example…

This year has been difficult for our wildlife NGOs.  Money is tight and the government is hostile to nature. The Grasslands Trust disappeared from the Tangled Bank of wildlife NGOs and many others have had to cut their expenditure (and their staff). There have been encouraging signs of NGOs working more closely together – most…

If you look at the composition of the group of six organisations (Butterfly Conservation, Friends of the Earth, Plantlife, RSPB,  the Wildlife Trusts and WWF-UK) who published Biodiversity Challenge 20 years ago there are some interesting (I think) reflections for the future. How likely is it that these six organisations would work together on such…

Biodiversity Challenge, an NGO document published 20 years ago yesterday, was a challenge to government.  It set out a way of thinking about nature conservation: set objectives, plan the best way to meet them, and then do it! The idea of being clear, and ambitious, about what we wanted to achieve was a bit novel….