State of the UK’s birds

New report reveals declines in UK’s woodland birds New data show long-term declines of woodland bird species Some specialist woodland species have declined dramatically, including willow tit, which has shown the second biggest decline of any widespread UK bird. Numbers of native birds overall are down, with 19 million fewer pairs of breeding birds in…

From World Land Trust

As the chair of trustees, I’m proud of the work that World Land Trust staff and our partners across the world have done in very difficult circumstances this year, and also grateful to our donors for loyal and generous support.

Brighton’s Big Secret

I found this video fascinating. It’s 20min but it is fascinating and reveals so many natural riches on Brighton’s doorstep. It’s an interesting commentary too. I will return to this.

This week I am mostly…

This week I am mostly: doing things for the World Land Trust doing things for Wild Justice wondering whether our modest plans for seeing family over Christmas will be possible, and sensible. wondering when the Brexit deal will be done – or should that be undone?

Bird/poultry flu another update

There’s another case of bird/poultry flu in captive birds and poultry announced today: And that site is somewhere under the blue splodge on the Derbyshire, Staffs and Leics border on the map below.