Welcome to December! Last month this blog passed the 8,000 blog posts (since April 2011) milestone. And this blog received over 130,000 pageviews in November – a record November, the third most-read month of 2020 so far, the fifth most-read month ever, the ninth month this year with over 100,000 pageviews and the seventh month…
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Farming is changing – but we can’t really tell you how.
Nobody really has a clue what’s happening to farming over the next few years, and that obviously includes DEFRA. This document, according to ministers, represents the most fundamental shift in farming policy for over 50 years (but the details are so unclear it would be difficult to write them on the side of a barn,…
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I mention this petition in my Birdwatch column this month. If you want to act like a global citizen then have a look and see whether you feel like signing too, please – click here – many thanks!
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The power of birds of prey is illustrated well in this little article about what you might see in Yorkshire – 6 of the 14 species are raptors. Of course, the article does not say that North Yorkshire is known as the UK capital of illegal raptor persecution! The Red Kite above (ahem) is joined…