The second installment of the new BBC1 wildlife series on Africa is this evening at 9pm. Was it just me who found the first episode amazing, enchanting, uplifting and intriguing? Fighting giraffes, cunning little drongos, rhinos at night, leopards up trees, ostriches and more and more and more. I watched some of the repeat on…
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Early Day Motion 603 – please help protect the National Wildlife Crime Unit
Red kites are ‘eating up lots of larks’ according to ‘real countryman’ Clive Aslet and our species has to intervene. But at least the Countryside Alliance admits, when faced with the evidence of an almost complete lack of breeding hen harriers in England, and Bowland Betty’s shooting in northern England, that the odd case of…
Parked at the ‘mid-term’ with no sign of any LibDem drive
The coalition mid-term review hardly mentions the environment in any meaningful way. There are a few poor jokes – the two mentions of ‘greenest government ever’, the promise to protect the marine environment with protected areas, the continuing obsession with a badger cull rather than control of bovine TB and closing an ash door after…
Early week and Early Day motion 603
Early Day Motions are a way of raising an issue in Parliament. MPs write a few words about an issue and then other concerned MPs can add their names to demonstrate support. If an EDM gets a lot of support, particularly cross-party support, then the issue tends to be taken a little more seriously than…
Problem with site corrected – I believe
If you have visited my website recently and encountered some information about V****a on it then I’m sorry about that but the site was temporarily hacked. I don’t think this lasted for more than a few hours, and I know that only a small number of users during the relevant period even noticed it (I…