I’m looking forward to talking to the Cambridgeshire Bird Club this evening. Don’t go to St John’s College – lovely place, but not where I am speaking (click here for location). And if you’d like a signed copy of Fighting for Birds then I’ll be happy to sell you one for 1p less than 13…
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Maybe not the biggest surprise ever…
Yesterday’s Today programme (at around 0639 and 0812) disclosed that high lead levels can make us more aggressive. We know that ‘Lead damages the brain’ and ‘this is why there is a drive to keep lead levels very low and to keep lead levels in children particularly low’. Hmmm. Makes you wonder doesn’t it? Another…
I’m looking forward to this…
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…
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…