In this occasional series of links to other interesting blog posts, here are some that have caught my eye recently. INSTAR – No trees… no culture Natural storytelling – SNP announces intention to license driven grouse shooting – early thoughts RaptorpersecutionUK – Ramifications as police investigate leaked hunting webinars RSPB, Martin Harper – A comment on the…
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Jane V. Adams – At least Nature has benefited…
Jane is a naturalist, photographer and nature writer living in Dorset. Her work has appeared in books, anthologies and blogs for charities such as The Wildlife Trusts and the International Bee Research Association. When she’s not exploring Dorset’s lanes and countryside she can be found lying on her stomach watching insects in her garden. Jane…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Bird/poultry flu update
Cases of bird/poultry flu in wildish birds are filling in the gaps on the map and creeping further north – to very near the Scottish Border in both Cumbria and Nortumberland. An excellent report in the Guardian makes slightly scary reading with Mute Swans spinning in cicles and bleeding from their nostrils. The quote from…
Ban on lead ammunition in EU wetlands may apply to UK too…
Raptor-killing, poison-shooting, bog-burning, hare-killing driven grouse shooting is not having a great week. The day before yesterday, the EU (remember the EU?) Parliament voted to ban the use of lead ammunition in wetlands where ‘wetlands’ include peatlands such as blanket bogs where much (by no means all) driven grouse shooting occurs in the UK. Now,…