It would be perfectly possible to write about birds of prey, how wonderful they are and their troubled and shortened lives, every day on this blog. I try not to do that because there are other sites that do it so well (raptor politics and raptor persecution Scotland) and because there are other big issues…
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Ralph Underhill cartoon
Speaking and signing and so forth
I have been doing even more talking than usual recently! I’ve talked at my former school (Bristol Grammar), at a debate on pandas at the Linnaean Society, to a bunch of young conservationists at Cambridge University and on Radio 4’s Saving Species programme on raptors. Tomorrow I am RSPB Leighton Moss talking (1100-1200) about nature…
It’s about TB
After the decision to delay the badger-cull pilot study it might be that badgers are breathing a sigh of relief. Except they won’t be because we don’t have in place effective measures to limit the spread of bovine TB in badgers and cattle and from one to the other (both ways!). One huge problem with…
Five years on…
On the evening of 24 October 2007 I was on the train to London and received a phone call from one of my staff. He told me that he had received a report from a Natural England staff member who had just seen two hen harriers shot out of the air on or near the…