Do let it grow under your feet

I am quite busy in my post-RSPB life but I do find I have more time to read things that I would have meant to read in the past, but around to which I would not have got.  This report, Nature’s Tapestry, is a good example of something which I am glad that I can…

The raptor haters – Sir Max Hastings

The raptor haters is an occasional series of articles on people who slag off birds of prey. Just over a week ago I was sitting next to Sir Max Hastings at the Game Fair and got on surprisingly well with him but he’s gone down in my estimations, not that that should worry him too…

Save the BBC Wildlife Fund – and help it save wildlife

Have a look at this and see what you think.  There were just over 300 signatures a few moments ago – let’s see how many we can sign up by the end of today as a start. As a former Environment Secretary Lord Patten should be sufficiently naturally cultured to know that this is a…

Mark Avery is working hard…

Mark Avery is working hard for someone else right now – today’s blog will appear later in the day. Blogging for Nature is my book of blogs from my RSPB days.  It contains 143 blogs out of over 700 which I wrote during my last two years as the RSPB’s Conservation Director.  The last blog…

Big Society and forestry and farming

Forestry came up in the debate in which I participated at the Game Fair. Remember the Government was heading towards a consultation on its Big Society/Small Government plans to sell off or hive off some of the forest estate to communities and businesses when it scrapped the consultation and promised to think again, and along…