UK industry starts chemical attack on China

https://www.farminguk.com/news/uk-game-farmers-announce-trade-deal-with-hong-kong_53781.html All that lead – not very friendly really, is it. But how reassuring that the BGA play the dual role of marketing body and ‘regulator’. I thought poachers were supposed to turn gamekeeper in the saying, not occupy the same two roles at once?

Song of the Skydancer by the Talkin Fellas

From their album, Gather at the Lek, here is a track about raptor persecution by the Talkin Fellas (and see here too). Gather At The Lek by Ian Ryding, Nick Dodds, Mic Mayhew

A chat about the uplands between me and Charlie Moores

I wrote a short piece about the uplands in the Manifesto for Wildlife last year and a slightly longer piece on this blog a while later – click here (actually, I’ve just re-read it and I think it is worth re-reading, even if i say so myself). Charlie moores caught me in an unguarded moment…

I wonder who got that changed…?

Earlier this year the North Pennines AONB Partnership published a draft of its new Management Plan 2019-2024. Consultations were held and a report setting out the results of those consultations was promised, but it has not yet appeared as far as I’ve seen – I’ve been looking now and again. The draft remained on the…