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…

Even more than you thought…

GWCT have just published a paper revising the number of released Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges released into the UK. Instead of there being roughly 50 million non-native gamebirds released into the UK countryside at this time of year, the figure has now (2016 estimates) risen to closer to 60 million (47m Pheasants and 10m Red-legged…

Interim good news

The Glover review is showing a bit of ankle and it looks quite attractive in some ways. The trouble with these sneak previews of reports is that one knows that they are aiming to give something to everyone and that the full report might not be so attractive and, in any case, it all depends…