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…
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Tortoise media – try this article for a taste.
Read Simon Barnes’s long article on Sir David Attenborough. Tortoise is a great idea – I’ve signed up.
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…
Theresa Villiers’s Countryfile Live speech
Not much to quicken the pulse here https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/environment-secretarys-speech-at-countryfile-live-2019
A Distant Call
The Artisans are an indie group based in the north of England. They released their debut album in April: “one of the guitar pop albums of the year” and “the most charming and quirky shimmering guitar pop.” You can download A Distant Call from Monday 12 August – to coincide with the Inglorious 12th. Email:…
International Bog Day (yesterday)
Yesterday was International Bog Day which reminded me that I recently got an email from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust thanking me for my donation to their peat appeal – an appeal which raised over £47,000 for peatland restoration work. And here’s the team saying thank you! You don’t get many 3-second videos! I notice there…
Ticks
Ticks – even talk of them is enough to make one itch. Remember that Mountain Hares are killed in enormous numbers, causing massive population declines, on grouse moors largely because they carry ticks. And the ticks carry the virus that leads to louping ill (in sheep and Red Grouse for starters). So I was interested…
An important step for the Seahorse Trust.
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A step in the right direction for the Seahorse Trust. Yesterday the Seahorse Trust sought, and was granted, permission to bring judicial review proceedings. Permission was granted on all grounds following a 3 hour hearing at Court 46 of the Royal Courts of Justice. There will now be a full 2-day substantive hearing in the…
How many bad apples?
When Charlie Jacobey was telling me what I thought, and occasionally letting me get a word in edgeways, he reckoned that there were just a few bad apples in the shooting industry. I reckoned there were lots. The latest very sad news of a Hen Harrier caught in a trap on a grouse shooting estate…
Another…
See Raptor Persecution UK – more on this news later today