Today (28 June) sees the final release of hand-raised black-tailed godwits as part of an emergency intervention which has thrown the critically endangered wetland bird a lifeline and helped increase its chances of survival. Data collected by a five year partnership between the RSPB and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) called Project Godwit, shows the…
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What you think of the new RSPB logo
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I asked what you thought of the new RSPB logo and this is how you responded: Those figures ought to please the RSPB – a majority of people are positive and very few hate it. And let’s be clear, everyone will get used to it. This poll wasn’t a carefully selected representative sample of the…
Two Fin Whales landed in Iceland as whaling season opens
The first Fin Whales (two of them) to be landed in Iceland since 2018 were brought ashore yesterday morning. The total quota is 193 whales – 161 for this year plus some extra as there were no whales killed last year. See article here with quite a lot of pictures.
Press release – Flying kites: the UK’s most successful bird conservation project returns the favour – and chicks – to Spain
The UK’s most successful bird conservation project – for red kites – has come full circle and is now donating kite chicks to a similar project in Spain, the country that provided chicks for our red kite reintroduction project to England almost 35 years ago. In 1989, an ambitious project began to restore red kite…
The new RSPB logo – what do you think of it?
The RSPB has a new logo and has explained the thinking behind it – click here. What do you think? Here is a one question poll with five answers – click here.