The campaign to protect Coul Links is important to me. I know the site and the thought of it becoming yet another golf course when it is so important for wildlife is abhorrent and, in many ways, sums up the ways in which wildlife is so often pushed aside in the modern age. And I…
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Countryfile makes a comeback
It is worth watching the piece on moorland burning that went out on Countryfile last night. (Click here from 14mins – 25mins in) There are claims that the system designed to protect [blanket bog] is not fit for purpose https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002tww/countryfile-gloucestershire Well done to Guy Shrubsole and Friends of the Earth! That dossier of burning on…
Licensed to kill
Yesterday’s Guardian story about the scale of licenses given out by Natural England for killing otherwise protected birds builds on the earlier revelations in the blog of Jason Endfield. The number of birds, eggs and nests involved (170,000) does look eye-wateringly large and the public reaction has been similarly large. My view, as expressed here…
Slow progress with EDM #1963
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Caroline Lucas’s Early Day Motion to ban the use of lead ammunition is making leaden progress (see Caroline’s guest blog here) There are now 22 MPs signed up including one former Labour MP now a member of the Independent Group (Mike Gapes) and the latest addition is the SNP’s Deidre Brock.
Save the Gwent Levels from the Welsh Assembly Government
If Natural Resources Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government’s regulator and advisor, is against the plans to drive a motorway through the wildlife-rich Gwent Levels, then why is the Welsh Assembly Government intent on doing just that? My mother grew up in this part of South Wales and so I have personal memories of it. And…
NEWS: bad news for grouse shooting
It seems we have another five weeks or so to wait until the long, long, long awaited analysis of NE’s Hen Harrier tagging data is published. But the title of the paper ‘Patterns of satellite tagged hen harrier disappearances suggest widespread illegal killing on British grouse moors’ is somewhat revealing. No doubt Michael Gove and…
Smart bird needs help!
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To help the World Land Trust save this species – through protecting its habitat – please click here for more information and the opportunity to donate.
Slightly random
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I am a BBC Radio4 addict. I find it difficult not to listen to Today, the World at One and PM through the day even when they are filled with irritating bits! I have many other favourite programmes and I even listen to Woman’s Hour quite often, but you can hear enough of female genital…
Les Wallace – congratulations!
Congratulations! And well done, Les Wallace! You have triggered a response from Defra. More on this tomorrow. Night night all!
Today
Today I am going for a drive, going for a walk, going for a drive, giving a talk, going for a drive. I think I will pass through six counties, but it might be more. I think I will leave home before 8am and get home after 10pm. I think I might see some Marsh…