This evening, probably, MPs will vote on what is almost always called Mrs May’s agreement with the EU – it’s interesting that it is less often called the government’s agreement, probably because the government keeps losing members over it. It seems unlikely that TM the PM will win her vote. But if she does we…
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EDM #1963
Early Day Motions are used to highlight issues. Well done to Caroline Lucas and her four cosignatories for raising the issue of lead ammunition in this way. The text of their EDM is as follows: That this House notes that even low levels of lead are toxic to humans and other animals and that in…
You reckon?
RaptorPersecutionUK wrote about this letter in the Shooting Gazette recently (see here). Mr Davis’s main point, that shooting organisations need to get together and make a plan of attack (an interesting choice of words), just isn’t going to happen any more than it does at the moment. I’d say that the shooting organisations do quite…
Scottish Wildlife Crime report for 2017
I welcome the reduction in offences but it is disappointing that wildlife crime and raptor persecution continue to threaten Scotland’s natural heritage and damage the reputation of our country. Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform This review of wildlife crime cases is worth a look as it puts the…
Not much happening…
Photo: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons The UK has ground to a halt in a post-referendum, pre-meaningful vote, bad-tempered muddle. Please send guest blogs immediately – guidelines here.
Listening
I’ve been enjoying the 15-minute series of programmes this week on Radio 4 called New Year Solutions which are about living more sustainably. They are non-preachy and seem to be pretty well-researched on the whole. There are five programmes as follows: Monday – meat – I thought this was very good. Tuesday – cars –…
Deep peat revisited
Conder Head back in October 2018 I’ve been worrying about deep peat in the Bowland Fells for weeks. Well, not all the time but off and on. I asked NE whether the area on which a reader of this blog had seen heather burning a couple of months ago (see above) was in fact blanket…
Christmas targets
To dip: verb, slang: to miss a sighting of an interesting, often rare example of wildlife (usually bird) which is known to be or recently has been in an area. Being in the right place at the wrong time. I still haven’t seen the Hen Harrier that is hanging around on my local patch of…
Lodge Hill – news
Homes England press release: Homes England has proposed a new approach to the Lodge Hill development on the Hoo Peninsula in Medway, which will avoid direct Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) impacts on the Lodge Hill site. Following further careful consideration of the environmental sensitivities in and around the site, the new plans are for up…
Your National Parks and AONBs need you!
If you are going to respond to the consultation on National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England, and I do hope you will, then you have until 18 December (that’s Tuesday) to do so. Maybe a task for this weekend? Here is the link. It doesn’t take very long to respond to…