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…
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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…
Just rubbish
We have our rubbish (non-recyclable) collected once a fortnight. This was the contents of our bin two weeks ago so it didn’t seem worth putting out. Yesterday, after another two weeks, we had added another small bag (mostly plastic wrapping that is non-recyclable)(see below). But further down our street the bins are bulging (every fortnight),…
Going, going…
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Time is running short to order signed copies of Remarkable Birds – the ideal Christmas present for so many people! Stocks are getting lower all the time and I won’t be able to order more copies from the publisher and then get them to you before Christmas when current stocks run out. So, if you…
Not finished yet.
Our judicial review of brood meddling needs a third day. We don’t yet know when that day might be. More information when I have more information.