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Protecting Little Terns with EU help

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Juvenile Little Tern.  Photo: Tim Melling A press release issued by the RSPB on behalf of themselves, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Denbighshire County Council, Durham County Council, Industry Nature Conservation Association (INCA), Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, National Trust, Natural England, Northumberland County Council/Northumberland Coast AONB and Spurn Bird Observatory Trust. ‘Terning’ the tide – protecting a small…

A video for Rural Crime Day

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It’s Rural Crime Day today – did you know? Neither did I until a few moments ago. This video was published over a month ago but I missed it. It’s the work of Carla Slack, Emma Williams and Liam Shevill at Leeds Arts University for the RSPB. Good isn’t it?

Another message from another NE staff member

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An NE staff member writes: I work for NE and I applaud your bashing of us, despite how terrible it makes me feel. Keep up the good work, we’ll be abolished soon, given that we seemingly have no support from anywhere. Hopefully I’ll still have a career in the aftermath. However, there is some good…

A response from NE

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The folowing, received on Friday morning, refers to this. Dear Mr Mark Avery, Thank you for your complaint of Friday the 2nd of November 2018 with regards to FOI requests. We are committed to fully investigating all complaints from our customers and you will receive a response at stage 1 of the complaints process no later…

NE ‘compliance’ and information requests

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I sent this to NE this morning; The ICO guidance to public bodies on Time Limits for Compliance states that bodies such as NE should be able ‘account for, and justify, the length of time taken to meet the obligation’ when the ‘authority complies close to, or on, the final day of the 20 working…

A response from NE

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Here is a response from NE to an information request from myself to follow up an earlier one. We discover not very much in the first answer, and that the MoU has not been renewed a year after it expired from the second answer. This is another example of an information request, a pretty straight…

Bowland’s burning

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This image, from a walker, shows moorland burning a few days ago on Forest of Bowland grouse moors. This burn was on the slopes of Conder Head. Now, the Duke of Westminster’s Abbeystead Estate has signed up to the voluntary agreement not to burn blanket bog – so was this a transgression? According to this…

MPs’ responses on #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife

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Not a great deal of MP action this week. I had a letter from my own MP (dated 23 October) in response to my email to him (8 October) saying that ‘In order to ensure that Ministers are aware of your concerns and to provide you with an official and fully informed response’ … ‘I…

Dutch People’s Walk for Wildlife

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Last Sunday some friends in The Netherlands had their own Walk for Wildlife – and they had better weather than we did! Here is the message that Chris Packham sent them in advance. And a link to an account of the walk – in English (and for our Dutch readers here, here) It looks good…