Standing up for Nature
Andrew Langley’s fantastic fund-raising deal of a quadrupling of all donations has very, very nearly reached his target of £5000 – he’s just £70 short. And that means he is just £280 short of raising £20,000 for the World Land Trust’s Jungle for Jaguars appeal. I’m sure he’ll get that £70 very soon. The Big…
I’ve been remiss in checking what John Riutta, The Well-read Naturalist, has been reading and blogging about recently so this is a catch-up. All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison. John has beaten me to reviewing this new novel from Melissa Harrison. But having read this review, and having met the author once (and smiled,…
Spanish edition of Remarkable Birds.
The Savill’s annual shoot benchmarking survey for last season makes grim reading for the shooting industry – there aren’t enough takers for the millions of so-called wild birds that are shot for fun and profit every year. Any pretence that shooting is connected to food is a distant memory despite these words in the Code…
As regular readers of this blog will have noticed, I sometimes ask Natural England for information under the Freedom of Information Act regulations. They reply, sometimes with responses that I think are rather inadequate. But I have mentioned here before, and I’ve had this chat with others at times too, that NE tend to respond…
Tim Farron, Lib Dem MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, is a former party leader and currently the Lib Dem Environment spokesperson and spokesperson for the North of England. His response to a constituent about the Manifesto for Wildlife is both quick and positive – and also demonstrates that he has at least glanced at its…
Each year, the US Fish and Widlife Service (hmmm – maybe we could have something a bit like that one day?) produces an analysis of the economic value of hunting, fishing and wildlife watching. Wildlife-watching is apparently worth almost as much to the economy through expenditure on cameras, bird food, binoculars and travel as are…
One of the proposals in Kate Bradbury’s Urban Spaces section in the Manifesto for Wildlife is for ‘Hedgehog holes to be made compulsory in all new fencing‘. This is one of the simplest, most practical and dead easy recommendations in the whole manifesto. And another of the ‘ministers’ involved in the Manifesto for Wildlife, Hugh…