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This is good to see

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It’s good to see that this dataset has been updated. I’ve only had time to give it a quick glance but the errors I (we) spotted do seem to have been corrected. I’m told that RPUK will be updating their maps in due course.

This will be dynamite.

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After years of pressure from this blog and RaptorpersecutionUK Natural England has released a complicated Excel table of Hen Harriers’ last satellite fixes, in the middle of the night and with no media release or mention anywhere. This coincided with the presentation of … something … we don’t quite know what, and NE don’t want…

22 September Walk for Wildlife

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I’m sure we will see members and staff from all of these organisations in Hyde Park  on 22 September – Walking for Wildife. But it will be interesting to see whether, as organisations, they promote the walk to their memberships.  I do hope they do. It would be odd if they don’t. No doubt the…

Dear John

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I missed seeing Sir John Lister-Kaye at the Bird Fair but I’m told he gave an excellent talk about raptor persecution.  He’s a good speaker, I know, and I’m sure his talk will have motivated many of his audience on this important subject. I’m told, by upwards of a dozen people (so I’m pretty sure…

British Wildlife – Fake National Parks

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The August issue of British Wildlife arrived through my letterbox this morning – has yours? I won’t have time to settle down and read it until after the Bird Fair but I did have a quick flick through my own piece on our Fake National Parks – I fear this may raise a few hackles….

Shared outcomes?

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No doubt NE upland staff stood on this bit of Snilesworth Moor on their recent visit and discussed the ins and outs of the burning code etc. Burning guidelines (another voluntary code) say the moss layer under the heather on blanket bogs needs to remain intact and that appears to be a bit doubtful here…