The government 25-year plan for the environment is a significant document. It covers most of the correct ground and says many good things. The proof of it, as noted by many others, will be in the extent to which it is delivered, but in six months Michael Gove has moved the Conservative Party quite some…
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Well done Private Eye!
I’m looking very carefully at magazine wrappers that come through my letter box these days. I’m impressed (easily!) that Private Eye thinks that my copy is urgent but even more so by the very clear statement of the fact that this wrapper is recyclable and where it can be recycled (and has the logo to…
Yesterday
Yesterday: 1. I went for a walk: gosh it was cold! I went somewhere where a drake Smew had recently been seen, and the weather seemed perfect for a snow-white duck from the far north, but I didn’t see one. I did see a pair of Goosander and lots of other ducks but I actually…
Plastic wrappings
This is today’s third blog about the RSPB. First we had a good piece of research, then their cogitations on doing the right thing and now a confusing question about packaging of the magazine, Nature’s Home. When I came home from seeing Hawfinches yesterday there were two magazines waiting for me, Nature’s Home and Private…
Looking back over 2017
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I sometimes think that this blog only writes about banning driven grouse shooting – important though that is to me, it is not the only thing in the world. But looking back over the year and the blogs I have written myself, there is a fair amount of variety. Here are some blogs, one from…
Happy Christmas!
This blog will start posting again on 27 December
British Wildlife magazine
The December issue of British Wildlife came through my letter box yesterday but others must have got theirs earlier as I had a few emails and messages on social media about my column. Here’s a taster: ‘On the ground, local NE staff may well be doing their best, and will be doing some good, but…
Ho! Ho! Ho!
In the latest GWCT email to members and supporters, their cheery chair, Ian Coghill, spreads the Christmas good will by asking for money so that most people don’t get what they want after Brexit but what farmers and gamekeepers want! Post-Brexit Policy Appeal As we leave the EU, the GWCT…
‘New’ raptor persecution maps produced by Defra
Defra has just published old and incomplete maps of raptor persecution events on the Magic system. These are worth having a glance at and I’ll be looking at them more closely through the day, as I’m sure will Raptor Persecution UK (this is right up their street), but if you have ever looked at the…
Don’t presume
The Westminster government is very keen on presumed consent. This week it has said that it wishes to move towards a position of presumed consent for organ donation, ie that unless we opt out then we are presumed to be opted in. That’s fine by me However, the government had a blow this week to…