I was contacted by Awemix Watches about their Time to Care scheme. They wanted to send me a watch to help promote their scheme where 20% of the sale price goes to good causes – which are currently Breast Cancer and Wildlife and Conservation. The chosen charities change every now and again but are…
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Nature’s Way – the environment for success
This report from WWT is good – it’s one of the best I’ve seen from them and one of the best I’ve seen from a wildlife NGO for a while. What’s good about it? Well, it is a bit more intellectually challenging than most of the recent NGO reports and it also less politically…
I wish!
You will have to be towards the more birder end of things amongst readers of this blog to spot why I raised my eyebrows when seeing this sign at a local Wildlife Trust site. Should we call it a mistake or a prediction? If you don’t understand have a look here under taxonomy.
Not just a local issue
Were you listening to Today on Radio 4 this morning when there was a discussion about intensive farming and intensive broiler chicken production (listen here at 51 minutes into programme)? There is a planning application near where I live for a new intensive broiler unit to rear day-old chicks to table weight. Ten poultry sheds…
It’s Big Match fortnight
WLT Treasure Chest Appeal – save the green gold of the Caribbean. Sierra Santa Cruz is the last unprotected rainforest in Caribbean Guatemala. From jaguars and pumas to bejewelled hummingbirds, golden bats and Critically Endangered frogs, this mountain range is a wild treasure chest. But this rich habitat is under threat. Deforestation for Oil Palm…
Local issue – Higham Ferrers and Rushden, Northants
When I went to the local farmers’ market this morning, after a walk at Stanwick Lakes, I learned of this proposed new development (ref 17/01328/ful East Northants District Council) just to the east of the A6 near Rushden. I’ll be looking at this over the weekend – I think objections (or messages of support, of…
Preston magistrates court
Yesterday I headed up the M6 to attend a trial in Preston magistrates courts. Appropriately enough, at Keele Services, a Peregrine flew over as I was returning to the car. The defendant, James Hartley, 34, denied a number of offences against Peregrine Falcons on the Bleasdale Estate, Bowland, Lancashire in April 2016. These included the alleged…
Corbyn speech
Interesting – mentions of climate change near the beginning, of fox hunting too and a passage on a green economy towards the end. Not bad, but if Labour were moving on on environmental issues then maybe a quick mention of the Badger cull would have been the easiest way to signal it. Opportunity missed ….
Stormies on the Shiants
Calling Storm Petrels have been recorded for the very first time on the Shiants this summer, an important milestone for the Shiant Isles Recovery Project, which is working to make the islands suitable for these small seabirds to nest. The characteristic ‘churring’ call was heard from burrows, an encouraging sign that the project is working….
Can I travel anywhere with a clear conscience?
Countries are like people – none is perfect and none is absolutely beyond redemption (one hopes). Only in the oldest and simplest of western films (and I like westerns), the most tribal of politics and the most intolerant of minds are people good or bad with no shades of grey in between. You’re not perfect…