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I’ve been enjoying the 15-minute series of programmes this week on Radio 4 called New Year Solutions which are about living more sustainably. They are non-preachy and seem to be pretty well-researched on the whole. There are five programmes as follows: Monday – meat – I thought this was very good. Tuesday – cars –…

Last year I kept an eye open for Red Kites – and saw them very often through the year – over 200 days in 2018. I enjoyed keeping that eye open and wondered what to do this year. So, I’ve decided that I will keep a monthly list of species I see from my home…

Conder Head back in October 2018 I’ve been worrying about deep peat in the Bowland Fells for weeks. Well, not all the time but off and on. I asked NE whether the area on which a reader of this blog had seen heather burning a couple of months ago (see above) was in fact blanket…

The Terra Incognita Wildlife Blogger (and Runners Up) of the Year 2018 have been announced. First prize winner: Gianluca Gerullo The rare jungle cat that thrives in degraded rainforests Runner up: Asiem Sanyal Mulling over culling Joint third placed: Alex Brickle The one that got away and Jess Murray The truth behind my lion selfie

2019 will be another bad year for driven grouse shooting. Here are some of the reasons: the long, long, long-awaited analysis of the NE Hen Harrier tagging data should be published soon. Getting these data published clearly hasn’t been as straightforward as the authors had hoped as back in mid-August they were hoping that the…