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The management of deer in Scotland (and elsewhere) is a matter of mutual concern to nature conservationists and land managers alike. In the report of the Deer Working Group just over a year ago this recommendation was clear; The Working Group recommends that the Scottish Government should make a clear commitment to end the use…

I’m one of a pile of signatories to this letter to George Eustice, Secretary of State for DEFRAomnishambles. Most of the other signatories know a lot more about peat and gardening than I do, but I can tell you that my enthusiasm for growing tomatoes, generated in lockdown last year, means that I know how…

#stateofnature petition https://bit.ly/3kjLIsX

I was reading the paper this morning, when something caught my attention… …and put a smile on my face… …and I realised that to get headlines like these in 2030… …that we had to do this… #stateofnature petition https://bit.ly/3kjLIsX …and then everyone will be happy and can claim the credit – but actually, it was…

Having done a good job in falling out with people who live in towns, people with degrees and people who work in conservation organisations Robin Page has a smaller and smaller pool of people with whom to fall out but he contines undaunted. He’s now falling out with the trustees of the Countryside Restoration Trust,…