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A group of environmental and wildlife conservation organisations (Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Plantlife, Marine Conservation Society, National Trust for Scotland, RSPB and Scottish Wildlife Trust)issued the following press release just before noon today; Scottish Ministers have “called-in” plans for a golf course at Coul Links near Embo, East Sutherland after deciding that the case is of…

For ages, and ages, and ages our big brother of a blog, RaptorPersecutionUK and this blog have been asking NE when they are going to publish the results of their long-lasting Hen Harrier study.  One of my first blogs on the subject was back in May 2012 when I was barely out of short trousers….

Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist and nature writer, based in North Yorkshire. My summers follow a familiar structure. The rampant joy of May, the hot and heady days of June, the awful realization in July that cuckoos and swifts are already looking south and that it can’t last. But in August, a holiday allows…

I’ve been sent this passage from two SNH staff (the versions differ by a few letters and commas – I’ll put that down to transcription errors) – that they say was put out on the internal SNH intranet by their Director of Operations, Nick Halfhide, following the withdrawal by the Scottish Raptor Study Group of…

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…