Just a few things that caught my eye beaver chips for beavers and for Christmas badger e-petition seems a bit stuck around 65,000 signatures hardback copies of A Message from Martha – all gone! online auction for elephants by World Land Trust more young people (apparently that is 16-34 – so not very young!) are…
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‘Defending our way of life’
In this month’s copy of The Field there is a page about the role of the the GWCT’s science in defending ‘our way of life’ which is surely a misprint for ‘our hobby of death’. The article is written by the GWCT’s chair, the tadpole conserver himself, Mr Ian Coghill, and it is basically an…
More dull techy stuff
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I think that the changes to this website – many of which will have passed many of you by (I know) – have generally been successful. The site is (according to data) loading a lot quicker (please tell me if you have problems). The collateral damage that seemed to accompany that was that some links…
BPOTY competition
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The Bird Photographer of The Year competition always provides a feast of superb images. If you would like to enter an image then you have until midnight on Wednesday to do so – here are the details (and there are many categories). This Little Ringed Plover (by Marc Albiac) won the Cameron Belspolka Trust category…
Strictly will be a desert without Ed Balls…
… so bring on the plague of locusts! Aren’t locusts amazing? Did you see them last night on Planet Earth 2? How amazing?!! But we did do for the Rocky Mountain Locust without even trying – see A Message from Martha p202-03. And the scorpion-eating bat from the Negev? And the shoulder-barging giraffe? And the…
Test
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This is a test
British Beavers Back to stay
Eurasian Beavers living in northern Britain, Scotland actually, are to be given legal protection so that they can spread their range naturally. This is a big step forward for rewilding proponents and anti-de-wilding proponents but I forecast trouble ahead. Already the NFUS is up in arms about this and has said that proper management of…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Benjamin Franklin wanted the Wild Turkey to be the national bird of the USA instead of the actual choice of the Bald Eagle. He wrote to his daughter thus: “For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character….
A modest proposal
If you need a licence to release native UK species, such as Red Kites, into the environment you should surely need a licence to release non-native species such as Pheasants into the countryside.
Planet Earth 2 – (3)
No snakes again – where were the chaser, racer, pacer snakes? You can’t go far wrong in a jungle can you? Birds of Paradise? The far end of males being daft just because females demand it (see Remarkable Birds). Jaguars – the Snow Leopards of warm wet places? The Capybara got away just like Ed…