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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…
West Pennine Moors SSSI – 2
It’s a rare enough thing these days for new SSSIs to be notified – and now the West Pennine Moors has been notified. Actually, it’s already a day old. Very wittily the document explaining this points out that it is a 7600+ha extension to three existing small SSSIs. Read the documentation and it seems a…
NE issued four Buzzard-killing licences
Natural England, the former independent conservation agency which now spends much too much of its time issuing licences to kill wildlife, has issued four licences this year to kill Buzzards, a native species of predator, because they might be causing serious damage to livestock known as Pheasant poults (a non-native species released into the UK…
Marty Feldman wouldn’t like it
I’ve been meaning to write about another e-petition for ages but somehow haven’t got around to it until now. David Lindo, the Urban Birder, started a petition to make the Robin our national bird following it winning a vote on the same subject (Hen Harrier came an amazing 9th remember). And it has done very…
Planet Earth 2
No snakes! Where were the snakes? No slithering chaser snakes, just cute Bobcats, Grizzlies and Snow Leopards. Considering the difficulty of glimpsing a Snow Leopard (I’m told), the cameraperson who got four of them in shot at once (a mother and her daughter with two randy males) must have thought that all their Christmases had…
Blocked?
This only applies if you are on Twitter. I did a bit of a clear out on Twitter a little while ago. I stopped following hundreds of accounts and blocked some others too. I have had three people come to me and ask to unblocked – and I have unblocked them all. I’ll do the…