The joint NGO campaign to get a binding target for nature in the Environment Bill has raised over 82,000 signatures; 72,000 in Week 1 and 10,000 in Week 2. That may not sound great, but if you have been paying close attention, as I have, you’ll know that the first four days of the last…
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I responded to the DEFRA gamebird consultation
DEFRA’s consultation on their proposed gamebird regulation is a shocking example of pretending to do something worthwhile whilst failing to do anything much at all. This is the worst consultation from government I have ever seen – it is so unshamefacedly biased. If we hadn’t all got used to it by now it would be…
Tim Melling – Weasel
Tim writes: I know this isn’t a competition winner but it is an extremely difficult subject to photograph, especially carrying prey. I was out for a walk locally on 11 October when I saw something moving on the track some way ahead. A quick glance through binoculars and I’d identified it as a Weasel that…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Where are we in the league table?
How many birds are killed by ‘hunters’ in each km2 of the UK each year, and how does that compare with other European countries? Have you ever wondered? Neither had I until a reader of this blog put me in touch with the data with which one can work it out. Well it depends what…