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Sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting here.

FC England is consulting on the future of its forests in an upland area, in a National Park – did you immediately think of Dartmoor? I bet you didn’t. See here and here for interesting, conservation-oriented takes on the proposals and the links that will allow you to express a view – by 19 July….

I’ve been out for a couple of days with two of my friends: Henry and Chris Packham. We’ve been making films.   More on this later – for sure.

Many have received the following communication from North Yorks Police after their investigation into the cautioning of a gamekeeper employed on the Mossdale Estate near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park for an offence involving the setting of poletraps.   You wrote to us recently to complain about our decision to caution a man,…

It may have been a wet June but the sun was shining on this blog. With a little under 30,000 unique visitors and over 113,000 page views this blog had its second most successful month ever (in terms of those measurements). The most successful was April 2016.  

  After Henry’s visit to the Game Fair last year the CLA admitted defeat and ended the CLA Game Fair. This year there are several game fairs on the go but the ‘UK Game Fair’ has fallen by the wayside, presumably in anticipation of the Brexit result. That’s a shame as I was going to…

I really am struggling to think of anything realistic and positive for the environment that will come out of our Brexit. Here is an example that would fit beautifully into the Brexiteers’ suggestion that we could do so much better when we regain control of our own destiny – but it simply won’t happen, I…

It was almost like Glastonbury yesterday in Glapthorn Cow Pasture – a huge crowd (of eight of us – but that is huge for there) and muddy underfoot. The Black Hairstreaks were performing very nicely – and the eight of us had about a half a butterfly each on average. You can always tell where…