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National Wildlife Crime Unit
This small unit is far from perfect: despite all the plaudits given to it, it has been ineffective in addressing most domestic wildlife crime. Still, we’d be worse off without it than we are with it (and it has a tiny budget). So please sign this e-petition and tell your MP that you have signed…
Who was the best/worst Secretary of State for Defra?
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Politician does something – SHOCK!
They do things differently in Scotland (I’m told – and I will be over the border this weekend so I will be keen to find out for myself). In November 2015 (yes! that recently!), the Wildlife Crime Penalties Review Group published its findings on how wildlife crime in Scotland is dealt with by the criminal…
It would be nice…
It would be nice if Long-tailed Tits nested in the garden, but they probably won’t. But it would be really nice if they did. I’m trying not to get my hopes up. There has been a pair feeding on fat balls in the garden for quite a while now – always a pair, so I’m…
My NGO disinvestment strategy
You might remember that I left a whole bunch of organisations at the turn of the year and said I’d invest my money according to how I was feeling about them instead of paying a fixed membership. Well, here’s the first instalment of news on that front: Greenpeace noticed that I’d cancelled my DD and…
Do you tweet (revisited, revisited)
I can’t beleive that it’s almost 18 months since I updated this list of Twitter accounts from some of our favourite wildlife organisations (and BASC and GWCT). But, apparently it is. My Twitter following passed 25,000 a little while ago so I thought that rather than preen myself on the size of my achievement I’d…
Back to normal?
After the run-in to the end of the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (which keeps edging upwards, but stands at 33,647 signatures), and a week of blogs about lead, it’s time to get back to normal (for a while). January was, however, a record month for this blog, with a record number of unique…
Quite surprising really
That was fun – and surprisingly rich in birds. Final tally: Reed Bunting 2 Blackbird 3 Chaffinch 3 Great Tit 1 House Sparrow 7 Greenfinch 10 Starling 10 Woodpigeon 1 Dunnock 2 Goldfinch 3 Blue Tit 2 Robin 1 Collared Dove 2 I’ve just checked last year’s results – amazingly similar! Last year the species…
Remember to…
Remember to do your Big Garden BirdWatch today if you didn’t do it yesterday. I hope to do mine this morning although rain is forecast so it may be postponed until the afternoon. I’ll keep you posted.