Careful long-term readers of this blog will have been in a better position than most to understand the significance of the court action being taken by Client Earth, FoE and RSPB in relation to the UK government deciding to ignore its obligations to provide access to environmental justice for its citizens under the Aarhus Convention….
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Opportunity for 12-16 year olds
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Last summer I was an old green person on a panel of young green people at the WOMAD festival. I was supposed to be mentoring the smiling young man called Josh pictured above but he didn’t need much mentoring. Josh had come to WOMAD from an Action for Conservation Summer Camp and if…
Success for Dukes of North Yorkshire
Thank you to all of the readers of this blog who supported the crowdfunder for habitat management to support Duke of Burgundy butterflies. They did it! In fact the target of £6000 was smashed with £9,763 raised. Thank you to Steve Bamford for his Guest Blog. And thank you to all who have supported the…
Oscar Dewhurst – Cormorant
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Oscar Dewhurst: A few years ago I spent several days photographing Cormorants in Hyde Park, where they would fish underneath the Serpentine Bridge. The great thing about this location was the shade from the bridge meant the water would appear completely black in the resulting photos. This was taken as the bird surfaced from an…
Bottom of the shooting league table?
The review of gamebird shooting regulation across Europe carried out for SNH is a cracking read – a real eye-opener. Decision-makers across the UK should study it carefully. What emerges from it is that gamebird shooting in the UK (in all four countries) is way adrift of the European norm in terms of standards of…