Standing up for Nature
Writing competition: I hope you enjoyed the first two winners of this blog’s writing competition by Hazel Peters (under – 18 category) and Hugh Webster (international category). Both have their copies of Remarkable Birds. We judges are reading the Wildlife and Arts entries and finding it difficult to choose between them. I hope the winner…
World Land Trust (of which I am a Council member) is working with Wildlife Trust of India in an urgent bid to save Indian Elephants from extinction by safeguarding their traditional migration routes. The Elephant Corridor Appeal aims to raise £750,000 to extend and protect Mudahalli Corridor, where the Eastern and Western Ghats meet in…
Well that was interesting! The evidence session yesterday took something like twice as long as the time for which it was scheduled because of the interest from MPs. That’s a good thing. The transcript of the session should be available later today, I guess (which is remarkably quick). I’ll look forward to reading it as…
No news that I can spot on the Hawk and Owl Trust website following their AGM 10 days ago. Slightly odd? Have there been new trustees elected?Was the Chair re-elected? Or what? Is it a secret? The H&OT say in part of their website that they are supporting two elements of the government’s hopeless Hen…