Standing up for Nature
Oscar writes: Earlier this Summer I spent nearly 3 weeks in Peru. Having spent nearly 3 months there in my gap year, it was great to return and show the place to my family. For part of our trip we were staying near the Colca Canyon, and this river ran through the valley at our…
Tim writes: Ring Ouzels have a reputation for being unapproachable and skittish but in places like the Peak District they seem to get used to visitors. In early spring I repeatedly saw a male singing from a favourite song perch rock, trying to attract a female. While he was having some down time I ensconced…
There are still large numbers of Labour MPs who haven’t even responded to their constitutents, after several weeks, on the subject of driven grouse shooting. This is pretty shocking since Labour has has a perfectly respectable standard response that has been sent out by other MPs since at least 24 August. That’s over six weeks…
At the State of Nature launch there was a panel discussion which was very ably chaired by Sue Armstrong-Brown (now of Green Alliance but a former colleague at RSPB). One of the questions to the panel was, in a post-Brexit world which EU environmental policies would you Snog, Marry or Avoid. The panel’s answers were…