Birdwatch Feb 2021

This month’s Birdwatch is a cracker. How do you identify redpolls? A good question – and there are some good answers here. Josh Jones makes the case that we should look even more carefully at gulls because there are some potential additions to the British list that might well tuen up – fortune favours the…

DEFRA statement on heather burning

England’s ‘national rainforests’ to be protected through new legislation to prevent heather burning on blanket bog  The government has today announced plans to bring forward legislation to prevent the burning of heather and other vegetation on protected blanket bog habitats. The new regulations will prevent the burning of any specified vegetation on areas of deep peat (over 40cm depth) on…

Wild Justice Badger petition heads to 90,000 signatures

Have a look at this petition please, and see if you can sign it. And then ask a friend to sign it too. See some of the details on the Wild Justice blog – click here.

Badger cull goes on and on

The Badger cull is not to be effectively banned in 2022, it is to be slightly scaled down it seems to me. You see what you think – click here. We’ve been here before where DEFRA say that culling Badgers is coming to an end and that was followed by a massive increase in culling!…