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…
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Dear Mr Pursglove
Happy New Year! This is quite a long communication, so I have structured it into three sections: things I’d like you to know as my MP (and my contribution to your Listening to Corby and east Northants campaign), things I’d like to ask you (not the government – you) as my MP, and things I…
Losses
There is what now seems a rather poignant review of Martin Garner’s Birding Frontiers Challenge Series: Winter in the February British Birds. Martin passed away, after a long illness, last week. Here are some last thoughts from Martin. And a link to the Birding Frontiers website. The same BB has an obituary of Norman Moore…
‘More birds of prey illegally killed in the Peak District National Park’
The headline says it all: ‘Reward offered as more birds of prey are illegally killed in the Peak District National Park’. Amongst many press releases issued yesterday by Derbyshire Police, between a couple dealing with illegal off-roading in the Dales and romance fraud, Derbyshire Police and RSPB offered £1000 for information on yet more birds…