Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

  According to the Guardian newspaper, the Expert Committee on Pesticides was told by Defra to postpone publication of minutes after refusing to back an NFU request to use banned neonicotinoids on oil seed rape. On Thursday Defra lifted the ban on use of the controversial neonicotinoid pesticides on oil seed rape seeds on an…

Henry in a butt

Occupy the butts! This one is not a million miles away from the Goyt Valley – site for the Derbyshire Hen Harrier Day rally – but on the day there will be other butt-occupying opportunities.    

Last chance at the EU nature directives consultation saloon

You only have today to respond to the very important consultation on the future of the EU Nature Directives. There have been 470,000 responses online –  a record for this type of EU consultation (94,000 from the UK – who says we aren’t good Europeans?!). You will have a local nature site which is protected…

Have you?

You have today and tomorrow to respond to the very important consultation on the future of the EU Nature Directives. There have been 445,000 responses online –  a record for this type of EU consultation. You will have a local nature site which is protected by these directives and it would be good to send…