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Henry was ‘phoning the RSPB Hen Harrier hotline 0845-4600121 – he thinks it’s a dating service. HaveYouSeenHenry?    

Lord de Mauley seems to think that we are a shoo-in to meet the 2020 biodiversity target of halting biodiversity loss. This is what four of our leading wildlife NGOs think: Martin Warren, Chief Executive of Butterfly Conservation says: ‘I think it is extremely unlikely that the UK will meet all the targets set out…

Henry is quite a chatterbox. He is a people magnet – pity there aren’t more ringtails around for him … This family, and many others, were keen to hear of the plight of Hen Harriers in the Upper Derwent Valley. Just think of the stir when Henry wings in to centres of population. He might…

Defra still hasn’t answered this very simple question – ‘Do ministers sign off on responses to e-petitions. And who signed off the response to John Armitage’s successful e-petition about licensing shooting estates?’ Teresa Dent hasn’t yet replied on behalf of Rules restaurant on the expected levels of poisonous lead in the meat that they sell….

So that was March – spring has not yet fully sprung. I sat by the side of the road in County Durham, and there were displaying waders everywhere – drumming Snipe, tumbling Lapwing, a distant Golden Plover, yelping Redshank and even the occasional bubbling Curlew but the three Blackcock at the lek were just mooching…