A few things that caught my eye

the abject ‘you forgot the…now what was it?‘ website seems to have folded up, in that it no longer has its plea for a 100 farmers to sign up to a letter slagging off the RSPB – all gone! all gone! talking of things that are forgotten…Keith Cowieson completely failed to answer the question about…

Meat-free week – support World Land Trust (please)

Next week, 23-29 March, is meat-free week. As someone wh0 has at least four meat-free days most weeks, this probably isn’t going to be too much of a stretch for me, and a friend of mine who has given up meat for Lent will just breeze through it. My vegetarian and vegan friends (actually, do…

Still a slim chance

Parliament is dissolved in 11 days’ time and that is all the time that remains for Defra to do something this year! It could be about to release a report suggesting a lead-free future, but I somehow doubt it. It could be about to throw lots of money in the direction of the Hawk and…

Pitcairn marine protected area announced

I’m ‘on the road’ so this blog is very short, but I was delighted to hear that hidden in the budget documentation was the announcement that there is to be a marine protected area around the Pitcairn Islands. This is a subject that this blog has promoted over the years (see here, here, here, here, here,…

Read BBC Wildlife’s election special

If you are going to vote on 7 May – and I do hope you will – then your preparation should start by  reading the April issue of BBC Wildlife magazine (giraffe on cover). The 6-page election special asks eight questions of the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Lib Dems, Plaid, SNP and UKIP.   The questions…