The boiling frog
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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RPA considering…
Several readers of this blog contacted the Rural Payments Agency at the news of the conviction of a Norfolk gamekeeper for poisoning birds of prey. They have received letters of this form: Thank you for your recent e-mail concerning the Norfolk gamekeeper found guilty of killing protected species of birds. I can confirm that…
More Crex than ever – well, for 45 years.
The Corncrake is not the most charismatic bird in the world – a Moorhen-like bird that lives in long grass, has a rasping ‘song’ (crex! crex!) which it mostly sings at night and looks like it finds getting airborne difficult, but which flies to the other side of the Sahara every year (and back of…
Gamekeepers
Yesterday evening’s blog did not overflow with complimentary remarks about gamekeepers – it could have done, but it didn’t. An occupation which evokes such strong and negative responses has an image problem – and that is true however fair or unfair are the comments. We don’t hear that much from gamekeepers in the debates over…
Get the big cats purrrrrring please
The World Land Trust, of which I am a Council member, is raising money for big cat conservation – including Bengal Tiger, Puma and Jaguar (I’d just love to see a Jaguar!). Not only will the WLT be purrrrring with pleasure and gratitude if you hand over some dosh but they will be doubly purrrring…