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A record February for this blog
February had an extra day this year, but even ignoring Saturday this February was a record for this blog with over 105,000 page views (107,799 including 29th) and close to 18,000 ‘users’ (17,834 including 29th). This is the first February to have exceeded 89,000 pageviews, let alone 99,000 pageviews of this blog. So I must…
Wow! Very significant
Using the courts to protect the environment – it can work. What a massive result.
Moorland Association demands payment
The following is an extract from the Moorland Association response to a DEFRA consultation on burning of blanket bogs, peatlands and heather moors. Payments, payments, grants, payments, payments… What does the Moorland Association want? It’s pretty clear – they want either to be left alone to damage priority habitats as they have done for decades…
News round up
Here are a few things that caught my eye recently, and I will be writing more about some of them next week: Wild Justice forces DEFRA to act on non-native gamebirds – see DEFRA announcement. I wouldn’t say that this was too little too late, but it is late and it isn’t clear whether it…
7000th blog post
This is this blog’s 7000th post since starting up in April 2011. I didn’t write them all but I have read them all! How about you? There is a slowly growing archive of posts to be found here.
Catfield Fen again
I’ve been writing about the battle to save Catfield Fen since spring 2012 (and I’ve added those blog posts to the curated archive – click here). Although most of the previous 10 posts were in 2012-2014, and the apparent victory by the land owners, Tim and Geli Harris, to save a wildlife gem from water…
Joke response to Committee on Climate Change report from Moorland Association
Last week the Moorland Association released a joke response to the Climate Change Committee report on land use which recommended an end to rotational burning on peatlands this year. Now you wouldn’t think that would be exactly what the Moorland Association would want but they still have the brass neck to write; The Moorland Association…
Ban burning of upland peatlands now – says Climate Change Committee
In their latest important report, this one on land use, the Climate Change Committee calls for an immediate banning of burning of upland peatlands. The report does not say blanket bog, it does not say deep peat, it simply says peatlands – that means all of it, not some of it. There is much more…
Guest blog: Nature’s Climate Rebels by Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust
I work on climate, ecological and environmental issues, with a history in renewable energy and conservation. But most things I do now are in response to the climate emergency; I want to help people and wildlife adapt because I believe things are going to get a lot worse, pretty quickly. As a personal response I…