The readership of this blog seems to be packed with keen pickers of blackberries. I like the idea that you too have dark-stained fingers having come back from a visit to the hedgerows. This weekend is moving towards the end of the blackberry picking season and the weather forecast isn’t great. I think that a…
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Climate Strike – Friday
I think I’ll go to the Climate Strike event outside BBC Radio Northampton on Friday. It means a long bus ride there and back but…hey…why not? Maybe there’s one near you? Check here.
Guest blog – Sorry Tony, you cannot spin this into a good news story for Natural England by Dominic Woodfield
Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is a life-long birder, a specialist in botany, habitat restoration and creation and in protected fauna including bats, herpetofauna and other species. He is also a highly experienced practitioner in Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations…
Quick update
At the Bird Fair yesterday: it rained a bit the paths were muddy in places (the going was soft, heavy in places) the people were lovely the food was good the beer was good the talks were good – even though I only went to one of them! the Wild Justice e-petition passed several more…
Record July for this blog
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With 118,748 pageviews of this blog in July that is the third highest month of all time (only August and September 2016 were higher). Thank you to all who read, comment and contribute to this bog in any way.
6,000,000+ page views
This blog has had over 6 million pageviews since it started running in April 2011 (or actually since Google Analytics started running on it in July 2011). I have no idea whether to feel delighted or disappointed in that figure – but that’s what it is. Thank you for your ongoing interest in what I…
The results of the summer readers’ poll (2)
Last week I promoted a poll on this blog and through social media on people’s views on a variety of issues. One of those issues was ‘On a scale from 0-9, how in favour or against grouse shooting are you, where 0 is ‘very much against’ and 9 is ‘very much for’?’. What I’ve done…
A few snippets – people and whales
RSPB: the new RSPB CEO, Becky Speight, starts work on 19 August (I was rather hoping it would be the Inglorious 12th for a true taste of what the RSPB is up against). WCL: Elaine King, the CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, has moved on to the post of CEO of the Chilterns Conservation…
The results of the summer readers’ poll (1)
Thank you to over 2300 people who responded to my recent readers’ survey. Here are some summary results. First a few words about how the data were collected. People were asked to participate in four ways: through this blog, through my newsblast, through tweets on Twitter and through Facebook. In all those cases, anyone coming…
No whaling at all in Iceland this year
According to the usually reliable Reykjavik Grapevine, there will be no whaling at all in Iceland this year – the first time since 2003. Earlier this month it was reported that Fin whaling would not go ahead and now Minke whaling is off the menu too.