Standing up for Nature
It seems that Fin Whales off the coast of Iceland will have at least a year’s reprieve according to this story in The Reykjavik Grapevine. This is excellent news. I would take with a pinch of salt the explanation given by the sole Iceland commercial whaler about the licence arriving too late, although I have…
After the equivalent of a thorough service, an MoT and a partial respray this blog returns tomorrow and will have picked up full speed by next week. Thank you for all the messages saying you were missing it. And no, the website hadn’t been hacked, shot at or had dead crows stuffed inside it. Fingers…
This blog is going to have a break to get some work done to it. At the moment it does not look how it should look, it has lost some of the functionality it should have and it lacks an accessible privacy policy. For all those reasons, and because this is an opportunity to get…
Sorry, there is no blog here this morning. My connection to the blog server didn’t work throughout most of yesterday and then I was out in the evening and out of the house fairly early this morning. Normal service will resume as soon as possible. Apologies to anyone else who couldn’t read this blog yesterday…
You would have to be an addict of this blog with a spectacularly good memory to recall the tiny part that this blog played in a victory to save parts of the Norfolk Broads which have high levels of protection under EU wildlife laws from being damaged by water abstraction. The last blog here on…
Strines Moor on Monday. Walshaw Moor on Monday From Upper Midhope looking across to Shaw Brook and Fenny Common, Peak District on Monday. Walshaw Moor on Tuesday
Burning of moorland, particularly the newly-invented ‘restoration burning’ of blanket bogs will feature on Countryfile this evening. The observations of burning of blanket bogs featured on this blog formed part of the dossier that was used by Guy Shrubsole and others and which will, I’m guessing, feature in the programme. The blurb for the programme…
Continued from last Saturday We saw plenty more wildlife during the rest of our stay but after those two days in the north of the island, the recce had served its purpose. I already knew I’d be coming back. I spent the rest of the time getting to know the place as thoroughly as I…
The news that whaling may occur in Icelandic waters from 2019-24 is very disappointing. I’m not suggesting that a 15-minute chat with the Icelandic Prime Minister is likely to have made that much difference but it did feel, when I was in Iceland in September, that the movement was in the right direction. We’ll have…
Natural England has issued a position statement on burning of blanket bogs – the position is basically ‘Don’t!’. We understand that the serial blanket bog burners in the uplands are less than chuffed by actually being told what they can and can’t do. We can’t see any comment from the Moorland Association on this subject…