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Here is a selection (every 10th comment, listed chronologically (earliest at top of list)) of the free-text comments in answer to ‘Your opportunity to give feedback of any kind on my blog or anything else you like’. Excellent, well informed. Always very interesting and refreshing to read what needs to be said unencumbered by…
Round up
Cairngorms National Park Authority say grouse shooters may kill too many Mountain Hares, kill too many raptors illegally and are industrialising the hills. BTO Science round up – I received the very first of these by email recently and, although I haven’t read it all yet, what I have dipped into looks very good. Sign…
Round up
Here are some things that caught my eye: Wild Travel magazine has folded – speaking as a subscriber and former columnist I’m sorry about that should the GB be GB’s national bird? Telegraph letters snares around stink-pit on Peak District grouse moor catch pet dog -Buxton Advertiser the Big Give is matching your donation to…
Vaccination of badgers
The good thing about this strange statement from the NFU is that they are wanting more vaccination of badgers. One of the strange things is that they seem to think that it is the job of wildlife charities to provide it rather than their own industry or government. This represents, it appears, quite a lurch…
A bit of a round up
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very nice blog by Findlay Wilde about coming runner up in the Animal Hero awards. I’m quite jealous that Findlay has had his photo taken with Brian May, but then Bohemian Rhapsody was at No 1 when I heard I had a place at Cambridge. Well done to Dominik Reynolds who won the award…
Round up
Just a few things that might interest you: the photo above shows an ancient god and goddess – it’s nice to see Athena joining in on behalf of Hen Harriers and thank you to Ron Kinrade for the photo from the Naples Archeological Museum. Athena was (and still is, I guess), of course, quite keen…
Catfield Fen – minded to be sensible
This may be the end of a long story, provided the Environment Agency hold their nerve – you can help them, see below. I have previously blogged about Catfield Fen on 30 May 2012, 22 August 2012, 10 September 2012, 30 September 2012, 6 August 2013 and 12 May 2014. It’s all about abstraction licences…
Round up
Yesterday, the Wildlife Trusts awarded Simon Barnes (pictured right) their Rothschild Medal. this is a richly deserved honour in recognition of Simon’s campaigning journalism and beautiful writing – it probably deserves a mention in The Times. This year Simon has been closely associated with two issues that will be familiar to regular readers of…
People’s Climate March – London 21 September 2014
Emma Thompson leads off the People’s Climate March in London on Sunday afternoon. Vivienne Westwood and Peter Gabriel also attended. There are reports of 40,000 people joining the march but it felt like a smaller event than The Wave five years ago to me. There wasn’t a very obvious NGO presence – the occasional Panda…