You may have got an envelope recently in which was a letter telling you about the 2021 Census (Scotland is having a census in 2022). One of the questions is about your religion (although what my religious beliefs have to do with anyone else I am not sure – but you don’t have to answer…
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Vjosa Forever
Albania must still be one of the least known countries in Europe – I’ve never been there, I’ve never really considered going there. Have a look at this short (7minute) video and you will see some of what you and I have been missing – and may well lose the chance to see at all….
Guest blog – Eco-impacts of badger culling, by Tom Langton
Tom Langton is an ecological consultant who has helped small organisations and individuals find free and low cost ecological advice and representation for legal cases over the last 15 years. These include many civil and criminal trials, with action for horseshoe bats in the Forest of Dean, damselflies, fish and rivers in New Forest and…
An interesting/dull and important/unimportant paper published today
This paper was published today and sometime soon it will be available free online, but at the moment the ‘free’ bit hasn’t kicked in. I have a copy of the paper sent to me by the BTO, and also by Natural England, so I’ve read it all (but don’t have access to the supplementary material…
Future of this blog
In about two months’ time this blog will downsize considerably, for at least several months but quite possibly for ever. I’ve said this several times but, perfectly reasonably, not everyone reads every post here every day! I’ve been told I won’t do this, that I shouldn’t do this and that I mustn’t do this, but…
Guest blog – Boris and the Badgers by Dominic Dyer
Dominic Dyer is Policy Advisor for the Born Free Foundation, author of Badgered to Death ‘The People and Politics of the Badger Cull’ and was CEO of the Badger Trust from 2013 to 2020. Twitter: domdyer70 Boris, the badgers and the politics of culling Sir David King undermines the Randomised Badger Culling Trial Over the…
Good news – Sandringham supports White-tailed Eagle releases on their doorstep, perhaps
The Daily Telegraph has an exclusive where they say that the Sandringham Estate is supporting the release of White-tailed Eagles next door at Wild Ken Hill. This is good news if true. The statement from the estate given to the Telegraph doesn’t actually say that they support the W-t Eagle reintroduction – it says they…
Humiliation?
James Hansen makes good points here but I think he’s wrong to think that the UK government, this government, or its Prime Minister, will feel humiliated by … well, actually, by almost anything. We seem now to live in a world where many politicians feel no shame about acting in contradiction to their words, or…
8 million pageviews
Yesterday this blog passed another milestone – 8 million pageviews since 21 April 2011. That first post was unexceptional, but one has to start somewhere, and its title, Don’t let them get away with it, might well have become a watchword for this blog. It took me couple of months before I got Google Analytics…
January a busy month
At 95,000+ pageviews, January 2021` was 17% busier than the previous January and the second busiest (just failing to be first) for the 10 Januaries this blog has existed. Just a reminder, when we get to April this blog is going to disappear, at least for months, quite possibly for ever. But I am getting…