Every evening, at 9pm, another video is posted about the Malta Massacre on Migration. The three so far have been very moving. What will tonight’s video reveal? I wonder what our hunters think of the situation in Malta? They seem quite quiet on the subject…
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Support Malta’s conservationists
Malta is a member of the EU but seems to think that it can break and bend the rules of the club by allowing spring hunting of migrant birds that pass across this Mediterranean island on their way north. Birds of all sorts are killed at this time of year. The other evening a party…
Sunday book review – Nature Conservation in Europe by Graham Tucker (ed).
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This is not a cheap book, nor is it a small book, but it is a very useful and impressive book. It consists of fairly standardised accounts of the approaches to and the state of nature conservation across 26 countries, 25 of which are still members of the European Union (Luxembourg and Malta…
Guest blog – Do you remember the Barn Owl? by Barbara Lorna Hudson
Barbara Lorna Hudson grew up on a farm in Cornwall, where there was a ruined farmhouse with barn owls in residence. After studying at Newnham College, Cambridge and the Universities of Chicago and Newcastle, she worked as a social worker for several years before becoming a social work lecturer at the London School of Economics…
Where are we in the league table?
How many birds are killed by ‘hunters’ in each km2 of the UK each year, and how does that compare with other European countries? Have you ever wondered? Neither had I until a reader of this blog put me in touch with the data with which one can work it out. Well it depends what…
Entry B by Callum MacGregor
Isolation I press my nose against the pane in wonder. Sparrows and starlings squabble over seeds, and a blackbird sings. I can half-hear it, muffled by the barrier between us. My eyes slip down the lawn, past the trees, through the borders, to the back fence, and beyond. And beyond… And beyond the fence… well,…
Badgers and Turtle Doves
I had a great time at the Badger Trust conference on Saturday – and in talking to many delegates on Friday evening too. There were some old friends there, including some readers of this blog, and one person who had delivered lots of postcards in the Calder Valley promoting Chris Packham’s and Wild Justice’s e-petition….
Chris Packham CBE
Chris Packham outside the BBC standing under George Orwell’s very apt quote. Photo credit: somebody who was walking past at the time. Chris Packham has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Congratulations Chris! It is highly significant that this award is for services to nature conservation, not for broadcasting. Of course…
Is the EU good for wildlife? Hell, yes!
Has the EU been good for wildlife or not? My view, based on 25 years of working for the RSPB and so being closer than most people to the evidence and practice behind this question is a definitive ‘Yes, hell yes!’. My view is based on evidence (that’s coming soon in this post) but I…
Tim Melling – Lesser Whitethroat
Tim writes: Not your classic full-on bird portrait but this is the kind of view you tend to get of Lesser Whitethroat. This was really difficult to capture through a tiny gap in the foliage. They usually skulk about in bushes unless you catch them singing in the spring. This one was collecting insects to…