Dear Mr Eustice, how long are you going to delay making the right decision on heather burning on peatlands? You are making this government look foolish and evasive by not acting on this matter, particularly when scores of Conservative MPs in England are telling their constituents that the government will act. Let’s have a quick…
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Importance of peatlands for carbon storage
Europe’s peatlands are drying out – due to a combination of factors including human actions. And recent estimates of carbon stored in peatlands are twice as high as previous ones. Here is an accessible and useful account of these two papers with interviews with a range of scientists. Altogether peatlands are even more important than…
Plaid Cymru manifesto
Plaid Cymru seems to be the party of Welsh farmers rather than the party of Wales – or Welsh taxpayers. It favours a continuation of the CAP that keeps 80% of Welsh farmers in business with direct payments. That’s pretty blatant. Plaid supports a regressive form of income support funded by the rest of Wales…
Carbon lady 2
I was really surprised to come across these words of Mrs Thatcher: “We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we…
This blog (3) – the cartoons
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Over the last decade this blog has featured the work of many artists who could be regarded as cartoonists. Ralph Underhill: Ralph has contributed hundreds of cartoons for a regular Saturday morning slot – his last offering, and some words from him, will appear on this blog tomorrow morning. But here are a few to…
Werritty and Westminster
It will be interesting to see how much of the above picture by Mr Carbo will be affected by tomorrow’s statement on Werritty. But BASC and the Countryside Alliance are also predicting that there will be a Westminster Hall debate on grouse shooting in early December. If so, and it’s not listed yet, then this…
News from Scotland
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And a belated piece of news from Scotland – a pair of Hen Harriers, after many years, has finally produced some young in the Angus glens. You can tell this was big news because it appeared in The Courier on 5 August and the Press and Journal on 6 August. You’ll notice that the coverage…
Social distancing from the tax man
It’ll be the beaters who will bear the brunt of any laxity in precautions. Of course, head keepers, shoot managers and owners will keep a list of all involved. If only HMRC could have a look at those lists and check them against tax returns. All those cash-in-hand payments obviously get declared, don’t they?
Let’s hope not
I hope this cartoon by Mr Carbo is unnecessarily pessimistic. It remains to be seen whether the SNP government is prepared to act on wildlife crime and unsustainable moorland management. They have acted on Mountain Hares but if they thought that was enough then they have not read the mood of the Scottish electorate nor…
SNH spin
I’ve been sent this passage from two SNH staff (the versions differ by a few letters and commas – I’ll put that down to transcription errors) – that they say was put out on the internal SNH intranet by their Director of Operations, Nick Halfhide, following the withdrawal by the Scottish Raptor Study Group of…