How can I possibly be disappointed with the Glover review when it gives nature top-billing (depending on how you read the report) and contains many useful passages such as those below? In our call for evidence, the message was clear: more than any other single thing, people and organisations agreed that our landscapes should do…
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What to do at the Bird Fair on Friday
09:30 Wild Justice the first six months – Ruth Tingay (Harrier) 11:30 Wild China – Sichuan’s Birds – Tim Melling (Harrier) 13:00 Best days ever: the World Series chaired by Chris Goodie (Events Marquee) OR The Red Kite – Ian Carter and Dan Powell (Authors’ Forum) 13:30 Swifts and biodiversity Edward Meyer (Merlin) 14:00 Wilding…
Guest blog – I must tell you something of the Beaver by Derek Gow
“I must tell you something of the Beaver”. When William Harrison the Canon of Windsor wrote those words in 1577 he presented his description of the beaver he knew in the following fashion “Certes the tail of this beast is like unto a thin whetstone, as the bodie unto a monstrous rat: the beast also…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Scottish Wildlife Trust press release
Legal protection for Scotland’s beavers welcomed by conservation charities The two lead partners in the Scottish Beaver Trial – the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) – welcome the announcement made this morning (23 February) by the Scottish Government that legislation giving beavers legal protection will come into force later…
Scottish Wildlife Trust press release
The Scottish Wildlife Trust is calling for the urgent introduction of legal protection for Scotland’s beavers following the discovery of a dead beaver on a wildlife reserve in Tayside. Examination of the female beaver shows that it is likely to have died from an infection after being shot in the chest. Jonny Hughes, Chief Executive,…
Guest blog – Winds of Change by Derek Gow
Derek Gow is a farmer – you can see from the image opposite he is a serious farmer. Here he writes about the future he has chosen for his farm. Winds of change For those who don’t farm it’s difficult to understand the mentality of those that do. While James Reebanks in his excellent book…
NE news
I hear that staff morale under the new interim Natural England CEO, Marian Spain, is rising. That’s good to hear. It might rise a little more if the report in Saturday’s The Times, that Tony Juniper might be NE’s new Chair, is true. It’s a difficult job but Tony might well be the person to…
Wildlife NGOs call for protected status for Scottish Beavers.
Adult European Beaver at Knapdale. Photo: Steve Gardner A number of leading Scottish wildlife charities and individuals with an interest in conservation have signed an open letter to the First Minister, published in The Guardian today (Friday 21 December) calling for a firm date to be set on granting European Protected Species status to beavers…
Oscar Dewhurst – Beaver
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Oscar writes: while I was walking around Stanley Park in Vancouver, I got chatting to another photographer who mentioned that I had a good chance of seeing Beavers in one of the small pools towards the entrance. Later that evening, after a short wait, sure enough a family emerged from their den and treated me…