Dear Mr Pursglove, I wrote to you on 15 September 2020 about three matters of trust. Having received your reply to the last of these three matters recently I’d just like to share my thoughts with you, please. The first matter was that lots of Conservative MPs claimed, in a standard letter sent to hundreds…
Tag: Natural England
Guest blog Curlew Recovery Partnership by Mary Colwell
Mary Colwell is an award-winning radio, TV and internet producer winning 14 awards over the last 10 years, including a Sony Gold in 2009. She is also a radio presenter and feature writer for The Tablet. Mary has written six previous guest blogs here (A Natural History GCSE, 23 November 2012; Shared Planet, 15 January 2015;…
Press release – Wildlife and Countryside Link
Major new campaign to protect nature launches today backed by 50+ nature organisations, plus celebrities and political figures PM called on to lead the way globally on commitments to nature by putting nature promises into law ahead of hosting global talks Public urged to sign petition to show support for legally binding nature protections –…
Press release – the Curlew Recovery Partnership
The Curlew Recovery Partnership is a new, exciting and transformative initiative, bringing together all those with an interest in Curlew conservation, including land managers, farmers, gamekeepers, policymakers and researchers. They are joining forces to help secure the future of one of England’s most iconic and threatened species, the Eurasian Curlew. Urgent action is needed. The…
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…
National Trust press release
National Trust and partners signal hope and healing with blossoming ambitions around the UK Conservation charity and partners choose spring blossom as a symbol of reflection and hope, with plan to plant blossoming tree circles in towns and cities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland over next five years Tree circles and individual blossom tree…
NEWS: No progress on lead ammunition after one year – who’d have guessed?
A year ago the shooting organisations ‘took responsibility’ for phasing out lead ammunition with a fanfare; At the time I wrote: This statement from a bunch of land owning, land managing and shooting organisations is to be welcomed but not praised. After years of hindering progress these ultra-conservative bodies have bowed to the inevitable and…
Don’t trust DEFRA
Do you remember this blog published on 12 September? It featured this question and answer in parliament; I wrote to my MP on this matter in mid September and he passed my concerns on to DEFRA in late September, to which they replied in a letter dated 5 February for which Mr Pursglove wrote a…
Guest blog – Cloak and dibber: the rare plant introduction controversy by Amanda Tuke
Amanda is a nature and environment writer and blogger based in the wilds of suburban south London. She writes mainly about suburban wildflowers, insects and birds on her blog. Her nature writing has appeared in anthologies, on the London Wildlife Trust blog and in Devon Life Magazine. She also blogs on www.freelancenaturewriter.com about her…