You might remember a series of blogs I’ve written about wild hacking of Gyr Falcons in two parts of Scotland. Last year SNH licensed the temporary release of 100 Gyr Falcons in Ayrshire and 150 in Moray in the period 1 June to September and with no more than 40 at a time in each…
Tag: Natural England
Natural England to get small funding boost
Natural England is to receive an extra £15m this year – that’s quite good news. There is a very witty photo of Natural England chair, Tony Juniper, looking at chicken feed in the article – priceless! And the money is going to be spent on Natural England’s core duties such as SSSI condition, the planning…
Peregrine by Brian Leecy
This is a great image of one of three young Peregrines from a brood somewhere in the north of England. It’s an image to keep in mind when considering the controversy over Natural England’s licensing of removal of Peregrine chicks from nests for the purposes of ‘falconry’. Previous blogs on this controversy: 16 April: Natural…
Press release – the Beaver Trust
Over 60 Leading Wildlife and Conservation NGOs Support Faster Beaver Restoration More than 60 leading conservation, wildlife and nature organisations have come together to support an appeal by Beaver Trust to speed up the restoration of beavers to Britain. “The loss of beavers from our natural environment has coincided with a dramatic decline of the…
The latest fully-funded crowdfunder for Wild Justice
This week, Wild Justice’s third crowdfunder was fully funded, even in these difficult times. Our first challenge of the Natural England general licences (see the Jay above) was successful and much of the money raised for that has contributed to the Natural Resources Wales challenge (see Jackdaw above). We are awaiting news from the Court…
Press release – Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
We welcome the decision of the court today that ruled against the NFU’s legal challenge of the UK Government over not allowing the badger cull to come to Derbyshire. The NFU legal challenge over the decision by the government not to allow a badger cull in Derbyshire has reached its conclusion today and has ruled…
Guest blog: Emma Turner: a life looking at birds by James Parry
My name is James Parry and I’m a writer based in Norfolk. I focus mostly on art and heritage, but have recently become fascinated by the history of wildlife photography. With co-author Jeremy Greenwood, I’ve just published a biography on Emma Louisa Turner, one of the greatest early pioneers and yet whose life and work…
Guest blog – The Bureaucrats and the Beavers by Derek Gow
Derek Gow is a farmer. A previous guest blog here, about rewilding his farm (and much else besides), Winds of Change 4 February 2019, was one of the most popular posts on this blog in all time. His second guest blog, I must tell you something of the Beaver was about the subject which he…
News: Natural England and the Peregrine chicks – not quite true…
You’ll probably remember the furore over Natural England licensing the taking of 6 Peregrine chicks from the wild in England. Well, when I say remember, it has hardly died down. See my original blog, Gary Wall’s guest blog, a further blog by me and a guest blog by OneKind’s Bob Elliot. We all thought, probably…
Marian Spain confirmed as Natural England CEO
Marian Spain has been appointed as the ‘new’ chief executive of Natural England, taking the post on a permanent basis after serving as interim chief executive since December 2018. Environment Secretary George Eustice said: I want to thank Marian for all her excellent work over the last year. As we focus on setting environmental policy…