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Tag: Natural England
British Wildlife February 2020
This issue of British Wildlife is a cracker – but then, they all are. Miles King on ‘What Legacy for Gove?’ Stephen Harris ‘Stop Vilifying the Urban Fox’ Patrick Barkham ‘What next for HS2?’ Peter Marren ‘Will Natural England Survive?’ And many other good and regular features, but the thing to which I always turn…
Birdwatch – March 2020 – shocking cover
You can imagine how I felt seeing this cover of Birdwatch magazine – it’s a Linnet, and one of those very ugly males at that. Time to turn the pages quickly. Luckily, there are more attractive images inside the magazine. For one thing, there is a spread of ‘local heroes’. Maggie Wilcox was the worthy…
Blanket bog maps
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Dear Natural EnglandThis is a request for information under the FoI/EIR regulations. Please reply within the 20-day maximum allowed for such a straightforward request.This is a follow-up to my requests 4438 (to which NE responded on 27 November 2018) and 4520 (to which NE responded on 18 January 2019) about datasets on deep peat and…
BASC is a hapless bystander
BASC is probably under considerable pressure from its membership to ‘do something’ about Wild Justice’s potential further legal challenges of the general licences and actual legal challenge to gamebird releases. But there’s not a lot they can do except huff and puff. BASC will tell DEFRA (that’ll go down well) that there is no need…
Moorland Association again – questions, questions, questions
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In the same response to DEFRA in which the Moorland Association set out their shopping list for stopping damaging upland areas, they asked DEFRA a number, in fact 14 is the number, of questions about what they call the policy context. The actual policy context for stopping burning peatlands is the damage to blanket bogs…
DEFRA’s very clear explanation
This how DEFRA explains its position on legislation to end burning on deep peat – it should be on all peat, just as the Committee on Climate Change recommended. 54% of pre-existing consents to burn remain – that means that only about a half of landowners have agreed voluntarily to any change. You may remember…
Calder Valley hunger strike update
Statement from Treesponsibility, yesterday evening: Natural England will be conducting a site visit to the moor in the week commencing 24th February and will be analysing the evidence in the week commencing second of March. Treesponsibility will be meeting with Natural England the following week.
Guest blog – Helvellyn’s arctic-alpine plant growers by Peter Barron of John Muir Trust
After 23 years working for the Lake District National Park (LDNP) as a ranger, Pete Barron now works for the John Muir Trust. John Muir Trust is an organisation dedicated to the protection and enhancement of wild land through land ownership and partnerships, environmental education largely through the enormously successful John Muir Award and policy…
Press release – Treesponsibility
Hunger Strike outside Natural England’s Leeds Office Following the devastating flooding in Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd during Storm Ciara, Dongria Kondh, co-ordinator of Treesponsibility, will be going on hunger strike outside Natural England’s Leeds office, at Lateral, 8 City Walk, Leeds LS11 9AT, from 8.00 a.m. on Thursday 20 th February. The hunger strike is…