Solar deal powers up RSPB nature reserves The RSPB, the country’s largest nature conservation charity, has used a new finance deal with Triodos Bank to help install renewable energy projects across its nature reserves. A loan of £710,000 has supported the installation of over 700 solar panels at seven nature reserves, including Minsmere, The Lodge…
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What the RSPB says about the General Licences
Have a look at this by RSPB Conservation Director, Martin Harper. Here are some quotes: Like everyone, I was surprised by Natural England’s decision to revoke the General Licence at such short notice after the legal proceedings by Wild Justice. The following media and online frenzy has thrown up so much misinformation and inaccuracies that it…
Magpies and the RSPB
There is a lot made of the fact that the RSPB carries out lethal control of Carrion Crows, formerly under the revoked General Licence GL04, on a very small proportion of RSPB nature reserves (15 out of 218). Because this is a highly emotive issue the RSPB is attacked by those who wish the RSPB…
RSPB bird song heading up the charts
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RSPB press release: NATURE FOR #1 Pure birdsong soars into UK charts Let Nature Sing from The RSPB enters the midweek chart at number 11 Buy/ stream now here Music history looks set to be made this week as the first ever release of pure birdsong soars into the UK charts. Let Nature Sing by…
RSPB press release
Over 40 million birds have vanished from UK skies in just 50 years, it is time to Let Nature Sing The RSPB is releasing a track of pure bird song to raise awareness of the shocking loss of over 40 million birds from the UK in just 50 years. ‘Let Nature Sing’ features the song…
Let Nature Sing – the new campaign from RSPB
Over the next two years the RSPB hopes that its Let Nature Sing campaign will bring the music of the wild back into our lives, to remind people of the sounds we love from nature and how we would miss them if they were gone. I’m already missing them quite a lot. RSPB has joined…
BGBW results – RSPB press release
Song Thrush. Photo: Chris Gomersall/RSPB images RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch results show mixed picture for UK’s garden birds House sparrow remains at the top of the Big Garden Birdwatch rankings with almost 1.2 million sightings throughout the weekend but for many species fewer birds were recorded than in 2018. Almost half a million people across…
RSPB press release
Tristan albatross Diomedea dabbenena, adult courtship dance, Gough Island, January. Andy Schofield (rspb-images.com) Island restoration would help slow global rate of extinction Introduced invasive species have been responsible for hundreds of extinctions, the majority of these on islands. Targeting 169 islands – including 20 in the UK’s Overseas Territories – as a priority for restoration…
RSPB press release
Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus, caught in a net, Cyprus. Photo: RSPB images Illegal songbird trapping in Cyprus at ten year low on UK military base Latest report suggests a continued decline in the number of birds being illegally killed on British military base in Cyprus. The continued reduction is due in large part to work…
RSPB press release – another missing Hen Harrier
Vulcan – another missing Hen Harrier, presumed dead. A young male hen harrier has disappeared in suspicious circumstances in Wiltshire and is believed most likely to be dead. The harrier, named Vulcan, was one of five chicks to fledge from a nest in Northumberland last summer. He was fitted with a satellite tag as part…