Yesterday I didn’t go to the Game Fair but the Today programme did. And Farming Today were there too. Farming Today repeated C(W)TG’s Andrew Gilruth’s inability to answer a question here after about 15 minutes. Did you notice how Andrew claimed that grouse moors had been designated because they were teeming with wildlife? He’s such…
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Saturday cartoon – how the media work by Ralph Underhill
Last week when I did a short piece on the Today programme I was thinking something similar to Ralph – along the lines of wildlife stories are the fluffy ones. The media coverage of environmental issues seems to have declined in quality over recent years and that must be partly because there are fewer and…
Guest Blog – Why should we care about Jon Snow? by Ralph Underhill
Ralph Underhill worked on planning casework and water policy at the RSPB for seven years, before joining the Public Interest Research Centre where has worked on the Common Cause for Nature report which wss published yesterday. He also draws cartoons for this website. Why should…
Bird Fair – Day 1
It’s actually quite hard work enjoying yourself at the Bird Fair – I don’t mean that you can’t enjoy yourself, just that it is a bit knackering. It doesn’t quite have the buzz of the Cheltenham Festival for me but today the period between 0930 and 1730 just whizzed by. I have this strategy of…
Captive audience at RSPB Arne
Today I’ll be at the Bird Fair (come up and say hello – and perhaps buy a copy of Blogging for Nature from me) but last Thursday I was still on holiday in Dorset having not seen white-beaked dolphin and not seen Adonis blue butterfly. What would I not see next? Arne had already provided…