Bee decline is the number one environmental concern of the UK public and we are in the midst of a slew of new and shocking evidence about the impact of...
24/04/2015
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Pesticide report was Defra’s dodgy dossier
A reappraisal of a Government scientific study has raised serious concerns about the scientific integrity of the pro-neonicotinoid UK Government – were civil servants distorting science so that it supported...
30/03/2015
Brazilian Wandering Spider in Bananas – Fact or Fiction
The internet today has been thrumming with a news story about a lady from Bristol, some bananas from Tesco, and a deadly spider from Costa Rica. But what is the...
14/03/2015
Walk Wild Toryglen
As Spring starts to take hold in Glasgow, the Toryglen meadow project comes to an end, but something new is bursting forth from it like a phoenix from the flame!...
02/03/2015
A Close Shave for Fineshade
Last week I attended the meeting of East Northamptonshire Council at which the councillors considered a planning application from Forest Holidays – a commercial off-shoot of the Forestry Commission –...
27/02/2015
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Three threatened wildlife sites – all brownfields – no coincidence
In the last few months, a flurry of wildlife sites have been put in peril by inappropriate developments – Lodge Hill in Kent, Rampisham Down in Dorset and Radford Quarry...
13/02/2015
The Criminal Injustice Bill
The House of Lords has been providing some resistance, but already our legal system appears to have been badly damaged. Fears that the independence of the judiciary was under threat...
12/12/2014
Meadow maintenance and willow fencing
On 20th November, I accompanied Urban Roots’ volunteers to continue maintenance of the meadow site at Malls Mire Community Woodland. The work to be done on the meadow remains high,...
03/12/2014
NIAs – are we Improving Nature?
Nature Improvement Areas were introduced by the Government to fix wildlife in 12 areas of England. Two years into a three-year project, how are they shaping up? Are they improving...
28/11/2014
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To Kill or Not to Kill That is the Question 3
Part 3 – I had a good reason We all do it, we all kill bugs, but what are the ethics of doing so. In ‘Part 1 – The Value...
14/11/2014