The new UK Government has been painfully slow to appoint a minister for the Natural Environment who will be responsible for fixing pollinator declines and has yet to confirm that...
05/06/2015
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Habitats Directive – Imperfect, but still best in the world
The EU has started a review of the Habitats and Birds Directives. There are profound concerns that the intention of the UK and other national governments is to weaken the...
22/05/2015
Post Election Thoughts and Predictions
As I write the final results are just in and the Conservative Party have a clear, but small, 5 seat majority, which is however 99 more seats than the next...
08/05/2015
Bee’s eye view of 2015 election manifestos
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