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Author Archives: Miles King
Good News for Beavers and Natural Flood Management.
Good news on nature and the environment is pretty thin on the ground these days – we obsess over how bad Brexit is going to be for nature, how Trump is going to destroy the planet and make us pay … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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clean ponds and encouraging bees: Bayer influences public debate on future of farm subsidies
A public survey, paid for by mega Agrichemical industry business Bayer, has found that three quarters of the public supports farmers continuing to receive subsidies. So far the survey has received little publicity, just a couple of articles in the … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, agrochemicals, bees, biodiversity, Brexit, Common Agricultural Policy
Tagged Bayer, Bees, Brexit, farming, nature, neonicotinoids
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Farmland nature is in intensive care
A week has past and I’m still at home. I finished my latest course of antibiotics yesterday (yay) and am drug-free for the first time in 3 weeks, for which I am very thankful. Now I need to start work … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, agrochemicals, Intensive Farming
Tagged Agriculture, Intensive Farming, nature, neonicotinoids, rob yorke
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Owen Paterson is not fit for purpose
It’s probably no exaggeration to say the NHS saved my life last week. I had been having some odd pains for about a month which eventually turned out to be a kidney stone. This is unimaginably painful unless you have … Continue reading
Posted in NHS, Owen Paterson, Randox Laboratories
Tagged NHS, Owen Paterson, Randox, UK 2020
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Jam Tomorrow
Feeling rather sorry for myself for having succumbed to, what for me is a nasty cold (verging on man flu), I was restricted yesterday to watching the Tory Party Conference. What gems and treasures lay strewn across its shiny (though … Continue reading
Time to Put Chemical Farming Indoors by Chris Rose
I’m republishing this (with permission) from Chris Rose’s Three Worlds blog. Time to put Chemical Farming Indoors A current side-effect of the prospect of Brexit is that Britain’s* green, countryside and wildlife groups are in an unusual fever of … Continue reading
Rampisham Down Saved?
There has been some good news about Rampisham Down and its future. The developers British Solar Renewables have resubmitted their proposals to develop a smaller (but still highly profitable) solar farm on arable land adjacent to the SSSI, so that … Continue reading
Posted in Rampisham Down, renewable energy, Solar Farms
Tagged British Solar Renewables, Rampisham Down, Solar Farms
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The Nature of our State
I was looking forward to attending the State of Nature launch, but decided in the end to stay at home at get on with some writing that is now becoming urgent. But despite my noble intentions, I became swept up … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, NFU, RSPB, State of Nature, Uncategorized
Tagged back british farming, NFU, RSPB, State of Nature
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‘Look but don’t pick’ – Wild Mushrooms and the Forestry Commission; Guest blog by Peter Marren
I am delighted to publish this guest post from Peter Marren, conservationist, author and fungi expert. The Forestry Commission has decided to ban the picking of wild fungi in the New Forest. A press release to that effect was … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry Commission, guest blogs, Peter Marren, wild food
Tagged Forestry Commission, fungi collecting, New Forest, Peter Marren
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Blog update
Some of you will have noticed that I have not written anything on here for a little while. We were on holiday in the mountains of Austria and since returning, it has been very busy. I am really pleased to … Continue reading
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