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This article was in yesterday’s Farmer’s Weekly. As there is a partial paywall on that website now, I am copying in the article so you don’t have to go the FW website to read it. Stop using our fields as … Continue reading
Dog Wars 2: the battle for Rodden Meadow
who could have done that? It wasn’t my dog….. Following Sunday’s dog blog, as if on cue, this story pops up, albeit in the Mail. A retired haulier and beef farmer bought a 29 acre meadow in the middle of Frome, … Continue reading
Gone to the Dogs
I grew up with dogs. We had a succession of Welsh collies. Kirsty was a family pet before I was born, but sadly died young. Meg accompanied me through childhood into teenage years – I will always remember going up … Continue reading
Posted in agricultural pests, bees, dogs, ecosystem services, eutrophication, Neonicotinoids, Uncategorized, wolves
Tagged Bee, dogs, eutrophication, heathlands, Wolves
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Boris talks up HS2, pretends he doesnt “get” Ancient Woodland.
French High Speed Railway By VincentdeMorteau (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Last week Mayor of London Boris Johnson had an extended and I have to say very interesting interview published in Total Politics magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Woodland, Boris Johnson, HS2, Uncategorized
Tagged Ancient Woodland, ancient woodlands, Boris Johnson, High Speed 2, HS2, Nimbys, Woodland Trust
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High Speed Wild: The case for a new Wild Landscape through England
HS2 is about to be given a big push forwards tomorrow when it will receive its second reading – and former Environment shadow Mary Creagh, now Shadow Transport SoS is supporting it. She will be eyeing a cabinet position after … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Woodland, biodiversity, HS2, rewilding
Tagged climate change, HS2, re-wilding
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A political blog: the unholy alliance between UKIP and the Marxist Libertarians
the cheeky chappy Last week I forced myself to watch a Channel 4 documentary “Nigel Farage: who are you?”, made by self-styled “fashionable left-wing film-maker turned wicked libertarian” Martin Durkin. He has previously made such edifying and entertaining pieces … Continue reading
Mapping local greenspace: will it help protect these green lungs?
moody greenspace (photo Miles King) As some of you may have guessed, I’m not the biggest fan of Policy Exchange. This is the think tank the Tories love most – its ex-treasurer is the new Natural England chair, Andrew Sells, … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity offsetting, greenspace, housing, Policy Exchange
Tagged biodiversity offsetting, greenspace, Policy Exchange
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Feed the World….. sugar till we are all obese.
We are told that Fat is the new normal and this is undoubtedly true. It’s another example of shifting baseline syndrome, also known as the “frog in the saucepan“. I have noticed my own waistline expand over the years … Continue reading
A Lenten Story: The Gamekeeper’s Gibbet, Biodiversity Onsetting and Confirmation Bias
spot the badger The Gamekeeper’s Gibbet Not so long ago, a walk in the country would entail this scene – a gamekeeper’s gibbet. Vermin would be presented by the estate gamekeeper, neatly strung on fences or hung from trees, as … Continue reading
Posted in agricultural pests, animism, badgers, biodiversity offsetting, blood sports, Defra, Owen Paterson
Tagged badgers, biodiversity offsetting, Owen Paterson
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Humans as Deicides – we killed our original gods and we have forgotten them
Straight Tusked Elephant I had been thinking about writing about this again and George Monbiot spurred me to write this, following another eloquent, passionate but depressing counsel of despair in the guardian yesterday. George argued that hominims had been driving … Continue reading
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