• Cyprus bird trapping – good news at last
    After over a decade of increases, the good news is that the number of songbirds trapped and killed in the UK Sovereign Base on Cyprus fell by more than 70% in 2017: from 88 0,000 to 260,000 songbirds...
  • A good digest of Brexit-related news for a Friday with a spotlight on the future of farming
    There are a lot of developments in environmental policy to digest at the moment, both Brexit-flavoured or of a more traditional taste. You will be forgiven if you are struggling to keep up. To help make...
  • Return to Cyprus
    RSPB volunteer, Phil Hughes, has just returned from helping BirdLife Cyprus in the grim task of monitoring the illegal bird trapping that blights the country. Our work to protect the natural world is...
  • A spotlight on Scotland
    Having just spent a glorious week in the Highlands, it seems very timely to turn the blog spotlight on some of the brilliant project work going on across Scotland . Because there's so much going on, I...
  • More bad news from Cyprus
    The illegal trapping and hunting of millions of birds around the Mediterranean has been well publicised in recent years. A 2015 BirdLife International scientific review, 'The Killing' , estimated an annual...