• Supplies for the Winter
    When you are looking at your feathery visitors to your garden enjoying there fat balls have ever wondered how your local friendly RSPB staff get through the winter as well? Well, for the Public Affairs...
  • A bold and brilliant vision for Cambridgeshire's Block Fen
    Some good news brought to us in a guest blog by our Conservation Officer Amy Crossley At the heart of the Fens lies the Ouse Washes – a wetland wonder that has survived the extensive historic drainage...
  • Public forests should stay in public hands
    So the Independent Panel on Forestry report has been published. The stand out headline is that public forests should remain in public hands. But, the report goes further by calling for the public forest...
  • Public steps up for buzzards
    We have just heard that the Richard Benyon - the Wildlife Minister - has decided to drop proposals to licence the destruction of buzzard nests and to bring adult buzzards into captivity around shooting...
  • Whitson SSSI public inquiry
    For the first time, since this blog started, the RSPB will be involved in a public inquiry. The case revolves around a planning permission issued by Newport City Council in the late 1990s allowing the...