Hedge cutting advice

Guest blog by Roisin Kearney, RSPB NI Assistant Conservation Officer. Throughout the spring and summer months, birds are busy building nests and raising chicks. We receive many queries about...
Flail cutting of hedges

At present any body can set themselves up as a 'Farm Hedge Maintenance Co.' ,with absolutely no knowledge about this vital wildlife asset ,which they can, and do, virtually destroy. The ecology of the...
The State of Nature in Wales: our response

Mae fersiwn Gymraeg ar gael yma . RSPB Cymru Director, Katie-jo Luxton, sets out why we should all be shouting about the crisis facing nature, but why she also has hope for the future. I spent last...
Positive response

Mid-October saw me giving two presentations to skippers and industry representatives about how to prevent albatross deaths in the South African hake trawl fishery. The venue was Cape Town and four fishing...
THE LATEST CUT

I am not talking about a new haircut, but rather the hay and silage harvest which has been taking place up and down the Hebrides since May. Farmers spend most of their summer fretting about when their...