• Countdown - 14, ecosystem services
    The whole concept of ecosystem services has become much-chattered about in policy circles over the last decade even though the person on the Clapham omnibus would probably glaze over at the mention of...
  • A Forest and Wildlife Service - let's have one please.
    The Government may have bought itself some time whilst the consultation on the future of our forests runs its course. I bet they are tempted to jack it all in and say that they’ll keep everything the...
  • Forests and Wildlife
    The song of the shingle Years of campaigning, meetings, letter-writing e-mailing, more meetings, press interest, talking to people and worry, have come down to this – the start of the Lydd airport...
  • Countdown - 2, ours?
    The UK Overseas Territories are a funny collection of places, mostly islands, which speak volumes about the UK's colonial past. We will go to war to protect their sovereignty but will we protect their...
  • Countdown - 1, guess what?
    The most common subject on this blog has been farming and the decline of farmland birds (and there are lots of extracts in the book of the blog ). Be in no doubt - many farmland birds have declined...