• Big majority for sea eagle reintroduction
    An online poll in the Guardian, following Natural England's announcement that they had been forced to withdraw from the Suffolk sea eagle project for funding reasons, ended last night. A large majority...
  • 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...
  • Countdown - 7, peat
    In maybe 10 years time, the use of peat in gardens should become as frowned upon as blowing cigarette smoke into the faces of children. It will become mainstream that the use of the precious natural resources...
  • Countdown - 20, the cormorant
    Where do you go for your information? If you put 'cormorants the facts' into a well-known search engine you will probably find your way to this useful document on the Salmon and Trout Association website...