• The long road to COP15: The countdown is on!
    (C) Mike Muzurakis, IISD ENB Photographer Today’s blog is written by Fiona Dobson, International Policy Officer, and Georgina Chandler, Senior International Policy Officer, in reaction to the announcement...
  • Going the distance!
    Lots of people are really passionate about nature and the environment, whether they are wanting to enjoy it, study it or protect it. Raptor persecution remains a highly emotive issue and Yorkshireman...
  • Waving the flag – from a careful distance
    O Canada! My home and native land! True patriot love, in all thy son’s command! Heather Ducharme That’s the first line the national anthem of my mother country. However, sitting in the RSPB climate...
  • 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...