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Yesterday the great and the good of the farming industry packed into a chilly barn on the border of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to get very enthusiastic about saving wildlife. There was enthusiastic talk of changing the way our countryside is farmed...

I've checked again for new data today (Friday 6th) but there's none available yet. It's looking like it'll become available tomorrow - as that's 7 days into November. Unfortunately I don't have access to a computer at the weekend...

One of my favourite things at this time of year is beginning to plan what I’m going to grow next year. Usually it is a case of having been tempted by something I have seen growing this year, and here is one that has got me all excited and is right...

If you've ever set out to see a kingfisher , the chances are you've returned home disappointed. I hopped on London's Northern Line to Gospel Oak to work at our Date with Nature on Hampstead Heath with no expectations for the day what so ever...

Today's Times regards today's launch of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment as a last chance for English farmers to adopt green measures - wow! That sounds a bit harsh really - given the good work by so many farmers already! But Peter Kendall...

Back in the spring and summer we were lobbying for set-aside to be replaced with a mandatory set of actions for farmers to implement to benefit wildlife. That didn't happen, instead Defra went for a voluntary option for farmers. The NFU's and...

I found these two extracts of a speech by President Kennedy on 10 June 1963: Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit...

Wildlife crime has been in the news again this week with a special report in the Independent on Sunday and news of a terrible breeding season for English hen harriers. Last year the RSPB received 1,206 reports of potential offences against wild birds...

Now that the clocks have changed, it can be frustrating that it's dark before I go home in the evening. This means I can't pop into Island Mere Hide or down to Bittern Hide to check for roosting harriers, bitterns or starlings - unless I go at...

I'm told that the Government Chief Scientist, Prof John Bedddington , was interviewed on BBC TV last night and on the shelf behind him was a copy of State of the UK's Birds - a joint publication by RSPB, BTO , WWT , CCW , NE , NIEA , SNH and JNCC...