Blogs

An EU r ed kite Action Plan has been written by the RSPB (on behalf of BirdLife International ) with input from raptor experts across the continent. It fingers poisoning as the main reason for big declines in the populations in Spain, France and Germany...

Last week the Marine Bill received Royal Assent and metamorphosed into a Marine Act. The legislation applies to UK waters and inshore waters around England and Wales so there is further to go with devolved legislation in Northern Ireland and Scotland...

Egyptian cotton sheets with a thread count of at least 250; peanut M&M's (green only); white candles; white roses; white cushions; twelve packets of Monster Munch (pickled onion flavour only); 120 bath-sized towels. It reads like a roll call of...

We have been following the progress of the Whitson SSSI public inquiry which, in short, was hearing an appeal into a refusal to give retrospective planning permission for an aerodrome on Upfield Farm on the Gwent Levels in South Wales. We have now heard...

By deploying bird scaring lines (tori lines) from trawl vessels, seabirds are prevented from colliding dangerously, and often fatally with the trawl cables. To assess the performance of the tori lines in the Namibian fishery we are carrying out trials...

Copenhagen or Bust? Many of you will have heard recent reports that hopes are fading for completion of a new global climate treaty at the UN summit in Copenhagen, starting just 21 days from now. You might even be wondering, why should I bother campaigning...

The RSPB bought Hope Farm ten years ago. Our aim was to manage a bog-standard arable farm (in Cambridgeshire) as a commercial farm but at the same time to increase its bird numbers. And it has worked! I'm glad it has worked because it felt as though...

We were dismayed this week to hear that the Romanian Senate of Parliament has thrown out a draft law that would have protected the irreplaceable natural environment of the Danube Delta. The Danube Delta is one of the world’s largest wetlands, with...

Back in July, we set sail from the port of Coquimbo in Chile with the challenge of studying mitigation measure design and the associated reduction of seabird bycatch. Historically, bycatch has been particularly high on the vessel that I have now joined...

Back on 28 September I promised that you would be amongst the first to know the outcome of our negotiations aimed at getting agreement on how the Highways Agency will safeguard stone curlews as part of their proposal to dual the A11. Here's a link...