Saving special places

Woodlands Working for Wildlife by Jacqui Weir

Carl Cornish — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:40:43 GMT

This is a guest blog by Jacqui Weir about her work on woodland management. A lack of woodland management has been identified as a key driver for many woodland bird declines and this partnership project is delivering work at a landscape scale approach...(read more)

Simon Marsh MBE

Andre Farrar — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:00:00 GMT

I know that Simon’s colleagues and many friends here at the RSPB will be delighted at the news that he has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and will join me in offering our warmest congratulations. Simon is a regular...(read more)

Finding nature around Morecambe Bay

Jenny Wain — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:28:00 GMT

Tania Crockett, Morecambe Bay Community Engagement Officer for Leighton Moss and Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands Nature Improvement Area provides our guest blog today... Just over a week ago, I was joined by over 200 people at the Arnside Bioblitz...(read more)

Time for a Sustainable future for the Severn Estuary

Andre Farrar — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:58:12 GMT

Every few years, for decades, proposals to build a tidal power generating barrage across the Severn Estuary have achieved prominence. The idea of capturing some of the massive energy of the tide (the second highest in the world – behind North America’s...(read more)

Things that go churr in the night

Carl Cornish — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:50:00 GMT

Following on from a dawn chorus walk and Redstart Ramble, last Saturday was a nightjar walk at Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve. I met Nottinghamshire County Council ranger Claire Watson and 20 people in the car park at 9 pm and we headed off into...(read more)

Saving special places with faith communities

Simon Marsh — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:00:00 GMT

What do house sparrows in London, vultures in Mumbai, white-headed ducks in Turkey and yellow-eared parrots in Columbia have in common? Apart from the obvious - that they’re all birds in trouble which the RSPB or its partners in BirdLife International...(read more)

A blog about curlews, shelduck and a prosperous Scotland

david anderson — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:53:00 GMT

Hello from a very sunny and warm Skinflats (I have worked in this office for nine months now and that is the first time I have been able to say that!). The good weather means it is the perfect time to get out and about, and what better way to spend a...(read more)

Will you be Han Solo to my Princess Leia?

Andre Farrar — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:52:00 GMT

Just listened to the addresses given by our speakers at the launch of State of Nature – my selection for line of the evening goes to Plantlife’s chief executive Victoria Chester who asked biodiversity Minister, Richard Benyon the question...(read more)

An evening with friends – and a focus on the future

Andre Farrar — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:06:17 GMT

Guests are gathering to launch State of Nature here at the Natural History Museum. Twenty five organisations have come together carry out a stock take of our natural world – you can read more about it here . This evening we are honoured to...(read more)

Blogging from the temple of biological variety

Andre Farrar — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:28:18 GMT

Here I am at the Natural History Museum located glamorously behind the cloakroom awaiting the start of the launch event of State of Nature. Speakers are rehearsing their lines and we are all looking forward to the arrival of Sir David Attenborough. ...(read more)

State of Nature

Andre Farrar — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:19:48 GMT

Your Saving Special Places blog will be off to London shortly and I will blogging from the launch event of State of Nature at the Natural History Museum. Here’s some links from today’s media coverage the Guardian , BBC Online and the Daily...(read more)

An Early Start....

david anderson — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:53:00 GMT

“So we’re probably looking at a 5:30am start......”, cue silence at my end of the phone. Toby, one of RSPB’s conservation officers for the Inner Forth area, had agreed to help me out with a breeding bird survey in Bo’ness...(read more)

Butterflies and bobbins around Morecambe Bay

Jenny Wain — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:23:12 GMT

Spring is slowly taking hold around Morecambe Bay, but as temperatures drop and the rain blows in, you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Even on a rainy day there are some special places to explore with signs of spring and hopes for a sunny day...(read more)

History should tell us something

Andre Farrar — Sat, 11 May 2013 15:58:48 GMT

Roughly once a decade airport planners cast their eyes east of London into the marshes and wetlands of the Thames Estuary. In some sort of grotesque bring-forward diary the arguments for (largely its not somewhere else) and the arguments against (communities...(read more)

Redstart Ramble

Carl Cornish — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:30:56 GMT

Sherwood Forest is a special place with a wealth of special wildlife. The redstart is an iconic bird of Sherwood Forest – more widespread and numerous in upland areas, it is on the edge of its eastern range in the Midlands here in Sherwood Forest...(read more)