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I spent Tuesday night being inspired by a talk from Dr Azzam Alwash, Chair of one of our Birdlife International Partners, Nature Iraq . He spoke about his ten year campaign to restore the 5,000 square miles of Mesopotamian Marshes which had previously been drained under Saddam Hussein's regime. It's...

Last November, the Chancellor described hard-won legal protections for our most precious wildlife sites, as a “ridiculous cost on British business”. I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Let's just say he was having a bad day. I think there is another Chancellor waiting...

We are still reeling from the Chancellor's economic statement . I summed up our mood in an interview I gave to Farming Today (about 8 minutes in). We can just about live with a review of the Habitats Regulations . As in the 2006 Davidson review, we think that the regulations will stand up to scrutiny...

The Chancellor, George Osborne, spoke to the Institute of Directors this week. He cannot have been reading his speech very carefully - he seems to have missed a word. He said: "On planning, one of the great obstacles to growth that no government has had the courage to tackle, we are now shifting...