Today efforts to get the UK on track to a sustainable energy future took a blow, with news that Ayrshire Power was submitting plans to the Scottish Government for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston. Lodge your objection to the proposal now...

During the first ten years, the RSPB has achieved its core objective for Hope Farm, showing that increasing farmland bird populations could be achieved whilst running a profitable conventional arable farm. In fact, the results have far exceeded expectations...

I recently rediscovered a book, Highland Birds by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson , which I first read on a family holiday in Scotland in 1972. Then it had a big impact on me and I wondered whether it would again. It did. Back then, information was thin...

My blogs of Monday and Tuesday reported and commented on the BTO study which investigated the potential role of magpies, grey squirrels, sparrowhawks and other predators in influencing songbird population levels. In short, this massive study found very...

The RSPB is pleased that the wheels of the United Nations are moving again to deliver an international climate deal to carry on the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 and better suit the needs of developing countries. Like other environment organisations, we...