As part of UK Invasive Species Week 2021, we bring you – thanks to our friends at the Angling Trust – this collection of photos taken at the launch of a national campaign to tackle the highly invasive floating pennywort from blighting Britain’s rivers and lakes. Floating pennywort – first found in the wild in……
UK Invasive Species Week floating pennywort campaign picture special — The Invasives Blog
French fishing boats fight before the port of St Helier to cause to notice what they see as uncalled for limitations on their capacity to fish in UK waters after Brexit.
Jersey, Channel Islands — KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH
Climate Network News reports Wales has pledged to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050. So it plans a Welsh national forest with thousands more trees. A year ago the first minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, announced a big step forward towards a more verdant and accessible country: a scheme for a Welsh national forest. Inspired by the […]
Wales goes green with Welsh national forest plan — Natural History Wanderings
A record number of beavers will be delivered by the Wildlife Trusts into Britain this year as the enterprising warm blooded creature is reestablished to five provinces where they have been terminated for many years. The well known rat, whose dams have been appeared to help many types of creepy crawlies, creatures of land and […]
A large number of beavers to be released in Britain — KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH
Western Environmental Law News Release Today, the Trump administration will announce its decision to prematurely remove endangered species protections for wolves in the lower 48 states, in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The most recent data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its state partners show an estimated 4,400 wolves inhabit […]
Wolves: Groups will challenge Trump admin removal of endangered species protections in lower 48 — Natural History Wanderings
In a new series of articles, we’ll be taking a look at the best places to watch wildlife in North East England. By no means comprehensive but hopefully informative, these posts are intended to provide inspiration on where to visit in the North East to observe and enjoy nature, as well as detailing some of […]
Where to watch wildlife in the North East: Silverlink Biodiversity Park — James Common
The BBC reported that Hen Harriers are close to extinction in England as the only two nesting pairs in the country failed to breed. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said this is the first time since the 1960’s that the harriers have not produced even one chick. The RSPB blamed private […]
English Hen Harriers Face Extinction Risk — Natural History Wanderings
The BBC reports The wildlife charity the RSPB says it has been “overrun” by reports of birds of prey being illegally killed since the lockdown started six weeks ago. Species of raptors (birds of prey) that had been targeted include hen harriers, peregrine falcons, red kites, goshawks, buzzards and a barn owl. The wildlife charity […]
via ‘Surge’ in illegal bird of prey killings since lockdown — Natural History Wanderings
Further to the publication of the Werritty Review on grouse moor management this morning (here), the Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) has joined other groups in calling for the Scottish Government to stop procrastinating and get on with sorting out the practices that ‘have a serious impact on our natural environment’. There’s a strong and resolute message emerging […]
