The Inked Naturalist
  • Natural England – Failing to protect the countryside!
  • Buzzards, the final straw!
  • Walking for Turkish Wildlife – Anxiety and Proposed route for week 1
  • Shed Swallows!
  • Walking for Wildlife – A quick update!
  • The Scottish Birdfair – Awesomeness

Natural England – Failing to protect the countryside!

Published May 24, 2013 at 11:16 - No Comments

Regular readers will know of my anger and dismay at the UK Government and the government agency ‘Natural England’ for authorising licenses to remove nests and eggs of Buzzards to ‘protect’ Pheasant shooting interests. You can read my post on this here: http://www.theinkednaturalist.co.uk/buzzards-the-final-straw/ I would also urge you to read Alan Tilmouth’s excellently detailed post [...] IWEBIX Webdesign

Buzzards, the final straw!

Published May 23, 2013 at 13:17 - No Comments

Today I read in the Guardian that a government agency had issues licenses to destroy the eggs and nests of Buzzards to ‘protect’ pheasant shoots. The Buzzard is a protected species; so the fact that licenses have been issued to destroy part of the population of this raptor in order to ‘protect’ captive bred non-native [...]

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