Chris Packham calls for Britain to end fast-growing chicken breeds in public procurement, citing animal welfare concerns and government action.

Following North Yorkshire Police’s appeal for information about the recent discovery of a Marsh Harrier with gunshot injuries found in the Westerdale area of the North York Moors National Par…

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking evidence on the environmental and animal health and welfare impacts of gamebird rea...

Earlier this month, researcher, writer and campaigner Guy Shrubsole blogged about his latest examination of reported Pheasants numbers in England. Pheasant (photo by Ronnie Gilbert) As he’s d…

Save Weston Big Wood from development

A train window can reduce a place to scenery: beautiful, fleeting and largely unexplained. A new community arts project is asking the people who live on a railway line connecting Leeds and Morecambe, ...

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

Last month the RSPB announced the successful fledging of six red-listed Montagu’s Harrier chicks from two nests at a secret location in England (see here). The UK’s rarest breeding bird…

Dah! Pret “doing the right thing naturally” again, by making promises, then breaking them, and then moving the deadline 5 years further down the road, in hopes people forget. … “it&#821…

Further to yesterday’s blog, Defra’s Call for Evidence on all aspects of gamebird rearing, releasing and shooting is now open, and will close at 23.59hrs on 1st November 2026. The Call …

Good news! Further to Wednesday’s blog about an imminent call for evidence by Defra about the welfare aspects of gamebird breeding, and confusion about whether this would also include gamebir…

The UK Government is poised to open a public consultation on the welfare implications of the mass breeding of gamebirds, according to an article published by The Guardian this afternoon (see here).…

Today is the official opening day of the Red-legged Partridge (RLP) shooting season in England, Scotland and Wales. An estimated 10 million RLPs are released into the countryside every year, for sh…