Farmland Birds Face a Brighter Future
Scientists have discovered one technique that farmers can adopt to help birds through the long, harsh winter.
Scientists have discovered one technique that farmers can adopt to help birds through the long, harsh winter.
This is an important question. Most of the publicity promoting conservation of red squirrels focuses heavily on the threat from grey squirrels. There is little focus on the ecological importance of red squirrels.
Reductions in population numbers prompted the UK government to pass legislation in 2007, which prioritised the protection of common toads and all UK reptiles.
Wolves, lynx and bears have not been able to survive the persecution of man, but the Scottish wildcat still remains after nearly 500 years of the same pressures.
Capturing a wild animal is traumatic for any species but for social species like orcas and dolphins it is likely to be a horrifying event that may last a life time.
Approximately 33% of the world’s common seal population is found in the British Isles (27,430) and 85% of this population in Scotland.
They may be competing for the same food or they may occupy the same niche. It is also thought that maybe the dolphins use the porpoises to practice fighting and catching prey, but the scientists that study this behaviour are no closer to agreeing on an answer.
By the time hunting was banned (albeit belatedly) in 1978, otters had vanished from everywhere except parts of the West Country and parts of Northern England.
Delivery is often more ecologically defined, so perhaps we’re just stuck with political dimensions until we get the buy-in we need.
Sometimes we will educate school groups that come from urban schools in areas without open grasslands or woodlands, and it is wonderful to see how much they enjoy surroundings they have not experienced before