News and comment

01 September 1996
Comments News and comment Perhaps as much as 40% of all British reedbeds has been lost in the last 50 years, and the quality of the remaining 60% has declined dramatically. One clear result of this is the Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris population declining to a mere 20 b...
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News and comment

01 August 1996
Comments News and comment The deliberate placing of poisons in the countryside with die intention of killing wildlife must be one of the most horrendous environmental crimes. A recent report by the Environmental Panel of the Pesticides Advisory Panel indicated that almost one-t...
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News and comment

01 July 1996
Comments News and comment We have commented in the past (Brit. Birds 88: 488) upon the delays associated with the production of a new British Red Data List for birds. Now we have Birds of Conservation Concern in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, which saw the...
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News and comment

01 June 1996
Comments News and comment The Hellenic Ornithological Society is currently revising the Greek Important Bird Areas (IBA) list. Information from foreign birdwatchers is extremely valuable for this work and for bird conservation in general. All birdwatchers who have visited Greec...
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News and comment

01 May 1996
Comments News and comment Whatever your views may be on the ethics of releasing birds for shooting, it is an extremely widespread practice that has implications for the avifauna of widely dispersed geographical areas. We have heard it claimed that, with the UK population of Gre...
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News and comment

01 December 1995
Comments News and comment In July, the Severn Estuary was classified as a Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA) under the EC Birds Directive, and as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. The site, on both the English and the Welsh sides, covers in...
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