News and comment

01 April 1995
Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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News and comment

01 March 1995
Comments News and comment Strict regulations to improve the energy efficiency of new buildings. The introduction of carbon or energy taxes and VAT on domestic energy use. Subsidies to the nuclear-power industry to be phased out. Minimum efficiency standards to be applied to dom...
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News and comment

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Although the Chinese say they acquired it from Eastern Europe, it appears that a particularly virulent virus that affects Old World Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus spread into Europe from China in about 1984. Within ten years it had probably killed over ...
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News and comment

01 January 1995
Comments News and comment With local government reorganisation in the offing, local, county and regional bird clubs and societies again face the prospect of changes, both minor and major. Every biological group, from fungi, mosses and higher plants to snails, woodlice and mamma...
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News and comment

01 September 1994
Comments News and comment TRAVELLING in the north of England recently, we came across an interesting piece of wet-meadow land. It did not cover a great area, yet a few breeding Eurasian Curlews Nummius arquata were bubbling overhead and obviously had young nearby. An occasional...
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News and comment

01 August 1994
Comments News and comment SERIOUSLY CONCERNED that the seas around our island are suffering from neglect and mismanagement, the RSPB, in launching its Marine Life Campaign, says urgent action is needed to protect the most important areas for wildlife and promote the sustainable...
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News and comment

01 July 1994
Comments News and comment IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED that campaigning works, this must be it. When, in spring 1993, the new President of Cyprus revoked his predecessor's antishooting legislation, Bill Oddie and Derek Moore, two well-known names with a long history of campaigning...
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News and comment

01 June 1994
Comments News and comment WE WERE DISTURBED to learn that no Siberian Cranes Grus leucogeranus appeared at Bharatpur (Uttar Pradesh) in winter 1993/94. The famous Indian wildlife sanctuary has, it seems, lost one of its most famous birds, after a steady period of decline dating...
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