Foot-and-mouth and birdwatching

01 March 2001
Comments Editorials Foot-and-mouth is the latest in a series of body blows to British farming in recent years. The outbreak of this disease has, however, had ramifications the effects of which extend far beyond those people directly involved with the livestock industry. T...
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Reviews

01 March 2001
Comments Reviews MIGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION OF WADERS: research and conservation on north Asian, African and European flyways International Wader Studies 10. 1998. 500 pages. ISSN 1354-9944. Paperback, £35.00. Copies available from International Wader St...
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News and Comment

01 March 2001
Comments News and comment RSPB Scotland is pressing the Scottish Parliament and Executive to promote large-scale wetlands as a basis for f lood prevention, as well as improving the incentives in agri-environment schemes for positive floodplain management. With predictions that ...
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Letters

01 March 2001
Comments Letters I was not terribly reassured by any of the comments of Mark Avery (Brit Birds 93: 500) in reply to my criticism of the pilot Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis cull and the rationale behind it (93: 394-396). Rather disturbingly, the RSPB's Director of Conse...
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Notes

01 March 2001
Comments Notes On 25th January 1996, on a brief visit to Fareham, Hampshire, I stopped to look at the mudflats. From my car, I saw a number of plastic bags that contained what looked like kitchen waste. The larger bags held several smaller polythene bags. ...
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