The club received the following email from Dan Turner (Coordinator, Northeast England Beached Bird Surveys Group):
"Following the recent easterly winds off northeast England it has come to my attention that there are several beached bird corpses, including fulmars. I wish to store as many of the fulmar corpses as possible please. Therefore thought you may be able to prompt your members to collect any found – for the international northern fulmar project. If your members contact me – perhaps we can arrange a handover of any unfortunate fulmars.
I instigated the Northeast England Beached Bird Surveys Group in 2003, initially to participate in the ‘Save the North Sea’ fulmar project. In the past 15 years our NEBBS group has found almost 100 beached fulmar corpses suitable for laboratory analysis, plus many other things besides.
Please see our web page for some more detail: http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/activities/conservation-research/beached-birds/ and check out the various links there."
"Rewilding - the restoration of nature to an uncultivated state; far-flung theory or practical reality? Join us at the spectacular Hardwick Hall Hotel for the first in a series of events focused on rewilding our natural environment.
In this introductory session, we’ll explain an overview of the rewards of rewilding, as well as explore the legal, scientific and practical underpinnings of the practice with leading industry experts, including:
Professor Ian Convery from the University of Cumbria, who will introduce rewilding and touch on ‘The Lifescape Project’ in collaboration with the highly respected law firm Clifford Chance, as well as his work with the 'IUCN Taskforce on Rewilding';
Sally Ann Hawkins, a Conservation Biology PhD student at the University of Cumbria, who is also working on 'The Lifescape Project';
Adam Eagle, a Litigator at Clifford Chance with a broad practice including property and environmental work, who will set out the legal context for rewilding in the UK;
Dr Steve Carver from the University of Leeds and Dr Mark Fisher of the Wildland Research Institute, who will deliver our keynote talk on the scientific investigation of rewilding and their respective work;
Jonathan Pounder, Rural Estate Delivery Advisor with Landmarc and experienced Ecologist, who, through working with the MoD to provide support services for environmental compliance, habitat management and protected species, will deliver an insight into how such work links with rewilding.
Places are limited, so be sure to register your details now to secure your place.
- DBC
- Mar 8, 2018
"This is the first of what is intended to be an occasional series of electronic newsletters to be
circulated, perhaps twice a year, to BTO members and to other participants in BTO Projects
(including BirdTrack and Garden BirdWatch) living in the BTO Durham Region..."
Please download the PDF to read in full.
