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Interview: Dr Alex Lees | Provisioning: Killing with Kindness?

  Charlie Moores in conversation with Dr Alex Lees, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Recently Alex and Dr Jack Shutt published a paper that was widely reported in the mainstream media titled “Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?”  That’s quite a striking […]

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OneKind | Fox hunting foot packs & wildlife crime on Scotland’s public land

“The majority of Scots are opposed to fox hunting, and so, as the public body responsible for promoting Scotland’s land, FLS should amend its fox control policy to reflect public opinion, as it had previously planned to do.” A Freedom of Information request (FOI) submitted by Edinburgh-based wildlife charity OneKind has revealed that Forestry Land […]

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Guest Post | Geronimo: All aboard the express towards scientific reason and compassion.

Guest post by Mark Williams. an independent writer who previously served a decade as a columnist and Editorial Board member of long-running Science magazine.   Geronimo: All aboard the express towards scientific reason and compassion. The plight of Geronimo the alpaca has captured media attention and gained undeniable public interest. The extensive legal battle, recent […]

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Interview | Luke Steele, Wild Moors

  “…not only does [the way the land is managed] not deliver for wildlife, or the environment, or local communities, but it also doesn’t even deliver for the grouse shoots themselves.” Luke Steele, August 2021 Charlie Moores talks with Luke Steele about grouse moors, upland rewilding, and the role peatlands can play in carbon storage. […]

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