Sentences with phrase «rspb rainham»

A 5 - star luxury wildlife hotel is easier to make than you think and, chances are, you'll have most of the material lying around your home and garden (follow the RSPB's guide here) or piling up rock and rotting wood will work just as well.

This landscape, jointly managed by the National Trust and RSPB, is special because of the diverse wildlife that thrives here.

Mereshead RSPB Reserve — Mersehead is a wildlife haven, supporting huge numbers of birds, flowering plants and invertebrates.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 260 (1359) 245 - 249 doi: 10.1098 / rspb.1995.0087

He have won several awards in still photography competitions with BBC television, RSPB, Scottish Wildlife and the Scottish Ornithologist Club.

My photographs have appeared in various books, Birding World, Birdwatch, the national press and many local birding publications, as well as information panels for the RSPB and other nature reserves.

The charities — the Blue Cross, RSPB and RSPCA — appealed.

RSPB, Friends of the Earth & Client Earth v. Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 2309 (Admin), 15 September 2017, Dove J — judgment here

RSPB Scotland went to the UK's highest court in London after exhausting all its legal options in Scotland in July, following a 30 - month battle to halt the projects.

The RSPB has already delayed the project by two and a half years, during which time it could have displaced approximately one million tonnes of CO2, making a very significant contribution to the Scottish and UK governments» energy and climate targets.»

Anne McCall, director of RSPB Scotland, said the charity is «extremely disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision.

With the upset caused bird charity RSPB Scotland's long - running legal challenge against 2.3 GW of wind projects off Scotland now seemingly over, an air of renewed confidence is returning to the industry with a pipeline of technologically diverse projects under construction, and several more looking to enter the UK's 2019 contract - for - difference auction.

A controversial Scottish offshore wind farm that was almost derailed by a fierce legal battle with the RSPB has been bought by EDF.

Scientists at University of York and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have identified seven non-native species of birds that are now established in the UK, and are increasingly associated with reserves and protected nature areas.

In the case of ruddy ducks, the RSPB supports eradication — typically by hunting.

When the UK's most prominent bird conservation charity, the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), decided to install a 100m high wind turbine at their headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire, there was a predictable outcry from anti-wind lobbying groups.

Luckily, those bats are only likely to be in - flight around dawn and dusk at wind speeds between 2 and 5 meters per second — so Ecotricity and RSPB implemented a mitigation plan by which the turbine is shut off for half an hour before and after dusk, whenever wind speeds are below 7 meters per second.

RSPB: We must build more bird - chopping eco cruifixes James Delingpole Breitbart 26 May 2016 Britain -LSB-...]

In the past few years have also received support from civil society organisations, including WWF - UK, RSPB, and 10 other conservation organisations for Common Cause for Nature.

These eight are the usual suspects — Green Alliance, Friends of the Earth, the Woodland Trust, WWF, the Wildlife Trusts, the RSPB, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and Greenpeace.

The RSPB have recently backed wind farms as long as they are properly sited, and recommended a spatial planning approach as used elsewhere in the EU.

The rspb is britains premier bird organisation.

The rspb have found themselves on the horns of a dilemma though in the on off plans for a Severn barrage which would supply 5 % of the uk energy needs.

perhaps golden plovers will decline more in line with the models now that the RSPB backs wind turbines

«The latest move follows a lengthy planning application process which included consultations with the local community, English Nature, the RSPB and the local and district council.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281 (1779): 20133128 doi: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.3128.

The neo-medieval policy of picking winners — or rather losers — creates a salivating lobby for subsidies (even the RSPB takes money from wind farms to shut it up about their eagle killing).

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

Mark remembers that, years ago, an RSPB officer wrote the following about the Edinbane project: «they (red grouse) have been known to collide with turbine structures and have shown population declines associated with windfarm developments elsewhere» (5).

Hence the new study by researchers from the RSPB and BTO, which was just hailed by The Guardian in these terms: «Windfarms do not cause long - term damage to bird populations, study finds» (1).

The RSPB — supposed guardians of Britain's birdlife — makes hundreds of thousands of pounds in partnership with the wind industry, despite the fact that wind turbines around the world kill as many as 22 million birds every year, including rare and protected species such as America's national bird the Bald Eagle, Whooping Cranes and Hen Harriers.

The BBC has to go to the RSPB press office for that:

That problem — * exasperated sigh * — is this: if the RSPB is really concerned about the potential disturbance to wildlife of a few noisy lorries and drill rigs (which, let's not forget, are only up for a short period, after which they are replaced by a silent extraction device called a Christmas tree), how come it's so cheerfully complacent about the epic numbers of rare birds and protected bats which are sliced and diced (or, in the case of bats, barotraumatised — i.e. made to implode) by the industrial wind turbines which the RSPB not only champions but from which it benefits financially.

The BBC's wholly uncritical «news» story (which is actually just an excuse to flag up its perennial Springwatch tv series, which this year features «nature does you good» as one of its themes) draws on «research» by Natural England, the RSPB, journalists, celebrities and various other experts in the field to prove its point.

«This project combines critical forest and wildlife conservation work with a raft of social and community benefits, from sustainable cocoa production to the provision of saving and lending schemes,» commented Emily Woodfield, Head of Tropical Forest Landscapes Unit, RSPB.

We are delighted to announce that Gola Rainforest Conservation, comprising partners the Government of Sierra Leone, the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone and the RSPB - one of the world's foremost conservation charities - have partnered exclusively with climate and development experts ClimateCare, to offer the opportunity to purchase carbon credits from its unique Gola REDD + Project in Sierra Leone.

«We believe the involvement of the RSPB as one of the world's foremost conservation organisations will appeal to organisations with a strong sense of environmental and social integrity, as well as those whose products or services impact on the world's forests.»

Started in 2012, the Project is being managed by the Gola Rainforest Conservation not - for - profit company, founded by three partner organisations — the Government of Sierra Leone, the RSPB and The Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL) and local communities.

The RSPB have been discussing these issues with the developers in an effort to reduce both the layout and scale of the wind turbines.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, 3911 - 3919, doi: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1159.

This proposed wind farm project near to the planned Trump golf resort has also drawn criticism from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Britain, who raised concerns that the wind turbines could harm rare birds in the area like the red - throated diver and common scoters.

The BBC make the link between the decline and global warming by asking the RSPB — which is about as «scientific» as asking someone from the oil industry for their opinion.

According to Anon, the RSPB do research too.

The question is what does Oxfam, the RSPB, Greenpeace, WWF, Christian Aid, Cafod and other groups have to lose if Mann Made Global Warming ™ is no longer a priority?

A study undertaken on behalf (or by) of the RSPB attributing the decline to global warming would have to have been completed exceptionally quickly.

Now the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has issued a formal objection to the plans on the grounds that local bird populations could be hurt: Several EU Protected Species Could Be Disturbed From the RSPB statement:

Scenic walks along the coastline find the remains of old stone houses, seals basking on rocks and beaches, although the highlight would be the RSPB Seabird Centre.

There are two RSPB reserves here — South Stack Cliffs and Valley Wetlands — and four Welsh National Nature Reserves.

Recently we returned to the North Yorkshire Moors for a holiday and while we were there we visited the Saltholme RSPB Centre.

A tricky place to find but worth every effort, the RSPB Troup Head nature reserve is open at all times and is best visited between April and September.