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Farmers invited to get involved in Big Bird Count By David G Scott
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Updated: 11:48, 13 January 2021
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Members of the Caithness farming community are invited to get involved in a country-wide bird conservation initiative next month.
Last year more than 1500 farmers took part across the UK in the Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC), the most since it was launched in 2014 by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), and more than 120 bird species were recorded.
In Scotland 81 species were recorded across 81,362 acres. Nineteen of these were red-listed, with the five most commonly seen species being blackbird, pheasant, robin, blue tit and carrion crow.
Europe’s Grey Partridge Population Plummets
94% of the European grey partridge population has been lost since 1980, according to a remarkable new bird atlas.
The European Breeding Bird Atlas – EBBA2, one of the most ambitious biodiversity mapping projects ever undertaken, documents changes in breeding distribution of all European bird species. The atlas, published in December, confirms that this key species has suffered one of the steepest declines of all farmland bird species.
Grey Partridges
Dr Francis Buner, senior conservation scientist at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), who co-authored the grey partridge species account in the EBBA2, commented: “The dramatic decline of the grey partridge across its entire Western European range should act as a wake-up call to us all. Europe’s farmland biodiversity is under severe threat with unprecedented declines and even complete losses to wildlife in all corners of the EU and the UK. Europe’s Common A
The Big Farmland Bird Count is winging its way you - Dr Dave Parish
Last year more than 1,500 farmers across Britain overcame challenging February conditions to make the 2020 Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) the biggest across the UK since it was launched in 2014.
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The five most commonly seen farmland species in Scotland last year were the blackbird (above), pheasant, robin, blue tit and carrion crow
EIAs inadequate, factually incorrect; joint study slams clearances to Goa road, rail power projects
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Villas emerging as villains in Goa s tourism revival?. Image Source: IANS News
Panaji, Jan 7 : Thirty environmentalists across India have slammed hasty environment clearances given to three controversial central government projects in the protected forest areas in and around Goa s Mollem villages, stating that environment impact assessment (reports) for these projects are considerably weak and riddled with inadequacies.
In their study, the environmentalists who are associated with top institutes like the National Institute of Advanced Studies and the Azim Premji University in Bengaluru, Wildlife Conservation Trust in Mumbai, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, etc, have also called for an in-depth investigation into the cumulative impact on the protected areas as a result of the highway expan