Unmasking Hyperbole: The Truth About UK Mammal Extinction Claims
According to a number of conservation organisations, 25% of the UK's terrestrial mammals are in danger of extinction, but can that really be true?
Ian Coghill
I'm a game shooter, wildfowler and fisherman, lifelong conservationist and author of ‘Moorland Matters.’ I was the longest serving chairman of GWCT and am a former chairman of AimToSustain.
Bovine TB, Badgers, Brian May and the BBC
The recent documentary on the relationship between badgers and the spread of bovine tuberculosis raises lots of questions, but not necessarily the ones the makers or broadcaster intended
Rewilding: a Great Tool but a Dangerous Religion
Rewilding is swiftly becoming a religion - a belief system with little evidence to support its claims - but is this a sane way to manage our landscapes?
The RSPB's Intimate Ties to the UK's Water Firms
If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon. The RSPB has an odd approach to polluters. If you are big enough and rich enough it may not be a deal breaker to pour untreated sewage into rivers and lakes.
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Reintroducing the big stuff. A panacea or a distraction?
Forget management - go for an imagined golden age
National Parks Exposed: Wildlife Decline and Cultural Heritage Loss
The Campaign for National Parks believes that our National Parks are failing. I agree, but not for the same reasons...
The Conservation Industry's Silence on Salmon Farming Is Deafening
The ecological impacts of salmon farming are widely known, so why are the big beasts of the conservation industry happy to support it?
Protecting Game Shooting: Our Collective and Individual Duty
As the Scouts used to say 'Be prepared'. Game shooting may well be in for a bumpy ride. What can we do individually and collectively to prepare for what may be more challenging times?
The State of Nature: Are we really that bad?
Failing 'State of Nature', bottom of the biodiversity league, most biodiversity depleted, failing 30x30. Open any paper and someone from the conservation industry is saying how bad we are. What on earth does it all mean?
Predator Control: What the Conservation Industry REALLY Thinks
We are cursed with a conservation industry who are so terrified that they might lose potential income, that they risk facilitating the end of legal predator control. Such an outcome must be resisted
Give Us the Money or The Curlew Gets It!
How do the big players in the conservation industry get vast amounts of taxpayers' money? Why are the people handing out enormous grants not interested in the fact that the organisations pleading poverty are in reality making eye-watering profits?
Beyond the Teletubbies: Debunking Rod Liddle's grouse moor rant
The survival of the management systems that have kept our moorlands and their wildlife safe for centuries is under attack from people who don't see their lack of understanding as any barrier to forcing their prejudices onto an entire landscape