Two crane chicks have hatched in Gloucestershire which, if they survive, will become the first wild-born cranes in the west country in four centuries. One chick was born at the Slimbridge wetland centre last May but died just days later due, experts believe, to the cold and wet weather in the early summer. Cranes reestablished […]
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POLL: Should the UK Government be allowed to cull birds?
A controversial cull of thousands of gulls in the UK will go ahead after a legal challenge by conservationists failed. The RSPB last week asked the high court to stop a cull of lesser black-backed gulls and herring gulls in Lancashire which had been sanctioned by environment secretary, Owen Paterson, at the request of aerospace […]