This charming and beautifully illustrated story book will give pleasure to children everywhere, writes Lesley Docksey. It will also open their eyes (and with luck, those of parents and siblings) to the wonderful world of bats, and what we can do to look after them.
Twinkle, twinkle ... Bobby the Brown Long-Eared Bat Lesley Docksey | 17th January 2017 Reviews Conservation Books Bats Education Youth bobby-cut.jpg This charming and beautifully illustrated story …
If you love wildlife and enjoy country walks, you've got the makings of a badger patroller, writes Lesley Docksey. You can walk at night if you want to, but daytime observation on country lanes and footpaths is no less important, watching out for the signs of cullers at work. And with the trust and warm friendship that builds among badger patrollers, you'll never be without congenial company.
'You'll never walk alone': highs and lows of badger patrolling against the cull Lesley Docksey | 17th February 2017 Ethical Living Badgers Natural World Farming UK England …
We know the outcome of Defra's latest 'public consultation' on killing badgers long before the results have even been analysed, writes Lesley Docksey. Environment secretary Andrea Leadsom has already promised farmers to extend the cull 'even further' - although it brings no proven benefits. Welcome to the new world of 'alternative facts' that's driving UK government policy.
Putting the 'con' into consultation and the 'fiction' into science: England's badger cull Lesley Docksey | 27th February 2017 News Badgers UK England Politics Health Science Natural World Farming …
The news that the Kimblewick Hunt's hounds are infested with bovine TB has come as a shock to farmers and hunters, writes Lesley Docksey. But it's no surprise to campaigners against the badger cull, who have long complained about poor farm hygiene and the feeding by hunts of disease-ridden 'fallen cattle' carcasses to foxhounds - never mind that the cattle are likely bTB carriers!
Bovine TB found in foxhounds - and nothing to do with badgers! Now what? Lesley Docksey | 9th March 2017 News Badgers Natural World Health Hunting Farming slaughtered fallen stock - hounds …
The 25 TB-infected hounds of the Kimblewick hunt, all put down, remind us that the lot of hunting dogs is not a happy one, writes Lesley Docksey. Unloved and at constant risk of slaughter, they are prone to a host of diseases, from bovine TB to brucellosis, neospora and botulism, which they can pass on to farm stock, humans and other dogs. They deserve better!
Pity the poor hounds! Bovine TB, foxhounds and the biosecurity black hole Lesley Docksey | 15th March 2017 Activism Hunting UK Badgers Natural World Animal Welfare hunt-cut.jpg The 25 TB-infected …
Teresa May's promise to bring back foxhunting has proved one of the most unpopular items in the Tories' election platform. So we should not be surprised at the official silence over the TB-infected hounds in the Kimblewick hunt, writes Lesley Docksey. Nor, given the political power of foxhunting landowners, should we be surprised that officials are shrugging off any idea that bad biosecurity in hunt kennels could possibly have anything to do with TB in cattle.
Foxhunting hounds and bovine TB - why the official silence? Lesley Docksey | 15th May 2017 Comment Hunting Politics Health Badgers Science kimblewick-cut.jpg Teresa May's promise to bring back …
The publication of research into foxhounds and bovine TB is being hidden behind a cover up, with an outbreak in one hunt's pack kept secret for three months before the news leaked out, writes LESLEY DOCKSEY
Foxhounds and bovine TB edges (finally) into the news Lesley Docksey | 23rd June 2017 News Bovine TB BTB Foxhunting Biosecurity Badger Cull cows grass 1015.jpg The publication of research into …
LESLEY DOCKSEY reviews Paul Kingsnorth's book, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth Lesley Docksey | 3rd July 2017 Reviews Paul Kingsnorth Activism Environmentalism Climate Change Small Is Beautiful confessions …
Slowly the incidence of bTB in Cumbria has increased without any real outcry from the agricultural lobby. Why then, at the beginning of this month (August), has all of this information suddenly become news asks LESLEY DOCKSEY
Cumbria's Bovine TB problem - hidden for years but now in the news Lesley Docksey | 25th August 2017 Comment Bovine TB BTB Badger Cull NFU Farming Biosecurity cows grass 1015.jpg Slowly the incidence …