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Birding News from Cornwall

Another New Look…………

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We have had varying comments regarding the new look website, mostly positive but also plenty of constructive critisism! Unfortunately, the one previous to the one you see now was extremely high maintainance and took a lot of looking after so we have decided to revert back to a newer version of our original Cornwall Birding theme. We hope the changes have not inconvenienced any of you too much and also hope you like this version. We still have plenty of work to do to get it up to the standards that you have come to expect of Cornwall Birding so please bare with us as we go through this period of updating. The changes as expected came at a cost and we funded them through sales of our superb 2010 Rare and Scarce Bird Report. So thankyou to those who have purchased one and if you haven’t, but use this website regularly, then please think about buying one as you will be helping greatly towards the cost of keeping this website free, keeping the CBA membership free and contributing towards the printing costs of the 2011 Report which is currently being written ready for the end of september. See the Annual Report tab above for further details.

Thanks, Paul and Ash

Murder in the Bay………….

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St Ives fishermen may be making the papers again once photographs of todays incidents make the news! A witness took photographs of a fisherman removing hundreds of dead Auks, Shags and other seabirds from a net of the coast between Manns Head and Clodgy Point today. Other birds were just left to die in another nearby net. The RSPB and Police have been notified.

St Ives Fishing Boat hauls in the illegal catch! (number of boat removed)

 

Cornwall Birding – Rare and Scarce Bird Report 2010 ON SALE NOW!

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 THE CORNWALL BIRDING RARE AND SCARCE BIRD REPORT 2010 -**ON SALE NOW** – £12 including postage and packing. Sales are going really well and we have a limited run, so get your copy NOW! This will hopefully be the first of many Annual reports. Please use the Contacts and Submissions  page to order. Also available NOW at South West Optics, Truro and Books Plus, Penzance.

Sponsored by HANDYKAM.COM and Rare Bird Alert.

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Environment is a Barrier to Economic Growth! Apparently………..

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The Chancellor, George Osborne, has launched an unprecedented attack on the environment in his Autumn Statement which was perhaps the most environmentally hostile for a generation. Put plainly, he thinks the environment is a barrier to economic growth and jobs: “we will make sure that gold plating of EU rules on things like Habitats aren’t placing ridiculous costs on British businesses”. Examples wheeled out for Cornwall in his speech failed to mention that studies found less damaging but financially viable options were available, local sustainable industries would be damaged and the public money required would have been better spent elsewhere if you wanted to create jobs for Cornwall.

The Habitats Regulations are one of our most important pieces of wildlife legislation. They protect 220 habitats, a thousand species (including, yes, otters), and many of the most special places we all love and value – from the chalk of Salisbury Plain, the heaths of Purbeck, East Devon and the Lizard, the uplands of Dartmoor, Exmoor, and Bodmin, the waterbird spectacles of the Tamar, Exe, Severn and Poole Harbour, to the seabirds on the Isles of Scilly. The weakening of environmental legislation will only make those special places poorer for wildlife, affecting the quality of your life.

So will you Step up for Nature this Christmas?

Here are 3 things you can do now:

1: Write to your MP – read the RSPB campaign page to see what to say, and find your MP here.

2: Write / email your local paper or radio station – let them know you care.

3: Get your friends, family, work colleagues, everyone you know to do nos 1 and 2.

More information can be found on the RSPB press release here.