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Peter Shirley
Flowers on the Verge
Environment
With the loss of nearly all of our flowery meadows over the last few decades roadside verges have become very important refuges for wildflowers.
Chemicals in pesticides are adversely affecting many species
Retail & Consumer
The current ban on pesticides containing nicotine-like chemicals, or neonicotinoids has now taken on a wider significance.
Threat to Nature Conservation
Retail & Consumer
Decades of progress in the protection of wildlife may be derailed by a review of the European Union's nature conservation legislation.
The effect of artificial light on nature
Retail & Consumer
The world's artificial light has profound, but generally unquantified, effects on wildlife, especially airborne wildlife such as birds, bats and insects.
Enjoy a daily free concert with the Dawn Chorus
Retail & Consumer
Nature's bounty takes many forms. In spring one of those is the exuberant and mellifluous outpouring of bird song in the few hours after sunrise.
West Bromwich neighbourhood nature
Retail & Consumer
Late afternoons have always echoed to the 'chuck, chuck, chuck' calls of the jackdaws as they fly low over the gardens, returning from their days foraging, to their cosy chimneys to roost.
Can you enjoy local greenspace?
Retail & Consumer
The natural world is fundamental to our existence, and underpins all economic activity.
Beavers living on a Devon river are allowed to stay
Retail & Consumer
Natural England has decreed that the beavers living on a Devon river can stay.
Peter Shirley: Nature is nothing if not impatient
Retail & Consumer
This year the very mild weather leading up to New Year meant that many flowers were blooming over Christmas, and there was early bud burst on some shrubs and trees.
National plan to reduce the grey squirrel population
Retail & Consumer
Policy and Action the Government is trying once more to reduce the grey squirrel population to protect both trees and red squirrels.
Peter Shirley: Evergreen plants for the festive period
Retail & Consumer
Peter Shirley takes us through the evergreen plants that have played a part in winter celebrations for thousands of years.
Peter Shirley: The funding roundabout in West Midlands parks
Retail & Consumer
When reduced budgets are imposed it is natural for councils to look first at cutting such discretionary activities, in order to protect those they are legally required to do.
Improvements to the international protection for wildlife
Retail & Consumer
In distant Quito in Ecuador governments, including ours through the EU, have been meeting to improve international protection for wildlife.
Clipping the RSPB's Wings
Retail & Consumer
The Sawley Hall shoot in Yorkshire claims that the RSPB does not apply enough of its substantial income to owning and managing nature reserves
The 40,000 different insects in Britain help support all other life on earth
Retail & Consumer
The 40,000 different insects and their close relatives in Britain play a crucial role in supporting all other life on earth, including us
Peter Shirley: Politicians obsessed with economy don't think about our wildlife
Retail & Consumer
We need healthy ecosystems and thriving populations of animals, insects and birds to provide food, clean air and water and an amenable climate.
Peter Shirley: Britain's butterflies count
Retail & Consumer
Our butterflies seem to be recovering following the very wet summer of 2012, but long-term fortunes are still not good
Peter Shirley: Politicians challenged to protect nature
Opinion
Ahead of the General Election, two of the nation's leading nature conservation bodies are calling for all parties to commit to a Nature and Wellbeing Act - Peter Shirley examines the issues.
Peter Shirley: Ministers' parks and open spaces tax proposal
Retail & Consumer
Ministers have suggested that people living near parks, and whose houses increase in value because of this, should pay extra tax to contribute to the upkeep of the parks.
Peter Shirley looks into urban trees in Birmingham and the Black Country
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham and the Black Country are famous for their street trees.
Owen Paterson's view of the environmental movement
Retail & Consumer
Former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson described parts of the environmental movement as 'the green blob'.
Mixed progress for Midlands nature
Retail & Consumer
Progress and local successes here and there mask a continuing and worrying decline in the variety and abundance of plants, animals and birds.
Precaution or Profit
Retail & Consumer
For a host of reasons both wild bees and domesticated honey bees continue to decline, both here and in other parts of the world.
Still much to learn about the common Blackbird
Retail & Consumer
The Blackbird is very much a European species, although there are populations in parts of China and elsewhere in Asia.
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