Sussex Ornithological Society has arranged a series of free online webinars for the winter months and Surrey Bird Club members are welcome to attend. The next one of these is entitled :

Raptor persecution and its impact: RSPB Wildlife Crime Unit

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 7 pm

The RSPB team are keen to reach out to birders on how to act and what to do if they come across something ‘suspicious’ in the field. Case studies will be mentioned from Southern England during the presentation.

Further details can be found at:

Sussex Ornithological Society’s online webinars | Eventbrite

29/01/2023

Biodiversity is hard to measure, poorly understood, mobile, mostly invisible and inherently complex. The last COP9 agreement, from 2010, was an abject failure, where not a single target was reached. A key focus of the recent Montreal global biodiversity conference, COP15 (held jointly with Kunming, China), was ‘30×30’: protecting at least 30% of land and sea by 2030.

Just before Christmas, the meeting secured an historic global framework (The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework) to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030.  This was apparently forced through by the Chinese president, ignoring objections from some African states who wanted … Read more