From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…. From ‘Wild Justice’…. Wild-life….. Autumn…
by Bernie Bell - 08:38 on 17 August 2023
From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Lydia Millet
As rapid warming, pollution, habitat destruction, and insidious violence against other species speeds up the rate of extinction and edges ecosystems ever-closer to collapse, what voids are left in the tapestry of the living world? In this short story, novelist Lydia Millet imagines the plight of the last remaining Tasmanian tiger—a creature caught in the crosshairs of Australia’s settler narrative, eventually hunted to the point of extinction. As a man seeks the company of the tiger, housed in a failing zoo, he summons the courage to care for what remains amid an overwhelming sorrow for what has been lost.“
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From ‘Wild Justice’….
“Heads up on hedgerows: the awful Department for (yes for!) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is now consulting on hedgerow regulations in England - click here - with a view to weakening penalties for removing or damaging hedgerows and thus reducing hedgerow protection. Such ideas come around every now and again but this consultation is a direct result of Brexit and our exit from the Common Agricultural Policy framework. The closing date for submissions is 20 September. We'll be coming back to this subject well before then.
Badgers in Northern Ireland: we are still waiting for a judgment in our legal challenge against the legality of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs's plans for a Badger cull - the court hearing was on 21 November - click here for details.
And just out this morning: the first of three Guardian podcasts on Hen Harriers, Killing the Skydancer, features Wild Justice's Ruth Tingay - click here
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Wild-life…..
Looking up in Kirkwall again - I’ve often seen things growing from the side of chimney stacks – but – straight out of the top of the chimney !?!
Previously looking up in Kirkwall....
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/03/02/looking-up-in-kirkwall-part-1-victoria-street/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/03/03/looking-up-in-kirkwall-part-2-broad-street/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/03/04/looking-up-in-kirkwall-part-3-albert-street-and-bridge-street/
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Autumn…
First Ink-caps of the season in our neighbour’s lawn….
The vivid blue of Devil’s-Bit Scabious in the meadow…
Why such a horrid name, for such a beautiful flower?
And also in among some Black-Knapweed….
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/01/22/phacelia-tigerlilia-terriblis/
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