Christmas can be a real blast, but it can also be hell on the planet.  There are the tonnes of wrapping paper dumped in landfills (or worse), countless food miles clocked up and greenhouse gases emitted, and a whole tonne of plastic junk gifts that you’ll hide in the back of the cupboard.  Here’s a […]

Well, well, well, as I predicted in my pre-election blog (OK, so it was hardly long odds or a wild bet) we have a new government.  The question is now, what’s in it for conservation? At the moment, we’re waiting to see who gets the ministerial posts of most interest to us here at Forest […]

 Just three weeks till the election and while the polls are tightening up a bit I probably wouldn’t be a making wildly speculative punt in predicting that they might be rearranging the furniture in the Beehive soon. That thought has been exercising the minds of environmental types lately, in particular thinking about what a change […]