20/12/2011

   Do this, or the Otter gets it? - will you Step up for Nature this Christmas? 

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 our 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.

( If you have any problems with the links here they are:
Campaign page: http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/campaignwithus/current/stepup.aspx
Find your MP http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/
RSPB Press release: http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/298476-rspb-shock-at-chancellors-attack-on-wildlife-rules- )

Thanks
Paul St Pierre, Conservation Officer, RSPB, Manor Offices, Marazion, TR17 OEF
Tel: 01736 711952
Email: Paul.StPierre@rspb.org.uk
www.rspb.org.uk
 

07/05/2011

A New Logo for the Society

This is our new logo. It is – we hope you will agree – a modern, fresh, clean look for the Society. It shows our iconic and unmistakeable bird, the Chough, against a blue Cornish sky and replaces an older, black and white version of the bird. Designed by a Cornwall-based graphic artist, the new logo will be used from today on this website, our quarterly newsletter Palores and a host of other things from membership cards to signage at our reserves, publicity material to car stickers.

 

17/03/2011
Success for Cornish Bird Ringers

Mark Grantham writes,

The 2010 online ringing report has recently been released by the BTO, which includes a breakdown by county.
http://blx1.bto.org/ring/countyrec/results2010/ringGBCO2010.htm


The national total topped 1 million birds for the first time ever, and the Cornish total of 7,231 is also possibly the highest ever. Cornwall ringed more Green Sandpipers than any other county, and was in the top five counties for Peregrine, Great Black-backed Gull, Yellow-browed Warbler and Firecrest.


The online report also lists plenty of interesting recoveries, and the most notable Cornish ones that haven’t been broadcast already include:
· Swedish-ringed Kestrel killed by a train in Saltash in October
· Robin ringed in Cumbria (in July) found dead in a building in Gwithian in December
· Finnish-ringed Redwing found long dead in Penzance in March
· Blackcap from Nanjizal found dead in France in May
· Firecrest ringed on Lundy (in September 2009) found long dead in December
· Swedish-ringed Chaffinch found dead in Bodmin in February
· Chaffinch ringed in Shrewsbury (in January) hit glass (but survived) near Townsend in October
· Greenfinch from Sennen found dead in Kent in March

 See also          http://blx1.bto.org/ring/countyrec/results2010/recGBCO2010.htm

 

26/02/2011
As you all know Loveny Reserve is a CBWPS managed part of Colliford Lake, and is the at the northern end of the eastern finger of the reservoir. The access point is on the road from Jamaica Inn to Dozmary Pool at grid ref: SX 191754 through a locked metal gate and down a concrete track. The combination of the lock can be found on the members page. Please make sure you lock the gate when you have passed through it. 

    

If you want the password to the members area please mail webmaster@cbwps.org.uk  giving your full name. Your name will be checked against the members list and the password mailed back to you. Entry to this area is through one of the buttons on the banner at the top of the page. 20/07/09

 

 

 Why not try the CBWPS Forum? This is the place for members to share bird sightings and  other relevant information. You will also find more photographs and files relating to the society's activities. Guidelines and access are to be found on the Forum Page or through the Forum button on the Banner heading. You will need to be a member of the forum group for access to some areas. Start by finding the 'Join this Group' button when you have entered the Forum  

 

A  For Sale page has been established  for members to advertise their unwanted Natural History related items as well as  items they are seeking. Try it Here

  

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Field Meetings - Volunteers needed

 

 We run regular field meetings, often in conjunction with the RSPB Cornwall Group.  We are looking for a few extra volunteers to lead an occasional meeting in their area.  You don't need to be an expert, just reasonably competent at identifying common birds.  If you would like to help, please e-mail here.

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Contacts (click to e-mail):

secretary chairman vice-chairman treasurer conservation palores membership webmaster recorder