Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault | Conservation
The song of the skylark has filled the minds of poets for centuries, from Shelley’s “merry spirit” to Wordsworth’s “ethereal minstrel,” but there is little poetry in the Colchester furor over the bird. Campaigners for the protection of the Middlewick Ranges, a former Ministry of Defence firing range in Essex, are furious that part of […]