Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Adviser to Government - The JNCC is the UK Government's wildlife adviser, undertaking national and international conservation work on behalf of the three country nature conservation agencies. Includes press releases and publications.
DEFRA: Wildlife and Countryside Directorate - Details on how it enhances opportunity in rural areas, improves enjoyment of the countryside, and conserves and manages wildlife resources.
DEFRA: PAW Wildlife Law Publications - Online and hardcopy publications about UK law regarding wildlife and the enforcement of these laws. From the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime.
Basking Shark Proposal - Proposal by the UK Government to include the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
CITES - Information on the UK Government's position on The Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Guide to Wildlife Law Enforcement in the UK - Compiled and edited by Michael Bradley Taylor QPM, the guide covers a range of topics from native birds to poaching, cruelty, trapping and poisoning.
Minimising Disturbance to Cetaceans - UK Government guidelines on minimising the disturbance to cetaceans from whale watching and recreational activities. [pdf]
PAW Bulletins - Copies of the bi-annual publication from the Partnership for Action against Wildlife Crime.
White-Headed Duck Task Force - Recommendations for action within the UK to conserve the globally threatened White-headed duck.
The Zoos Forum - Established as part of the UK Government's proposals to modernise British zoos and ensure that captive wild animals are properly cared for into the next century.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Wildlife and Conservation "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Wildlife and Conservation
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Wildlife and Conservation I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Wildlife and Conservation
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Wildlife and Conservation They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Wildlife and Conservation
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Wildlife and Conservation By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Wildlife and Conservation
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Wildlife and Conservation We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Wildlife and Conservation
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Wildlife and Conservation Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Wildlife and Conservation
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Wildlife and Conservation He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Wildlife and Conservation
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Wildlife and Conservation There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Wildlife and Conservation
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Wildlife and Conservation No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Wildlife and Conservation
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Wildlife and Conservation Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Wildlife and Conservation
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Wildlife and Conservation Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Wildlife and Conservation
