Petitions update

But here is an update on the new petitions that I told you about 10 days or so ago: Publish the Russia report, now 53,702 signatures (was 23,953 signatures) Make Hedgehogs a Protected Species, now 42,455 signatures (was 6557 signatures) Legal rights for ancient trees, now 5,354 signatures (was 607 signatures) Don’t criminalise trespass, now…

A year ago

A year ago this very important paper looking at the fate of satellite-tagged Hen Harriers was published in Nature Communications. It’s open access and so you can read it but it does take quite a bit of reading. Here is my post from last year which explains what the paper found – several people have…

Natural solace

I keep hearing that we are confined to our homes but that is a very urban perspective on social isolation. For those of us who have countryside on our doorsteps we are much better off. Yesterday I walked the five paces from my front door to the car, drove about three miles and went for…

Two Hen Harrier arrests

Raptor Persecution UK does a fantastic job of keeping us all informed about raptor persecution, and their Twitter profile‘s words of ‘Think illegal raptor persecution is a thing of the past? Think again!‘ are just spot on. Last week and last night RPUK brought us all news of two alleged observed shootings of ‘protected’ Hen…