Tesco favours wildlife

Tesco has had a tough time of it since teaming up with the RSPB earlier this year.  But at least they have discovered wildlife including the mice that have ‘infested‘ their Covent Garden store causing it to close.  It is expected to reopen as an RSPB nature reserve very soon. London tube stations are just…

Guest blog – Every little helps? by Matt Williams

Matt Williams is a campaigner and organiser. He is Co-Director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and is also undertaking a masters in Development Studies at Cambridge University. He regularly blogs at mattadamwilliams.co.uk    How much is the RSPB’s new partnership with Tesco really benefiting nature? I must preface this blog by stating that I’ve…

Well done RSPB, and the week ahead

Well  done RSPB! In my Birdwatch column, the political birder, for March I wrote about the e-petition started by Chrissie Harper which asks for the law in England to be brought into line with those in Scotland in respect of vicarious liability for wildlife offences. Vicarious liability is an unfamiliar phrase for those of us…

Tesco shares crashed on link-up with RSPB – every little helps

Last week the RSPB and Tesco  re-announced their link up on rainforests – you’ll find a description of the link-up in the most recent Birds magazine which arrived in mid-January (pages 22-23). That link-up has already had an amazing impact on Tesco: looking at its 3-month share value you will find it peaked at 411p…

A busy week

Congratulations to the re-elected NFU President, Peter Kendall, whose speech at the NFU Conference was described as ‘shocking and regressive‘ by one of his own members on this site on Wednesday.  That farmer said he voted for the NFU in the Nature of Harming ‘award’ and writes rather harshly that  ‘Peter Kendall is a PR…