Defra is responsible for our wildlife but if you try to get some information from the Defra media team about wildlife it certainly looks as though the subject has dropped off the agenda. Wildlife is the last mentioned in a section on water, environment and wildlife and doesn’t get a mention in the following blurb – unless, perhaps, as ‘waste’.
You’ll note that there is no email address offered on the execrable Gov.uk website so you have to phone up in office hours, and when you do, you are asked to send an email! How efficient is that?
Last year I asked a bunch of wildlife NGOs what they thought was Defra’s greatest wildlife achievement of 2015 and it’s such an easy thing to do that I thought I’d do the same again this year. Wasn’t Plantlife’s reply fantastic last year? Let’s hope for some corkers this year.
But I thought it would only be fair to ask the same question of Defra so that is what they are bending their minds to at this very moment. Watch this space. Answers next week.
[registration_form]
Still waiting for a FoI response of 25 September So whatever they are these days it’s not efficient?
Maybe they are not allowed to answer questions about HenHarriers any more? Nothing beyond automated acknowledgement
Last year Defra hit rock bottom, this year they commenced drilling. Next year they’ll be fracking useless.
Defra is for…?
Do
Everything
Farmers’
Representatives
Ask
At least they explained their purpose under “Farming protection and welfare”. Covers their main interests surely?
“Covering…animal welfare….”
Wild animals are animals so far as I am aware in my limited capacity as a graduate zoologist, therefore I assume this covers them as illegal killing of animals is surely such acts are a welfare issue?