Maisie is the Campaign Director and co-founder of Crustacean Compassion. She has previously worked at World Animal Protection, where she successfully co-coordinated the EU Supporting Better Dairy campaign in coalition with Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream and Compassion in World Farming, for whom she is also a school speaker. She is currently a Sociology PhD candidate…
Year: 2017
Back to Bris
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I enjoyed attending the Bristol Ornithological Club’s 50th anniversary dinner last week. I gave a little speech and everyone thanked me, and I thanked them, and they thanked me, and I thanked them – it was a thankfest. We met in Bristol Zoo where the health and safety advice had the unusual twist of ‘…and…
Client Earth, FoE and RSPB in the courts
Careful long-term readers of this blog will have been in a better position than most to understand the significance of the court action being taken by Client Earth, FoE and RSPB in relation to the UK government deciding to ignore its obligations to provide access to environmental justice for its citizens under the Aarhus Convention….
Opportunity for 12-16 year olds
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Last summer I was an old green person on a panel of young green people at the WOMAD festival. I was supposed to be mentoring the smiling young man called Josh pictured above but he didn’t need much mentoring. Josh had come to WOMAD from an Action for Conservation Summer Camp and if…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove I am writing to you, again, on the subject of driven grouse shooting. You’ll recall that my e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting received 123,077 signatures last year. There was a ‘rival’ e-petition which has recently closed and I’d just like to update you on the relative strength of both petitions, nationally…