Standing up for Nature
Tim writes: the Ivory Gull is inextricably linked to the ecology of the Polar Bear. The majority of Ivory Gulls remain in the high Arctic throughout the year, even in deep winter when there is 24 hour darkness. They follow Polar Bears around waiting for them to make a seal kill, then they scavenge the…
Fieldsports magazine has asked its reader (is there more than one?) to use this handy checklist on social media to ‘spread the truth about grouse moor management’ – here are some responses. Please feel free to respond to any social media on this subject by linking to these answers. Presumably this is the best that…
Another month, another illegal trap, another driven grouse moor in another National Park. This trap, in fact these traps, found in the open by two walkers, were more easily located because they contained a severely injured Common Gull whose injuries were so bad that it was euthanised. The story is well told by our older…
Schadenfreude is an unworthy feeling, but the fact that the Germans have a word for it and we do not is entirely to their credit, for it is a common human emotion. I thought we had seen the end of mentions of the hopeless Liz Truss on this blog as she exited to the Ministry…