Fineshade Wood should be an SSSI

Mr James Cross, Chief Executive Natural England, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX   Dear Mr Cross We are writing to ask Natural England to consider, as a matter of urgency, the complex of woodland known as Fineshade Wood (SP99) in Northamptonshire for notification as a Site of Special Scientific Interest…

Well said Mr Watson!

I don’t know who this guy is but I rather suspect he has signed our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – given his very well-argued and detailed evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.  

18,000!

The Calder Valley is the first English constituency to reach 100 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (highlighted in blue above). It joins Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (113 signatures) and Ross, Skye and Lochaber (110 signatures) in the ‘100 club’. Yesterday the total number of signatures passed 18,000 signatures and we…

My NGO disinvestment policy

In March, of course I was struck by the fact that LACS supported our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting but I didn’t have any spare dosh to give them after giving over £150 to the BirdLife appeal, linked to Champions of the Flyway, to support work by the Hellenic Ornithological Society to combat illegal…

Guest blog – #Think500YearsAhead by Findlay Wilde

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein The EU referendum is set to take place on 23rd June.  It is a chance to have a say in whether we stay in Europe or not.  This decision will have an…