Thank you again Chris Packham

I had missed this mention of Inglorious in the Mail on Sunday the weekend before last.  Chris Packham, amongst a host of celebrities, mention a book that they recommend: ‘Most of the UK’s wildlife habitats and many of our species are in critical decline. We’ve lost 50 million birds from our countryside since 1970 so…

Guest blog – Bulgy-eye in Red Grouse by Ruth Tingay

Dr Ruth Tingay is a raptor conservationist with field experience from North & Central America, Europe, Africa, Central and SE Asia. She studied the critically endangered Madagascar Fish Eagle for a PhD at Nottingham University and is a past president of the Raptor Research Foundation. She’s currently researching the illegal persecution of raptors & its…

Labour has this right

The Shadow environment minister, Alex Cunningham, spoke well in the Westminster Hall debate last week saying ‘As a responsible society, recognising the inherent dangers, we have already taken action and regulated to cut lead from petrol, from paint and from water pipes. But, despite the evidence and our previous moves to regulate other sources of…

Thank you Andrew

Thank you to the chair of Natural England for putting Inglorious in his list of books to which he turned for inspiration this year. The other four books are all excellent and it is rather nice to be snuggling up to them on the page in Country Life. I’m glad to see Inglorious on the…

Taking lead off the map

There are two e-petitions relating to toxic lead ammunition. At the moment the one asking for a continuation of our birds being poisoned and our food being adulterated with lead has more signatures so please sign Rob Sheldon’s e-petition to replace toxic lead ammunition with non-toxic alternatives. I find the relatively new Westminster parliament website…