Standing up for Nature
Tim writes: Pied Flycatcher is quite a scarce bird in my local area so I was quite pleased to find one near Holmfirth. I mentioned it to a friend, who went to look and found three. As the weather was good I decided to go back and try for a photograph and this was my…
This autumn appeal from World Land Trust is very special. And if you donate through Andy Langley’s justgiving page then your donation won’t just be doubled, it will be quadrupled in value. Thank you.
The Wild Justice e-petition against the Badger cull is within 100 signatures of that 50,000 threshold which represents the half way point to a Westminster Hall debate. The petition closes on 24 March 2021 – today is Day 9. I feel we are like3ly to getto 100,000 signatures eventually. I can tell you now, I’d…
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch this October to raise money for WLT’s ‘Saving Ecuador’s Chocó Forests’ appeal. In October, for the last two years, I have done an all day sponsored birdwatch around Gloucestershire to raise money for World Land…
The annual RSPB Birdcrime report is published online today – much of the meat of the report is in the Appendices (which I almost missed – search them out). There is a wealth of detail there, including this updated graph which should be widely copied and reused by all. But it is essentially, and sadly,…
Today the RSPB issued two press releases, one on burning in the uplands, the other on the annual Birdcrime report. It’s a bit unusual for two press releases to come out on the same day but today is the start of the burning season in the uplands and so that timing makes complete sense. I…
Mayors, councils, local communities, and RSPB unite in support of the call to urgently ban peatland burning on grouse moors. The RSPB is today calling on Government to implement an immediate end to the burning of precious peatlands on moors managed for grouse shooting. The call, which comes on the first day of this year’s…
Birdcrime: The law has failed our birds of prey RSPB Birdcrime report reveals 85 confirmed incidents of bird of prey persecution in the UK in 2019 including shooting, trapping and poisoning RSPB data, peer-reviewed science and population surveys prove these crimes are concentrated on and near driven grouse moors Between 2012-2019 half (49%) of the…
We are approaching the end of the first week of this petition and it has already passed 47,000 signatures. This demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Inhumane Badger slaughter is not a vote winner. Four days ago there were only four constituencies with…
Here’s a discussion of which I was a part, talking about reintroductions of Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles and potentially of Hen Harriers and listening to the story of the Short-haired Bumblebee. I’d have liked more on the bumblebee!