This review was published yesterday. It is a major part of the DEFRA response to a Wild Justice legal challenge over the failure of DEFRA to assess the impacts of the unregulated release of tens of millions (47+ million Pheasants and 10 million Red-legged Partridges) on non-native gamebirds on sites of conservation importance. Wild Justice…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Take three letters, from Tory MPs
Over 57,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I’m sure it has quite a way to go still. Here are three letters from Conservative MPs to…
A response from Scottish Conservative MSPs to our e-action
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Over 57,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I’m sure it has quite a way to go still. Below I have posted the standard response from…
A response from Scottish Green MSPs to our e-action
Over 57,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I’m sure it has quite a way to go still. Below I have posted the standard response from…
A response from Plaid Cymru to our e-action
There aren’t many grouse moors in Wales but nonetheless, Hen Harriers that disappear in Wales seem to be drawn to those few spots (see here). This response from Llyr Gruffydd is pretty good considering that this issue is never going to be as high up the agenda in Wales as it is in England and…
The standard response from Scottish Labour MSPs to our e-action
Over 57,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I’m sure it has quite a way to go still. Below I have posted the standard response from…
Swifts
My run of seeing Swifts every day above my garden lasted from 1 May until 13 August – I think that is 105 days. They were difficult to get on the last couple of those days – both times it took until late evening to see one. But none on 14 and 15 August and…
Reasonable response to our e-action from Wera Hobhouse MP
Following the excellent response from Tim Farron MP to his constituents contacting him through the joint Wild Justice, Hen Harrier Action, RSPB e-action here is a response from another LibDem MP, Wera Hobhouse from Bath. It’s not as good as Tim Farron’s, but it is better than the residents of Bath would have had if…
New, less awful, standard response from Conservative MPs to e-action
If you participated in the joint Wild Justice, RSPB, Hen Harrier Action e-action and you live in England, and your MP is a Conservative, then it is quite likely that you have had a response either like the one below (the ‘new’ Tory response) or like this one, the ‘old’ Tory response – click here….
Guest blog – Beavers by Nonie Coulthard
I am a kayaker, Nature-lover, conservationist-becoming-activist. I worked (with Mark) on Bee-eaters in The Camargue and (without Mark) on Bee-eaters in Sénégal and I’m now a consultant and volunteer on conservation and local community development mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and other parts of West Africa. I live next to the Angus Glens and I…