Standing up for Nature
Oscar writes: This image was taken at the same place as the Moose in last week’s photo. It was our last morning before we headed back to the UK that evening, so again we decided to spent a couple of hours at a spot overlooking the Snake River. There was a lovely layer of mist…
Timing is everything – and so often a matter of luck! I had noticed that the 3000th post on this blog was coming up shortly but a quick, unplanned blog about Mountain Hares meant that when my third e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting went live a little while ago this announcement could occupy the…
As a follow-up to last weekend’s story about Mountain Hare culls in the Cairngorms National Park (you may have read it here first) Rob Edwards writes in today’s Glasgow Herald of the role of the Queen’s highland estate. Mass culls of Mountain Hares have, it seems, been undertaken at Delnadamph – part of the Balmoral…
In this book Tim Birkhead has unscrambled the complexities of the biology of eggs with writing as smooth and rounded as an eggshell. As I sit writing this review I am listening to a dawn chorus dominated by Blackbird song, and I am thinking of the female Blackbird who is sitting on a nest containing…
Andrea Goddard co-founded Let’s Get MAD for Wildlife in April 2014 and is a passionate wildlife enthusiast who has volunteered for the RSPB for five years in various capacities, but mainly at Tollie red kites. She is studying Environmental Science for a BSc (Hons) at Inverness University of the Highlands and Islands. 2nd Year Anniversary of…
My MP is keen that we should vote to leave the EU. He replied to me in a letter ‘This means that we currently send £50 million a day to the European union. If the UK was not in the EU, we could spend this money on farming and our public services, as we see…
And our fourth example of illegal persecution is a Welsh one. It is the case described by the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog here and here and then as follows (an extract) on the RSPB Investigations blog. It’s another eye-opening account of what is going on, and this time it is in a Welsh National Park…
This is the third example of a case of illegal raptor persecution – this one is from Scotland and was taken from Tingay, R.E. (2015). Natural Injustice – Paper I: A review of the enforcement of wildlife protection legislation in Scotland. Scottish Environment LINK, Perth, Scotland. “A white-tailed eagle was found dead close to the…
For our second example of a case of illegal raptor persecution that did not make it to the courts I’ll take you back to the ‘Sandringham harriers case’. This is an extract from Fighting for Birds (pp196-98): Mark writes in Fighting for Birds: I was on a train to London on 24 October 2007 when…