RSPB joins the party on Judicial Reviews

The RSPB has just announced on Martin Harper’s blog that it, too, is making a legal challenge to Natural England’s licensing of brood meddling. The RSPB tipped me off on Tuesday that they had made this decision but they were waiting until they had sent off their letter before action before going public. It’s good…

Trusted Trustees (5) – International Women’s Day

It’s International Women’s Day, although it has been delayed in our wildlife NGOs. Here are the number of trustees and male trustees for a variety of wildlife NGOs (others are, of course, available) and also the gender of their Chairs and CEOs.  They are in some sort of order.

Peregrines

The results of the 2014 Peregrine survey are now published (not very quickly). It’s good to see the detail although the overview results have been available for quite a while.  Peregrines have done well in the lowlands and badly in the uplands. We already know (since 2011) at an even finer grain, for northern England,…

Can you guess?

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting ends on Monday 2 April. How many signatures do you think it will achieve? I’ll happily send a signed, hardback copy of Remarkable Birds, or of Fighting for Birds if you prefer, to you or a named recipient in the UK if you come…