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World Land Trust (of which I am a Council member) is working with Wildlife Trust of India in an urgent bid to save Indian Elephants from extinction by safeguarding their traditional migration routes. The Elephant Corridor Appeal aims to raise £750,000 to extend and protect Mudahalli Corridor, where the Eastern and Western Ghats meet in…

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Yesterday – evidence session Today – written evidence from the four witnesses who were called to give evidence in person published In the next few days hundreds of written submissions received by the inquiry will be published I will submit supplementary evidence to the Committee I believe that option is open to the public too…

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The shooting community lacks good losers – but they had better get better at it. One of their current bugbears is the wave of public opinion that has carried the subject of driven grouse shooting into the Westminster parliament. The simple fact is that only 38 petitions have been debated in this session of parliament…

Written evidence from the four witnesses who gave oral evidence.

My written evidence RSPB’s written evidence Countryside Alliance’s written evidence Moorland Association’s written evidence   The inquiry received hundreds of statements of written evidence which will be published over the next few days. It’s a big job for the committee clerks to read it all, exclude any evidence that might be libellous or inappropriate for…