It’s not as though the Hawk and Owl Trust is heavily publicising its AGM on Sunday is it? You have to look pretty hard to find any information about it at all on the HoT website. It’s verging on the secretive I’d say. If you put ‘AGM’ into the website’s search engine you find lots…
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Lib Dems all bogged down – Firm briefing 20
There are only eight Liberal Democrat MPs in Westminster and I have now been sent responses from six of them to their constituents. They are all over the place! There are more varieties of response from six LibDems than from scores of Conservatives or tens of Labour responses! Here is a composite letter: As a…
What sort of future farming do you want?
A few days ago, four of the UK’s largest wildlife NGOs launched a joint vision for the future of farming and farm payments (because Brexit means Brexit, you know). I find the fact that WWF is paying attention to the UK countryside, and that they have joined RSPB, National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts to…
Absolutely last chance
I’m not sure when the cut-off is but you are running out of time to submit evidence to the House of Commons inquiry on grouse shooting. Here is the link. I’ve been sent some of your submissions and several people have quoted our new Prime Minister whose speech to the Conservative Party Conference today included…
Flood risk at Hebden Bridge (Wuthering Moors 54)
Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley has experienced terrible floods in recent years. Locals blame the severity of these floods on the intensive management of Walshaw Moor for driven grouse shooting. Now there appears to be some new scientific evidence to strengthen that view. In May 2014 I visited Hebden Bridge and spoke to the…