The Scottish Gamekeepers Association say they plan to talk to the Langholm Initiative about returning Mountain Hares back to Langholm. The suggestion that this would involve up to 25,000 animals a year, the number that have been culled in recent years (2015 figure), are certainly exagerrated – but this ‘proposal’ looks more like a new…
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Humiliation?
James Hansen makes good points here but I think he’s wrong to think that the UK government, this government, or its Prime Minister, will feel humiliated by … well, actually, by almost anything. We seem now to live in a world where many politicians feel no shame about acting in contradiction to their words, or…
I’ve only just found this site – useful
The Parallel Parliament website looks very useful – I’ve only just found it. You can find information about departments – such as DEFRA; … MPs and peers, Here’s my MP; … and up to date information on petitions, such as this one on Badgers; This petition information is right up to date (except the only…
8 million pageviews
Yesterday this blog passed another milestone – 8 million pageviews since 21 April 2011. That first post was unexceptional, but one has to start somewhere, and its title, Don’t let them get away with it, might well have become a watchword for this blog. It took me couple of months before I got Google Analytics…
RSPB statement on Public Accounts Committee report: achieving long term environmental goals
RSPB Chief Exec Beccy Speight says: This inquiry has laid bare the urgent need for Government to get a grip on the nature crisis. Ten years after pledging to ‘improve the natural environment within a generation’ the reality is that 15 per cent of the UK’s wildlife is at risk of extinction. Positive words and…
Here we go again…
An immature White-tailed Eagle from the Isle of Wight reintroduction project has spent a few daysin Northants recently, at Pitsford Reservoir, before continuing its wanderings southwards into Oxfordshire and maybe back to its release site on the IoW. Here in Northants we don’t really consider ourselves to be within striking distance of ther IoW but…
Wild Justice asks GWCT…
… to fact check Secretary of State, George Eustice’s statements on gamebirds for scientific accuracy – click here.
Bird Fair update
Following on from my blog yesterday it’s worth reading this update from the LRWT. There is quite a lot more that could be said about this – I’m thinking about whether to say it or not.
Riches not beyond measure
I occasionally update you on the impressive scale of my earnings as a writer. I started doing this because of trolling by shooters about how I was coining it in! But I’ve noticed that quite a lot of people think that every book one writes pays for an expensive new car. This is the latest…
Press release – birds of Poole Harbour
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The Reintroduction & Rewilding Summit Launch A Focus on Wildlife Restoration and a Vision for the Future – created and hosted by Birds of Poole Harbour & The Self-Isolating Bird Club – Saturday 10th April 2021. On April 10th 2021, Dorset-based charity Birds of Poole Harbour in partnership with Chris Packham’s and Megan McCubbin’s Self Isolating…