I am grateful to Steve Ormerod for his guest blog of yesterday. It was good of him to respond, as he did – he didn’t have to at all. As Steve wrote, the RSPB and I share almost completely common ground on the problems as we see them. Maybe we differ here or there, but…
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On my recent trip abroad I also saw Clouded Apollo butterfly, Fire Salamander and a tree gnawed down by Beavers. Other birds included River Warbler, Pygmy Cormorant and White-tailed Eagle.
A bit scary
It’s been a bit odd over the last few months – being on the same side of an argument as David Cameron and George Osborne. My instincts are always to take what they say with a pinch of salt (as pictured right) but the size of the pinch just keeps growing as the Brexit/BRemain debate…
Guest blog by RSPB Chair of Council, Prof Steve Ormerod
Mark, As I promised, I’m responding to your questions and challenges set out in your earlier blog. You regularly and accurately point out that we are all basically after the same thing: we a future for England’s moors and hills that is free from the illegal killing of birds of prey and where land management…
38,000 – and your help needed please
Yesterday when I was in…oooh!…nearly gave it away then…our e-petition passed 38,000 signatures. That is, in two months, a third of the time available, we are well past a third of the way towards the 100,000 signatures needed to generate a debate in Westminster on the future of grouse shooting, and therefore to bring the…