Five years ago today I left the RSPB and started life as a …well, I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew it was time for a change. Now I tend to call myself a writer and environmental campaigner. In that time I have written seven books – so I probably…
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The Peak District – a fulcrum for change
What happens in the Peak District National Park is vital to the future of driven grouse shooting, to the future of our upland National Parks, and, indeed, to the future of the UK uplands. That’s quite a claim, so let me back it up. The pernicious impact of driven grouse shooting is now pretty well…
Books that I am reading
I hope to review George Monbiot’s new book ‘How did we get into this mess‘ on Sunday. I’m still reading it. But then I am also reading Mike Dilger’s book ‘Nightingales in November‘, Theunis Piersma’s Guests of Summer, and Kevin Parr’s Rivers Run too. Since Monday is a Bank Holiday, and therefore like a Sunday,…
NE will reply individually to comments on the ‘man guarding his model Hen Harrier ‘ incident
The Natural England Press Office say that their Chief Executive will respond individually to emails he receives on the subject of armed men with model Hen Harriers in the Peak District. That’s James Cross, Chief Executive, Natural England: [email protected]
Peak District – what they say
This post starts with a simple round-up of who has said what since the breaking of the faking it blogpost on the Raptor Persecution UK (yes really!) website on Tuesday but ends with a challenge. Later today I will blog on the importance of the Peak District in the future of driven grouse shooting and…