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…

Some of us get to vote a week today

If you live in England and Wales, but not in London or Greater Manchester, you will have the chance to vote for your police and crime commissioner a week today. P&CCs are charged with ensuring effective and efficient policing of a police area.  Wildlife crime is part of that role – certainly not the most…

A comment from a regular

This comment was posted earlier today on this blog by ‘jbc’. It’s so well written that it deserves a wider airing. Thank you all for your comments – they help make this blog what it is – whatever it is!   I don’t work for an NGO now and have never worked for RSPB –…

Rude message from David Parks on Facebook

I get some of this. This was posted as a message on my Facebook page yesterday night, posted just before midnight, I see. ‘what a fckn blinkered idiot you are…! you and the like of Packham……………….you will never defeat shooting,insignificant idiots……………‘ It’s always nice to know that people care. The person who sent me this…

NT statement

I have just received this statement from the National Trust Press Office after asking them about the incident of a man sitting in the heather near a model Hen Harrier on National Trust land back in February. The NT Press Office also tell me that the incident took place on Snake Moorland.   Jon Stewart,…