Botanists and entomologists spend a lot of time looking down. We birders spend a lot of time looking up – but my advice to a new birder would be to look up even more. And it’s so much more worthwhile than in the old days. There are more raptors up there. I was in the…
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Just for the record
IPSO account of our successful complaint against the Daily Telegraph. And my earlier account.
Why licensing won’t work for grouse moors.
Our e-petition asking the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting passed 20,000 signatures recently. The momentum is growing all the time. I wonder how many signatures we will have amassed by 21 January? We’re not even half way there yet. I’m often asked why the RSPB doesn’t support a ban on driven grouse shooting…
It’s still Big Match Fortnight
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Your money will immediately double in value if you give it away – if you give it to the World Land Trust before 15 October in Big Match Fortnight. In a previous blog I wrote about the work that you will help to support, and I had an email from someone suggesting that they would…
Thunderclap reaches 500 supporters
The thunderclap launched by Moving Mountains Nature Network to support our e-petition on driven grouse moors gained its 500th supporter today – well within a week of its initiation. This is far, far quicker than I had thought. In fact, I have to admit, I had looked at the figure of 500 and wondered whether…