It’s now a month after the general election (remember the general election?), parliament has reassembled, and the Tory government hasn’t yet reopened the e-petition website. Maybe they’ve decided not to bother with them any more? Or maybe they are just incompetent. I’m quite keen to launch an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (with a…
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Natural England bleats
Natural England roused itself from slumber yesterday, perhaps after reading this blog (you never know – they do, you know!), and uttered a few weak words on the disappearance of a male Hen Harrier from Geltsdale in Cumbria. It’s good to know that Natural England is ‘very concerned’ about the state of a species on…
Henry asks who owns Scotland
Henry is pretty broad-minded and interested in quite a lot of things. Whilst in Scotland he met the expert on land ownership, Andy Wightman. Andy writes a blog, and has published several books including The Poor had no Lawyers. Andy is an expert on land tenure and land reform – and also on what is…
Geltsdale: another missing male Hen Harrier
Yesterday the RSPB released the news that there had been a pair of Hen Harriers nesting at their Geltsdale nature reserve in Cumbria, but that the male had gone missing and the nest had consequently failed (see here, here and here). This followed the news that three male Hen Harriers had gone missing in the…
Scottish Ornithologists (with an apostrophe)
Having drawn a blank with SLE we tried SOC – but they weren’t in either. Never mind, Henry likes the SOC very much. I was a bit worried about missing apostrophes but Henry said that missing ringtails were much more important. Why aren’t there more Hen Harriers on Scottish grouse moors? Well, I think we…