Today the RSPB issued two press releases, one on burning in the uplands, the other on the annual Birdcrime report. It’s a bit unusual for two press releases to come out on the same day but today is the start of the burning season in the uplands and so that timing makes complete sense. I…
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RSPB press release – ban the burn
Mayors, councils, local communities, and RSPB unite in support of the call to urgently ban peatland burning on grouse moors. The RSPB is today calling on Government to implement an immediate end to the burning of precious peatlands on moors managed for grouse shooting. The call, which comes on the first day of this year’s…
RSPB Birdcrime report
Birdcrime: The law has failed our birds of prey RSPB Birdcrime report reveals 85 confirmed incidents of bird of prey persecution in the UK in 2019 including shooting, trapping and poisoning RSPB data, peer-reviewed science and population surveys prove these crimes are concentrated on and near driven grouse moors Between 2012-2019 half (49%) of the…
Badger petition update (3)
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We are approaching the end of the first week of this petition and it has already passed 47,000 signatures. This demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Inhumane Badger slaughter is not a vote winner. Four days ago there were only four constituencies with…
Law Pod UK – reintroductions podcast
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Here’s a discussion of which I was a part, talking about reintroductions of Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles and potentially of Hen Harriers and listening to the story of the Short-haired Bumblebee. I’d have liked more on the bumblebee!
Mark Avery is not yet reading…
I have a pile of books to review as lots of publishers delayed publication until September and so there is now a flood. There will be two books reviewed on this blog on Sunday to enable me to keep my head above the rising tide; Dominic Couzens’s A Bird a Day and Hugh Warwick’s The…
RSPB Green Recovery Plan
Yesterday the RSPB launched this document with a rather ambitious title. In 15 pages, which amount to six and a half pages of text, the RSPB sets out its green recovery plan. As a bunch of ideas they are very much the right ideas. As a plan, it’s hardly a plan. As a report, it’s…
RSPB webinar with Rebecca Pow
I watched this webinar this morning and it was a good event. Thank you to the RSPB for putting it together. It coincided with the launch of what the RSPB call a Green Recovery Plan (I’ll come back to that later) but in many ways this event was a stand-alone event. Beccy Speight, RSPB CEO,…
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