The latest in the excellent series of BAWC podcasts – this one by Terry Pickford. ‘In 1974 we had 39 breeding females…every single estate had hen harriers…but many of them were interfered with’ ‘It changed about 1980’ ‘Derek Ratcliffe was asked the reason why there had been such a calamitous collapse in Hen Harriers…
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It’s the society stupid!
Last week I was early, I’m always early, for my interview with Martha Kearney on the World at One and so I watched a protest march set off from outside the BBC near Oxford Circus. There were firefighters and teachers from the NUT. I recognised the strains of Billy Bragg’s rendition of The Internationale playing…
Looking forward to being at the Game Fair at the weekend
e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Hen Harrier Day with Chris Packham. A grouse with M&S and more in today’s Telegraph City Diary Lead poisons children.
This is a scandal and yet no-one seems to want to expose it
The shooting industry is poisoning thousands of children and has known it is for years – and yet it still promotes wild-shot, lead-shot game meat as a healthy option. See the minutes of the meeting of the Lead Ammunition Group of 16 April 2014 which say: The survey estimated in UK that 5,500 – 12,500…
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Did you watch Hive Alive last night. I started watching it just because I know quite a few of the people involved in making it – Chris Packham, Martha Kearney, Stephen Moss and Brett Westwood. But then I found myself enjoying it! And then I was hooked. A cut above most wildlife programmes. A great…