Over 57,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I’m sure it has quite a way to go still. Below I have posted the standard response from…
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Swifts
My run of seeing Swifts every day above my garden lasted from 1 May until 13 August – I think that is 105 days. They were difficult to get on the last couple of those days – both times it took until late evening to see one. But none on 14 and 15 August and…
Reasonable response to our e-action from Wera Hobhouse MP
Following the excellent response from Tim Farron MP to his constituents contacting him through the joint Wild Justice, Hen Harrier Action, RSPB e-action here is a response from another LibDem MP, Wera Hobhouse from Bath. It’s not as good as Tim Farron’s, but it is better than the residents of Bath would have had if…
New, less awful, standard response from Conservative MPs to e-action
If you participated in the joint Wild Justice, RSPB, Hen Harrier Action e-action and you live in England, and your MP is a Conservative, then it is quite likely that you have had a response either like the one below (the ‘new’ Tory response) or like this one, the ‘old’ Tory response – click here….
Guest blog – Beavers by Nonie Coulthard
I am a kayaker, Nature-lover, conservationist-becoming-activist. I worked (with Mark) on Bee-eaters in The Camargue and (without Mark) on Bee-eaters in Sénégal and I’m now a consultant and volunteer on conservation and local community development mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and other parts of West Africa. I live next to the Angus Glens and I…
If you’re really bored
We had a chat with Jimmi Hill about how we get on, how we set up Wild Justice, driven grouse shooting and the meaning of life…
An update from Wild Justice on e-action
Wild Justice has provided an update on how the joint e-action with RSPB and Hen Harrier Action is going, with a list of the top 20 English constituencies (there are some familiar names there) – click here to have a look.
Guest blog – Six Cultural Questions by Laurence Rose
In July 2017 I was in Orkney with an idea for a book but not much of an idea how I would start it or structure it, and I was none too clear about the conclusions I was expecting to draw from it. By the end of the week I had solved all three questions,…
NE and BASC are friends
In the database there are 82 agreements listed. I’m not copying a spreadsheet for you here but I’m sure that Natural England would be happy to provide information to you as they have to me. One wonders why they don’t list them somewhere – 82 in two and a bit years isn’t so many. But…
British Wildlife – August 2020
British Wildlife is moving from 6 issues per year to 8 issues. There’s so much to say about our wildlife that the magazine needs to come out more often. Hooray! As well as February, April, June, August, October and December you will now get a treat in May and November too. In this issue, my…