Dear Nicola and Roseanna I hope you are both well in these strange and worrying times. I’m writing about the White-tailed Eagle which has recently been found poisoned in the Cairngorms National Park, which by now you will be familiar with. And I’ll speak candidly and frankly. We, that’s every decent, law abiding, well informed…
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Dear First Minister – from Bob Elliot and OneKind
Dear Cabinet Secretary (and copied to First Minister Sturgeon) I write as the Director of OneKind and also from a personal point of view regarding the recent very bad news of yet another poisoned bird of prey discovered on a grouse moor, and my wider concerns about the killing of our wild animals. You may remember…
Dear First Minister – from Laurence Rose
Dear First MinisterI have just written a book, publication date 1 October, called Framing Nature – conservation and culture. I’ll send you a copy, hoping that you’ll have a few minutes one evening to read the first few lines of the introduction, which opens with the tragic story of the Scottish wildcat – a sad…
Dear First Minister – from Chris Gomersall
Dear First Minister and Cabinet SecretaryMay I ask, respectfully, which image of a white-tailed eagle do you prefer? And which best represents the aspirations of the Scottish government and its attitude to Scotland’s native wildlife and the environment? I am writing to you because of the latest in a long line of sickening and illegal…
Dear First Minister – from Jon Dunn
Jon Dunn is a birder, author and more, as his letter to Nicola Sturgeon about the poisoning of a young White-tailed Eagle in Strathdon demonstrates. Dear First Minister, I don’t expect you to have heard of me – though I have to say as a Shetland resident, I have admired the SNP’s governance of Scotland…
Dear First Minister
Dear First Minister and Cabinet Secretary I am writing to you about the poisoned White-tailed Eagle that was found on a grouse moor in the Cairngorms National Park. I’m sure you’re getting lots of emails on this subject and I know you will read very few of them. No matter, somebody will read this and…
Inglorious without a doubt
A spreadeagled, poisoned White-tailed Eagle on the heather of a grouse moor surely tolls the death knell for driven grouse shooting. Politicians cannot continue wilfully to ignore the scale of crime against nature that is so closely associated with the niche hobby of shooting Red Grouse for fun. At least they cannot if we all…
World Land Trust Wildfire Appeal – help us get ahead of the flames
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Do you remember the fires of last year? This year they are starting even earlier. The World Land Trust works with partners across the world to protect land of high conservation importance. Our partners are people on the ground fighting these fires and protecting wildlife. I say ‘our’ because I am the chair of trustees…
Press release – Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire Moors
Doncaster Council has backed a ban on heather burning to save the region’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting. In a letter sent to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Mayor Ros Jones said that the environmentally-damaging practice, which is performed by shoot operators to engineer breeding habitat for red grouse,…
Update on 2020 Hen Harrier brood meddling (1)
Natural England issued an update on their controversial Hen Harrier brood meddling project on Friday but I’ve only just seen it. They’ve also sent me (and the RSPB) a further update from their legal department because both RSPB and I are taking legal action against this daft project. First, the Natural England blog. As reported…