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Queen saves countryside, Steve Bell thinks not…
I do like Steve Bell’s Guardian cartoons – they usually make me laugh although I know they won’t be too everyone’s taste. Was this one stimulated by the Sunday Express headline a few weeks ago which stated that ‘Queen saves countryside’? Would cormorant now be added to the list?…
Prof Sir John Lawton says…
…that the Chancellor, George Gideon Oliver Osborne, is a ‘bloody idiot’ on the subject of wildlife protection. Sir John, or actually, I see, John Hartley Lawton, is a Vice President of the RSPB, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a good birdwatcher, was the last chair of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (deceased), is…
Cormorants are next
In what seems like undue haste, the hunting, shooting and fishing brigade have moved on to cormorants after failing (at least for a while) to get a receptive government department to licence some buzzard bothering. Cormorants are an easier target because they aren’t very pretty. Don’t get me wrong, they are quite pretty (in an…
Is your MP in this list – mine isn’t?
The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development is happening right now (I’ve been blogging about it for the RSPB over the last 20 days). Stop Climate Chaos produced a Rio declaration and I asked my MP, Louise Mensch to sign up. I got a good detailed reply from Ms Mensch but I noticed that she didn’t…