Tim Bonner made an extraordinarily brash claim on Today on Saturday; There is no evidence whatsoever that Pheasant or Red-legged Partridge are doing any significant damage to these special sites. There is simply no evidence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p0fj It is unlikely that DEFRA would have been forced to bring in regulation of gamebird releases (by Wild Justice’s…
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Another bird flu outbreak
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All 13,000 birds kept at this site near Frodsham will be killed. This outbreak is of a different strain of bird (poultry) flu from that also announced yesterday in Kent. The DEFRA announcement has plenty of emphasis on the role of wild birds and see here for more information on a couple of Mute Swans…
Waitrose and lead in game meat
You may easily have missed this statement on the Waitrose website! In fact, it took me 15 minutes to find it and I was told that it was there and what the wording was. You certainly wouldn’t find it easily if, for example, you’d heard that Waitrose had gone lead-free and you wanted to buy…
Avian flu outbreak in Kent
If you go to the APHA website you’ll find this map of the location; Birders will recognise the area as Sandwich Bay with its Bird Observatory. I remember standing on the road which runs throughthe pink circle and looking west at an enclosure which we were told had some Beavers in it. Whereas the area…
Gamebirds victory (5) – writing to Wales
Today Wild Justice’s lawyers wrote to the Welsh government and asked them what are their plans in respect of gamebird releases in Wales in 2021.