But here is an update on the new petitions that I told you about 10 days or so ago: Publish the Russia report, now 53,702 signatures (was 23,953 signatures) Make Hedgehogs a Protected Species, now 42,455 signatures (was 6557 signatures) Legal rights for ancient trees, now 5,354 signatures (was 607 signatures) Don’t criminalise trespass, now…
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A year ago
A year ago this very important paper looking at the fate of satellite-tagged Hen Harriers was published in Nature Communications. It’s open access and so you can read it but it does take quite a bit of reading. Here is my post from last year which explains what the paper found – several people have…
Natural solace
I keep hearing that we are confined to our homes but that is a very urban perspective on social isolation. For those of us who have countryside on our doorsteps we are much better off. Yesterday I walked the five paces from my front door to the car, drove about three miles and went for…
Wild Justice launches new challenge of general licences – this time in Wales
Link to Wild Justice blog – click here. Link to crowdfunder – click here.
Two Hen Harrier arrests
Raptor Persecution UK does a fantastic job of keeping us all informed about raptor persecution, and their Twitter profile‘s words of ‘Think illegal raptor persecution is a thing of the past? Think again!‘ are just spot on. Last week and last night RPUK brought us all news of two alleged observed shootings of ‘protected’ Hen…
Nature as a source of solace, in times of corona
Yesterday I spent some time looking out from my front door as the school children were heading to school. They didn’t seem to me to be whining but some had shining faces and many did have satchels or their modern equivalents (see here) but there were definitely fewer of them than usual. And I wondered…
NEWS: update from Court 69 #justice4henharriers
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One of the three Appeal Court judges, Sir Patrick Elias, was taken ill over the lunch break and the case has been stopped. Obviously, I send Sir Patrick my every best wish for a full and speedy recovery. None of us knows the details of the illness but it occurred at a time when rumours…
Update from Court 69 #justice4henharriers
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Our appeal against the judgment of Justice Lang is being heard today and tomorrow in Court 69 of the Royal Courts of Justice. I’m disappointed not to be there but I’ve had an update from our legal team. Our barrister, David Wolfe QC was first to make submissions and those were finished just before lunch…
Writing a blog in times of corona
I’d be very surprised if your mindset and mood haven’t changed a bit in the last week, maybe particularly in the last 24 hours. The world is a different place. So, what to write about in times of corona? Some of the things that I normally write about won’t happen (my diary is emptying rather…
Guest blog – A happy Paddy’s Day by Mark Robins
Mark Robins – a more or less full working life in and around nature NGOs and agencies various – mostly in South West England and especially for the RSPB. Moved to Ireland in 2018 and for a year led the BirdWatch Ireland Conservation & Policy team and is now a freelance natural environment and sustainable…