I wrote last August about the outrageous cheek of Natural England crowdfunding for a variety of projects, some of which look very much like its statutory duties to me, and others look like a complete waste of time (see here, here). In the ‘complete waste of time’ category is Natural England’s plan to reintroduce Hen…
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#justice4henharriers Day 1
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And so we move from Day 1 to Day 2 of this crowdfunder – great start. Thank you! People are so generous. And there is £3900+ still to be transferred from a previous successful case – I’ve just nudged Crowdjustice asking them to do this quickly please. Here is the link to the crowdfunder –…
British Birds – February issue
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There is plenty of interest to read in this month’s British Birds. For example, Adrian Pitches’s always-excellent News and Comment section talks about Werritty, the first successful breeding of Spoon-billed Sandpipers at Slimbridge, our own wild-hacking story, the impacts of a heatwave on Guillemots in the Pacific and much more. But as you can see…
RSPB press release
Oxford-Cambridge rail scheme’s “net gain” commitment shows HS2 failing nature Transport Secretary’s announcement of preferred route for East West Rail timely reminder of HS2’s failure to protect environment Responding to the Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapp’s announcement on 30 January of the preferred route for the proposed East West Rail connection between Oxford…
Catfield Fen again
I’ve been writing about the battle to save Catfield Fen since spring 2012 (and I’ve added those blog posts to the curated archive – click here). Although most of the previous 10 posts were in 2012-2014, and the apparent victory by the land owners, Tim and Geli Harris, to save a wildlife gem from water…
#justice4henharriers – mid evening update
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We’re jogging along with this crowdfunder – thank you for all your support. Over 144 supporters already and we’ve hardly started. It would be nice to get this out of the way fairly quickly though – you cannot imagine how often I check it! It’s very distracting. Here is the link to the crowdfunder –…
Update on #justice4henharriers
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Thank you everyone, just over 100 of us, who have contributed to this crowdfunder since 11am. Pretty amazing – thank you. Paul £25 – A most important case involving the prevention of vandalism to my favourite bird by DEFRA decree masked as conservation. Liz £40 – Wonder what being out of the EU will do…
Great start – thank you!
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Here are some early comments from supporters – thank you to the first 33 supporters who took us past £1000 in 80 minutes. Wow! John £10 – I can only manage a small contribution being retired and on a limited pension but I feel this is one of the most important conservation battles of our…
Crowdfunder – #justice4henharriers the appeal
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We’re going back to court to fight for Hen Harriers – this time to the Court of Appeal to challenge the judge’s decision in our judicial review over brood meddling. These things take quite a while but this is not the time to give up. We have a good chance of winning on appeal (not…
Justice for Hen Harriers – the appeal
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The date is set for our (and the RSPB’s) appeal against the judgment in our judicial reviews challenging the legality of brood meddling. I challenged the legality of Natural England’s licensing of this otherwise illegal act on the grounds that there are legal alternatives to brood meddling that Natural England unlawfully ignored and failed to…