It’s the RSPB AGM on Saturday – any member can attend the morning event for free (you should register first). I was planning to go, but I can’t – a family event intervenes (which isn’t England v New Zealand or the racing from Cheltenham) so I’m glad that there will be a keen observer in…
BLOG POSTS
I noticed…
… the following quote from Inside Science (click here about 12min 40secs into programme); it’s one of those things that on the surface you think more people, more emissions, more resource demand, food demand, whatever it is but when you look at the numbers, we produce enough food in the world now to feed everyone,…
Important study about which grouse moor managers are keeping quiet
This study has cropped up before on this blog (partly because of the unusual secrecy about who funded it – see here and here) and partly because of the fact that it has been ‘quoted’ by grouse shooting interests in the past before it was published. Now it is published and the grouse shooting industry…
Guest blog – Trophy hunting is not all black and white by Paolo Strampelli
I am a final-year DPhil student with the Ruaha Carnivore Project and the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), at the University of Oxford. I specialise on large African carnivore research and conservation, and have worked on this in Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania. For my DPhil research I am investigating the status and special ecology of,…
Wild Justice asks for apology from Natural England Board
Open letter to Natural England Chair, Board and staff.
Press release – National Trust
First seal pups seen on the National Trust’s Farne Islands The first Atlantic grey seal pups of the season have been spotted on the Farne Islands, just off the Northumberland coast. Globally, the Atlantic grey seal is one of the rarest seal species and is a protected sea mammal. Global numbers are estimated to…
Westminster government failure on wildlife crime action
Today, Wildlife and Countryside Link’s Wildlife Crime Working Group launches its third annual report. the report is supported by a range of WCL member organisations including Wild Justice. Pete Charleston, Chair of the group and Wildlife Crime Officer at Bat Conservation Trust has written a blog to accompany the report. His blog highlights the Government’s…
General licence consultation – RSPB call to action
Following Wild Justice’s successful challenge to the legality of the General Licences Defra has issued a consultation and the RSPB has asked its members to respond – see here. The RSPB suggestions are eminently sensible although they might need a bit more scientific justification for DEFRA to take them sufficiently seriously. Wild Justice will be…
It’s your difficult choice
I’ve been fretting over how to cast my votes in the Birdwatch Birders’ Choice awards. The only one that I have completely decided upon is my choice for the Guano Award for environmental harm – DEFRA deserves to ‘win’ this and let’s hope the results are published before or during an election campaign. Whereas the…
Pretty lame – Woman’s Hour
Yesterday Woman’s Hour (a BBC Radio 4 programme – click here and listen after 23 minutes) got together Minette Batters of the NFU, Marian Spain of Natural England and Beccy Speight of the RSPB on the pretext that there are a lot of women running the environment. In the case of the NFU that is…