The Petitions Committee staff tell me that prorogation does not end this or other e-petitions so the there are a few days, or many days, left to sign this e-petion depending on how you think the debate on the timing of the general election will be resolved. There’s a race on to be the highest-scoring…
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RSPB local groups – another example
I am ******** ************, Group Leader of the Rspb *********************** Group, based at **** **** *****. Thank you for your email on a very important topic. I don’t have any problem forwarding to our members and friends. Literally just have, including it into our monthly mailing. As Rspb members and Local group members, we have…
Not a review of the Red Kite’s Year by Ian Carter and Dan Powell
This isn’t a book review as I wrote the Foreword to this book and so can hardly be unbiased. It’s a very good book – and pitched just right to have something to offer to both the expert and the beginner. And Dan Powell’s illustrations are just lovely. Ian Carter has reviewed books and written…
Press release
Yorkshire Water is facing a formal investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over its refusal to disclose the number of red grouse shot on its land. The investigation has been prompted by an official complaint lodged with the ICO by Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors and the League Against Cruel Sports, after Yorkshire Water…
CIEEM press release
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The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) has today issued a declaration on the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. The declaration calls for action from its members, governments and society on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through nature-based solutions. The declaration stresses that the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis are inextricably linked and must…
Guest blog – Grassland management (2) by Paul Sterry
Back in July a botanist friend from New Zealand came to stay. Anne, my guest, wanted to visit Hay-on-Wye for the books and to see some floral sights in Wales, so we spent a few days roaming around. Hay’s bookshops did not disappoint but I am not sure I can say the same for the…
Listen again to Farming Today
Farming Today last Saturday morning had a discussion about shooting between Andrew Gilruth of GWCT and Pat Thompson of RSPB. Pat did very well but it’s more interesting to listen to Gilruth I think. He rarely answers the question. He reminds me so much of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s performance in Parliament yesterday evening – smooth, unruffled,…
Where we stand
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The ban driven grouse shooting e-petition is the thirteenth best supported of all the 2187 open e-petitions on the Westminster parliament website – that is, it has the thirteenth highest number of signatures. Here is the list with the title, the number of signatures earlier today, the dates when it appeared and when, in theory…
Look what we’ve done now – revisited
This is a blog I posted soon after the result of the EU referendum in June 2016. I think it stands re-reading. How will it all play out now? I went to bed worried on Thursday night (or was it Friday morning?) having heard the first few referendum results, and woke to be devastated by…
Wilful blindness continues, completely unabated
Here is an annotated (in bold and italics) copy of the government response to the phenomenally popular petition by Chris Packham to ban driven grouse shooting (see here). Basically, Defra maintains its wilful blindness of the issues and their responsibility to solve them. Grouse shooting is a legitimate activity [only in the sense of being…