Just call me 202000070343

From the Scottish government: Our Reference: 202000070343Your Reference: Another poisoned eagle Dear Dr Mark Avery, Thank you for your correspondence received on 29/07/2020. Your query will be passed to the relevant area for consideration and has been given a reference number of 202000070343. Please quote this number in all correspondence. The Scottish Government aim to…

This petition is flying – Decathlon

For more information see the petition itself and this article from The Ferret. To see what Decathlon themselves say, here is their Twitter account on this subject; Decathlon look as though they are generally a force for quite a lot of good in the world – see here – and so I was inclined to…

Pallids in Pas-de-Calais

I’m interested in Pallid Harriers for a number of reasons; they are very beautiful birds, they are expanding their range dramatically westwards in an interesting manner and I have a bet with my friend Ben Koks (which I will be happy to lose) that Pallids aren’t going to have bred in the UK by the…

Let’s hope not

I hope this cartoon by Mr Carbo is unnecessarily pessimistic. It remains to be seen whether the SNP government is prepared to act on wildlife crime and unsustainable moorland management. They have acted on Mountain Hares but if they thought that was enough then they have not read the mood of the Scottish electorate nor…