Dear Andy

Email to Andy Clements, CEO BTO Dear Andy Interesting news about your successor – Juliet will find you a difficult act to follow. And congratulations on your extended term as a Natural England Board member. This email is relevant to both your BTO role and your NE role but it is directed at you solely…

NE, you didn’t

From Natural England, 23 June Dear Dr Avery, Access to information request – Acknowledgement – Request No RFI 5105 Thank you for your request for the information detailed in your email below, which we received on 18 June 2020. We are dealing with your request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Your request is being…

Mr Eustice of DEFRA, not useless at all

I’ve just listened to George Eustice, the Secretary of State for DEFRA, giving an environmental speech and answering a few questions from green NGOs. Mr Eustice is a farmer, a devoted (rather than an opportunist) Brexiteer and a Tory but he is quite an impressive act (which I’ve said before). This may partly come from…

Press release – Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors

Police probe goshawk-killing on Queen’s grouse moor A protected goshawk has been illegally killed on one of North Yorkshire’s most iconic grouse shooting moors owned by Her Majesty The Queen. North Yorkshire Police launched an investigation into the Duchy of Lancaster’s Goathland Estate, nestled in the heart of the North York Moors, after being handed…