Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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This website
I’d like to thank Obicreative for their work on getting this website back up and running. They did a great job, quickly and well, and are a friendly bunch and, to my mind, ridiculously cheap! Here’s their website and I recommend them highly. As readers of this blog, and perhaps of other parts of the…
Shirts – bear with me
I recently moved from the ‘Why have I got so many shirts? I can only wear one at a time‘ state to the ‘Why have I got so many shirts with fraying cuffs and collars? I must get some more‘ state. I usually buy shirts in Jermyn Street in London and I usually buy them…
General Licence confusion
I’d written the following blog post before hearing that Defra are announcing new, or not so new, general licences overnight. Wild Justice will be looking carefully at these and consulting with our lawyers over the next few days. One of the things that has really struck me about the whole business of reforming the general…
Threadbare evidence
The Wild Justice blog has published the Licence Determination document which was obtained through an information request and which forms part of the decision-making for General Licence GL26. It makes interesting reading only in the sense that it is quite fun to try to find the evidence on which the licence is based. It’s like…
It’s very difficult to know what to think
The Tory leadership election both fascinates and repulses me in more or less equal measure. On the face of it, I don’t think they look a very talented bunch and in my view, they don’t look like a particularly pleasant bunch either. But one of them will win, and that person will be our Prime…
The Common Pheasant – livestock or wild bird?
Wild Justice is challenging the General Licence GL26 issued by Natural England to authorise the killing of Carrion Crows to prevent serious damage to livestock. Natural England chose to include gamebirds with livestock such as lambs and piglets in this licence. The legal status of the Pheasant is complex and in this licence it appears…
RSPB press release on Swifts
Conservationists concerned about late swift return This spring, nesting swifts here are arriving later than usual Swift experts have produced new advice for ecologists working on new housing developments to provide homes for these birds Let the RSPB know where you see swifts nesting or flying at rooftop level in the RSPB Swift Survey Celebrate…
To be fair…
To be fair… he got there in the end To be fair, it felt a bit like getting blood out of a stone.
Good news – 4 Hen Harrier nests in Bowland
The RSPB has just released the news that there are four Hen Harrier nests in the Forest of Bowland on the United Utilities estate. this area is managed for water resources with low intensity farming and low intensity grouse shooting. The Forest of Bowland is a large area with several intensive grouse moors within its…