I have great admiration for those young people walking out of school today to protest about inaction on climate change. I wish I could go back to school to walk out with them! The hashtags #climatestrike #YouthForClimate #FridaysForFuture and #schoolstrike4climate will get you to posts about it on social media. Our schools must, these days, promote…
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Poor government response
Les Wallace’s petition has now received its expected poor government response. To be fair, it is quite a quick, poor response. Therese Coffey and the rest of Defra say ‘No’. In fact they say ‘No, no need’. I’ll be coming back to this later, probably today, as there are some very interesting aspects to it….
Wild Justice first case…
Chris Packham should be on Good Morning Britain talking about Wild Justice at 06:50 this morning. He tells me he apologises for sniffling – he’s got a bug. And the Wild Justice website is temporarily down too – it has a few glitches and needs a bit of technical fiddling. Maybe it caught something from…
Chris Packham talks about Wild Justice on Farming Today
Chris Packham was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning – listen here, 9mins in to programme. Wild Justice’s website is live – click here. Wild Justice has a Twitter handle: @wildjustice_org Wild Justice’s first press release – click here.
Wild Justice is launched
Wild Justice is launched today. It is a not-for-profit company set up by Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and me. More on what we are going to do through the day, but here is our (first ever) press release: Wild Justice, a not-for-profit company set up by; TV presenter, photographer and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham CBE;…
NEWS: bad news for grouse shooting
It seems we have another five weeks or so to wait until the long, long, long awaited analysis of NE’s Hen Harrier tagging data is published. But the title of the paper ‘Patterns of satellite tagged hen harrier disappearances suggest widespread illegal killing on British grouse moors’ is somewhat revealing. No doubt Michael Gove and…
Smart bird needs help!
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Recent guest blogs
Guest blogs – don’t you just love them? I do, they save me some work and help create a diverse series of views on this blog (as do those who comment here). In the last 10 days I’ve been able to publish four varied and excellent guest blogs. I’d like to thank all four authors…
Guest blog – Greener UK by Shaun Spiers
Shaun Spiers joined Green Alliance as director in June 2017, after 13 years as chief executive of CPRE. From 1994-99 he was a Member of the European Parliament, serving on the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. Shaun is the author of How to build houses and save the countryside (reviewed here) and a trustee of…
Paul Leyland – Elephant Hawk Moth
Paul writes: on a warm summer evening I like to sit in my garden with a light on and see what moths will come in. One of the best to arrive is the Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor). It makes its presence known quickly. Most moths will spend some time flying around before settling on the…