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I’m looking forward to giving this talk in Norfolk next week: Why should East Anglian Birders care about what happens on Grouse Moors? Great Witchingham (Lenwade) Village Hall, starts at 7.30 pm. Maybe I’ll see you there.
EDM 915
This is interesting. Early Day Motions are a bit like e-petitions for MPs! They have no necessary influence on anything and yet can raise the profile of an issue. And there is one entitled Action Plan for Hen Harriers which has the following text; ‘That this House welcomes the DEFRA plan for brood management trials…
The last Gillmor exhibition?
Robert Gillmor is launching his latest book at what he says will be his last major exhibition, at the Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley on 28 April (exhibition closes 11 May). Put those dates in your diary! Robert says ‘This will be the last exhibition of its kind I’ll ever do – I don’t have anything…
Saving another £6
The National Trust has increaased its subscription rates. I’m not regretting my move to National Trust for Scotland.
Please support this thunderclap
Ed Hutchings’s thunderclap goes out on Friday at noon – it currently has a social reach of over 1 million and could reach more people if you add your name to it here. I’ll be interested to see what impact this has on the number of signatures for Ed’s RSPB-supported e-petition to license driven grosue…
Bowland gull cull 7 – licensing facts still kept secret by NE
I have reminded NE that they owe us all an explanation of the culling of gulls in an SPA which was set up partly to protect its colony of nesting gulls. ‘Nearly three months ago (see below) you told me that the NE investigation into the Bowland Gull Cull was moving to its final stages…
You can vote – this is why
It was on this day in 1918 that the Representation of the People Act received Royal Assent. This act, sometimes called the Fourth Reform Act, followed the previous three in 1832, 1867 and 1884. The Great Reform Act 1832 allowed male rural landowners, shopkeepers and those paying rent of over £10 per annum to vote….
Wuthering Moors (55)
Rumour has it that Natural England has agreed a highly contentious Moorland Plan with the Walshaw Estate – the famous grouse moor, owned by millionaire businessman Richard Bannister, which sits above Hebden Bridge. I wrote in this blog on 2 October 2017 ‘It remains to be seen whether NE will really dig their heels…
YFTB attacks the RSPB again
Presumably as a result of the RSPB’s strong criticism of Natural England’s decision to license a trial of brood meddling and the RSPB’s support for Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing of driven grouse shooting (other e-petitions are available) YFTB has dusted off its attacks on the RSPB. In a press release issued by…