I’m grateful to Andy Beer of the National Trust for his response on this blog this morning. NT, in deciding, rather unnecessarily in my view, to seek ‘partners who can demonstrate how moorland management and shooting can deliver great nature conservation in a way that is compatible with public access’ open up some interesting questions to…
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NEWS: well done Fareshare!
From the Fareshare website: ‘FareShare’s guidance on wild game FareShare can accept wild game providing it meets EU standards for human consumption. Following FSA advice, we are unable to redistribute game to charities where pregnant women or women trying for children, toddlers or children are being fed. Wild game products must always be accompanied…
A response from the NT’s Andy Beer
Dear Mark Thank you for the invitation to respond to your blog, which I picked up on Twitter. When we made the decision to terminate the existing tenancy in 2016, we felt that we sent a strong signal about our sense of purpose in delivering the High Peak vision. That sense of purpose remains…
Hen Harrier Day Highlands on Sunday
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On Sunday I’ll be heading to the Highlands Hen Harrier Day event, the northernmost ever, in the Boat of Garten Community Hall, 1pm start. Free admission. Speakers: Dr Mark Avery – Author, blogger and conservationist. Andy Wightman MSP – Writer and advocate of land reform. Allan Bantick – former chair of SWT Ian Thomson –…
A big thank you in advance!
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A big thank you to all those involved in organising Hen Harrier Day events this year – it’s a lot of work, I know. On Saturday there are events at: RSPB Rainham Marshes Sheffield RSPB Loch Leven Glenarriff Forest Park On Sunday there are events at: RSPB Arne Dunsop Bridge, Lancs Isle…
Hen Harrier Day in Sheffield on Saturday
After meeting in the Derwent Valley in 2014, the #sodden570, and then assembling in the Goyt Valley in 2015, followed by a gathering in Edale last year, the Peak District area Hen Harrier Day event is slap bang in the middle of Sheffield this Saturday. The event will be ‘chaired’ by Liz Ballard, CEO of…
An NT supporter comments on decision to go for grouse shooting
This is a comment posted on an earlier blog post by a committed NT supporter – I thought it worth giving more profile because it’s very powerful. NT must surely realise what they are doing, through their own choice of action, to alienate their supporters and paying members. The offer of a guest blog here…
OneKind social media campaign
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I’m glad I’m a member of OneKind – and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with their Chief Exec in Boat of Garten on Sunday at Highlands Hen Harrier Day. This feisty organisation has launched a social media campaign for the month of August. The idea is that we tweet images of wildlife, any Scottish wildlife…
NT has been prompted into saying something – but not much
This appeared on Twitter a little while ago. The offer is still open to the National Trust to do a better job of explaining why they want to persist with grouse shooting on their land (for they don’t have to). Copy deadline tomorrow evening so that it could appear before Hen Harrier Day and well…
The National Trust grouse shooting muddle
I’m getting feedback from many people about how disappointed they are with the NT position on grouse shooting on their land – the land whose purchase and management we, as NT members, have funded. One guy told me of a conversation he had with a NT staff member where he was told that ‘the upland…