The paperback edition of Inglorious has an extra chapter which covers events in 2015 and the very early parts of 2016. It will be in shops very soon – official publication date is a week away but somehow they seem to slip out earlier. Who gets a mention in the new chapter? Hawk and Owl…
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Guest blog – We forgot to tell the fish by Carrie Hume
Carrie Hume is Director of Conservation & Campaigns at the Marine Conservation Society. She grew up in the seaside town of Lowestoft, with a long family legacy of entrepreneurial fisherman, who were ultimately doomed by the early-twentieth century collapse in the local fishing industry. Currently land locked in Herefordshire, a committed environmentalist, she is coming…
Dear Minister
Dear Minister Welcome to your new role in Defra following in the rather small footsteps of Rory Stewart. It is to be hoped that you will be able to do more good for wildlife and the environment than your predecessor. You have a wide range of jobs to do but may I point you in…
The science about which Truss misled us
In a slightly shocking move last week (though I am not easily shocked) Liz Truss (formerly of Defra) announced she was not taking any notice of the report of the Lead Ammunition Group report (now published in full). She announced this after sitting on the report for 14 months, on the day a PM resigned…
New M&S nonsense
M&S keep digging a hole of ignorance and you can hardly see the tops of their heads now. In their current stock answer to customers concerned about the origin and lead content of the grouse meat that they might or might not sell to the general public they have a new phrase ‘all M&S game…
Two whole months to go
62,000! And two whole months to go (with July and August both having 31 days – these things matter you know). We are two thirds through the time so we ought to be on 66,667 – but we are not too far off on 62,000+ and we certainly have plenty of momentum. Here are…
M&S wavering
There is nothing but stubbornness stopping M&S from dumping grouse meat. They have dumped it in the previous two years – once for a good reason and once for a bad reason. Last year, they just used what looked like an excuse but in 2014 they said they wouldn’t sell grouse meat until they received…
A place for trolls
If you want to put forward a point of view on grouse shooting then you are very welcome to comment on this blog – where your comment won’t be deleted and won’t be selectively quoted. If you want an argument with me about grouse shooting then come here and try your luck. Yesterday evening a…
Guest blog – What is Britain’s Native Wildlife? by John Burton
John Burton is one of the most experienced and free-thinking of British conservationists. He was a founder and the first chief executive of the World Land Trust. He stood down from that position recently but will still be working hard for WLT into the future. Defining Britain’s native wildlife is complex….
61,000
There’s another 1000 signatures! We have momentum! Over five weeks ago I wrote, with the help of Shania Twain, a blog that stated: ‘The RSPB … now faces the situation where well over 40,000 people support a policy position that the RSPB does not support and that figure is certain to pass 50,000, likely to…