Are you holding the date of 25 June, midday, for a picnic on a grouse moor in north Yorkshire? I am. I’m looking forward to it. Apparently this picnic will be in a constituency which has more than 100 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, is in a National Park and is…
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Sunday book review – The Life of The Robin by David Lack
This book is a classic and has been reissued with an introduction from David Lindo (whose National Bird Vote firmly established the Redbreast as our national bird) and gorgeous artwork by Robert Gillmor (as in the 1965 edition but with a spanking new cover). And this re-issue also has an account of the importance of…
When in doubt – ask Shania Twain!
The RSPB is getting into a bit of a pickle, and that’s a shame. It has had a really bad week with its natural allies and that week comes after a slow slide in confidence throughout 2016 in the organisation’s ability to make a difference on raptor persecution at a policy and advocacy level. The…
Moorland Association – would you trust this lot with your Hen Harriers?
The Moorland Association is the trade union for moorland owners and managers in England. Its membership must include most of the people from whose land 300+ pairs of Hen Harriers are missing because of illegal persecution. They must all have sleepless nights over this (particularly with more and more Hen Harriers being satellite tagged). The…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Domino effect?
The week started badly with a flaccid statement from the ‘campaigning’ RSPB but ended well with firm action from the staid NT. Readers of this blog may well be up to date with many aspects of the NT’s decision to terminate a shooting let through the excellent Raptor Persecution UK blog or through Martin Harper’s…
Funding update – thank you!
Thanks to your generosity we have raised £2500 for the campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Any further contributions would be very welcome – and it is likely that I will pass the hat around again later in the summer as we race towards the finishing line of 20 September. We aren’t, remember, even half…
Check out Raptor Persecution UK
I was on the road yesterday afternoon when an interesting and important story broke. And I’m still on the road. But I believe a team of people at Raptor Persecution UK has been working through the night to keep you up to date. So go have a look at their blog and I will be…
And another e-petition!
Mark my words, there will be some more coming soon too. But here is another e-petition about Hen Harriers and grouse moors. I’ve signed it (even though there are a couple of mistakes in it). You could too.
41,000
Another milestone reached. Many thanks to all who have signed and supported, and huge thanks to Stewart Abbott for the thunderclap yesterday which is giving signatures a boost and pushed us over the 41,000 mark. Also a big ‘THANKS!’ to Natalie Bennett who joined that thunderclap and swelled its social reach. The West Country continues…