Pete Etheridge is passionate about nature, the countryside and sustainable land management. He has, in the past, worked in estate management, as well as for conservation charities and commercial ecological consultancies. He is shortly set to join a revolutionary farm in South Devon, where he will be helping to promote the principles of agroecology and…
BLOG POSTS
22,000
Comments Off on 22,000
And another milestone is passed. Thank you everyone! The next milestone is pretty close too: last year we reached 22,399 signatures in 10.5 months and that total is within reach inside three months. Please sign the e-petition to get a debate on driven grouse shooting and please join the Thunderclap to help spread the word…
Oscar Dewhurst – Little Owl
Comments Off on Oscar Dewhurst – Little Owl
Oscar writes: This is another taken of my local Little Owls where I spent some time earlier in the summer. This was taken early one morning after I’d spent a while looking for them without success. I then noticed one of the owlets hunting around a fallen tree trunk on the ground. I lay down…
21,000
It was last Sunday that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – or at least to get a debate on the subject in the Westminster parliament – passed 20,000 signatures. Yesterday, Saturday it romped past 21,000 and today, it is within a couple of score of 22,000. Please note – we are not even…
Lead – mark this quote for later.
There is a piece in the Sunday Telegraph today about the findings of the Lead Ammunition Group. There isn’t anything new in it for readers of this blog (The findings of the Lead Ammunition Group, 9 September 2015 ) except some quotes. Those quotes from the chair of the group, the ex chief executive of…
Some of Ralph Underhill’s best cartoons from 2013
Comments Off on Some of Ralph Underhill’s best cartoons from 2013
Ralph is on holiday – and he deserves it! He has provided cartoons for this website for three years now – very reliable guy! Here are a few of my favourites from 2013!
Two AGMs – RSPB
Ahead of today’s RSPB AGM, Martin Harper posted a very robust blog about the RSPB’s position on driven grouse shooting (click here). Just as I did yesterday, Martin asked the question whether there are any grouse moors out there that do all the right things. He clearly doesn’t know of any (which makes licensing a…
Two AGMs – H&OT
Today it is the Hawk and Owl Trust’s AGM. On the H&OT website is their annual report which has these interesting lines in it: ‘For the Hawk and Owl Trust positive habitat management away from the grouse moors will be one of the actions that will hold the key to the future of the hen…
Looking up
Botanists and entomologists spend a lot of time looking down. We birders spend a lot of time looking up – but my advice to a new birder would be to look up even more. And it’s so much more worthwhile than in the old days. There are more raptors up there. I was in the…
Just for the record
IPSO account of our successful complaint against the Daily Telegraph. And my earlier account.