Standing up for Nature
An extract from the agreed minutes of the SNH Board meeting held on 20 June. Interesting that the Board pointed to the reputational risk of delaying the publication of the damning SAC report on the lack of science behind the misjudged Raven cull. ‘Towards the end of July’ couldn’t have been much later, it was…
Les Wallace’s moderate and sensible petition calling for a proper economic analysis of the costs and benefits of grouse shooting and grouse moor management is approaching 2000 signatures. It would be good to see it pass that mark this weekend – at the end of its first month. The RSPB Skydancer blog gave it some…
I knew that the readership of this blog would fill in the gaps in my knowledge about wild hacking. Here is an interesting link with some photos that show that there can be lots of captive-bred falcons hanging around on moors in Scotland. Wow! I’ve asked SNH to confirm that wild hacking would require a…
There are lots of things that I don’t know, but it’s not that often that someone tells me something and I think ‘Really? Can that be right? Sounds very odd! Never heard anything like that before’. But that happened to me recently when I was contacted by someone I didn’t know who told me that…