If you are at Bird Fair too then do stop and say hello! If you do, then you’ll probably be asked whether you’d be prepared to sign this petition to ask the Icelandic PM to do her best to end whaling in Icelandic waters. Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British…
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Icelandic whaling petition at Bird Fair
At the Bird Fair this weekend there will be a petition, on bits of paper for a change, asking the Icelandic Prime Minister, very politely, to do her best to end commercial whaling by her country. This is the wording of the petition: Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British Birdwatching…
Bowland Gull Cull 23
Received from Natural England this afternoon. So this confirms that someone called ‘Trustee of 4th Duke of Westminster 1964 Settlement’, which I take to mean the Abbeystead Estate in this instance, committed offences in late June and early July 2017 in the Bowland Fells SSSI, to wit the bumping off of juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gulls…
British Wildlife – Fake National Parks
The August issue of British Wildlife arrived through my letterbox this morning – has yours? I won’t have time to settle down and read it until after the Bird Fair but I did have a quick flick through my own piece on our Fake National Parks – I fear this may raise a few hackles….
Bird Fair food
You could write a book about Bird Fair food… …but let’s not! The Bird Fair food zone is by Cook Street and the Bird Fair website tells you something about the food that is on offer. But you have to look at the Bird Fair programme (p34) to find this interesting Cook Street promise… That’s…