Simon Barnes writes so well, and I tend to agree with him too. In today’s Independent on Sunday he makes the point, made here and elsewhere in the past, that it’s very nice to see Prince William arguing against illegal killing of wildlife abroad but why the silence here at home? How about coming out…
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Last before Christmas
[No book review this week – I’ve been too busy to read]. I am keen on National Hunt racing, as regular readers will know. And I’m a member at Cheltenham as that is where, overall, the best of British NH racing takes place. So I headed off from Northants to Glos on Saturday morning. But…
More photos from Tuesday – and the appearance of a ‘spinner’.
All images: Eleanor Bentall. I see that Charles Moore has used his column in the Torygraph to have a go at the RSPB and the Wildlife Trusts for asking their members to show their support for a Nature and Wellbeing Act, to defend the EU nature directives (Birds Directive and Habitats and Species Directive) and…
Saturday cartooon by Ralph Underhill
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Round up
Here are some things that caught my eye: Wild Travel magazine has folded – speaking as a subscriber and former columnist I’m sorry about that should the GB be GB’s national bird? Telegraph letters snares around stink-pit on Peak District grouse moor catch pet dog -Buxton Advertiser the Big Give is matching your donation to…
An end of year survey
What do you think of wildlife NGOs, political parties, this website and a few other things? Just a dozen easy questions – and it is anonymous. Click here to take part. Poll will close late December, results here early January.
H is for Hawk
Video evidence was used to secure a conviction of a Scottish gamekeeper for wildlife crime yesterday in an important case. I don’t know any more about this case than you can read here, here and here. This killer killed a Goshawk. The fact that video evidence was admitted, I guess making it a pretty straightforward…
You voted for them…
The responses coming in from your MPs don’t seem to be impressing you very much from what I see. There is, as several people have mentioned, a standard Conservative response to our fairly standardised series of questions running up to the Rally for Nature. It’s not surprising that the answer is a standard one, each…
Rallying
When you have as enjoyable time as I did on Tuesday at the Rally for Nature, it’s difficult not to keep thinking back to it. It’s also wrong not to keep thinking back to it. Here are just a few thoughts and a few photographs. Really good to see Charlie Moores, one of the…
Info v misinfo
So, that’s the end of the Red Grouse shooting season for another year. One year, not so far away, it will end for good. Last week the Moorland Association and BASC published their ‘misinfographic’ on grouse shooting – the one about which I have contacted the ASA. This week, the League Against Cruel Sports produced their…