BLOG POSTS
I felt I’d been lax
To cut a long story short I’ve just joined the League Against Cruel Sports as a member. This is largely because they have supported Hen Harrier Day and our e-petition so helpfully. But there are some other reasons, too. First, I have got such a lot of abuse from people on Twitter over this e-petition…
NEWS: M&S drop grouse sales in response to threatened boycott
Ben Webster in The Times: Game Over: M&S takes grouse off the shelves after boycott threat. M&S won’t sell grouse this year and tests new code for grouse moors after boycott threat http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4156994.ece … We did that! Consumer power. Well done M&S!! I’ll be shopping with you again later today. And we’ll be watching you carefully…
Vote for Policies
Vote for Policies is a website that allows you to compare the policies of political parties on areas that interest you (eg the environment) without being told which party’s they are, and then lets you see which political party is closest to your own view of the world. I used it in the 2010 general…
Another man’s blog
Comments Off on Another man’s blog
This is a link to an excellent post on Chris Townsend’s excellent blog. What he describes is the Scottish version of Walshaw Moor and the industrialisation of the north of England’s hills. Sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting in England. I hope Chris will write a Guest Blog for here soon.
We knew that – but it bears repetition
If we ate more of what we grow we could feed another 4 billion people – which would go a long way, in the short term to deal with global food poverty. Many of these gains would be achieved in a few countries. The major gains would be from eating less meat (and more plant…
What they say 10:
Bob Elliot, Head of Investigations at the RSPB, is the latest to be interviewed ahead of Hen Harrier Day. His interview is available to hear on the BAWC soundcloud ‘Without doubt there is widespread illegal persecution of Hen Harriers’ ‘If someone’s intent on killing them, then the chances of us being in the right…
Breaking news…Government forgot about the general election!!!
I have just (17:19) received this email: Dear Dr Mark Avery, Unfortunately we’ve had to bring forward the closing date of your petition Ban driven grouse shooting from 28 May 2015 to 30 March 2015 The dissolution of this Parliament has now been scheduled for 30 March 2015, and it’s not possible for petitions…
This blog – 2 landmarks (of a sort)
The first post on this blog was on 21 April 2011, a few days before I left the RSPB. Today saw the 1500th blog post here, and, by chance, the 20,000th comment on that blog too. Early on, I told you what this blog would do, and I’m glad to see that I have held…
Just a Water Rail
If I hadn’t been with Lennox, I would have come home saying that I had had a nice toasted cheese sandwich but had seen just a Water Rail at Wicken Fen. As it was, because Len knows his dragonflies and damselflies, I could say that I’d seen about a quarter of the UK species. Most…