Following the RSPB’s and WWT’s witty open letter to shooting organisations to join them in a call for a ban on the use of toxic lead shotgun ammunition in the UK, the Countryside Alliance have rapidly responded. Their response isn’t quite so joke-laden, and amounts to a leaden ‘No, won’t!’. Quelle surprise! The Countryside Alliance…
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WWT and RSPB call out failed shooting organisations, and government, on lead ammunition (at last)
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WWT and RSPB have written an open letter to ‘shooting organisations’ (BASC, BGA, CA, CLA, GWCT, MA, NGO, SACS, SLE – but apparently not SGO) calling for them to join in a call for a statutory end to the use and sale of lead shotgun ammunition. The letter has two fine jokes in it where…
Sunday book review – Wild City by Florence Wilkinson
There is wildlife everywhere and that includes our big cities, towns and villages. This shouldn’t come as a surprise really, but we are so wedded to the idea that our own activities are driving wildlife abundance down (as they are) that we, perhaps subconsciously, believe that built up areas must be the worst possible places…
Sunday book review – Tickets for The Ark by Rebecca Nesbit
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I think this is a good book and it ranges rather more widely than its extended title might suggest. The author picks up many issues connected with how we do nature conservation and why we do it in the way that we do. Much of the book is about values, and about the choices that…
Sunday book review – The Role of Birds in World War Two by Nicholas Milton.
I know Nicholas Milton from quite a long way back and I reviewed, favourably, a previous book of his, Neville Chamberlain’s Legacy, here. When I get one of Nicholas’s books I tend to think, ‘I wonder whether I’ll be interested in that’ but it seems that I always am, and I think that’s partly because…