Standing up for Nature
To donate to the elephant appeal click on spaceforgiants.org/elephantappeal To raise a voice for raptor protection then sign this e-petition which yesterday passed 9000 signatures. Might it just get to 10000 signatures – thus triggering a response from Defra – by 10:36 on 27 February? If you haven’t signed, then please do. If you…
It’s been a ghastly day weather-wise but I have been thinking about the storm that is coming together around raptor persecution. I thought hard about it – it put a smile on my face. No, raptor persecution isn’t as important as climate change, or flooding, or even, to my mind, farmland bird declines – but…
You think it should be… … and even 45% of those who say they would be Tory voters if there were a general election tomorrow agree with a ban. [Click here, here, here and here for other results from this survey]
We must congratulate Princes Charles and William for speaking out against the illegal killing which is driving the African elephant closer to extinction. Channel 4 (and the RSPB) made the point that there is plenty of illegal destruction of wildlife here at home too. Some of it in the part of Scotland where Prince William…
Four out of five respondents to the readers’ survey said that they would vote Labour rather than Conservative if the general election took place tomorrow. Don’t worry – it isn’t happening tomorrow. [Click here, here and here for other results from this survey] There were over 600 of you who I will describe as ‘Labour’…
Readers of this blog are generally satisfied with the performance of wildlife NGOs – I think you are all just a little too generous. However, although there is a clear majority who disagree with the idea that there are too many NGOs, a large minority – 43% of respondents – believe that we have too…
I’ve never bought a Lottery ticket in my life. It’s not that I don’t believe in gambling, but I take it seriously, which means I would never bet on a game of chance where the expected returns are 50p in the pound. Duhh! And it’s not that I don’t believe in giving money to charity…
I’ve made it out a few times recently but I only got a little bit further than this at Stanwick Lakes the other day before the water was too deep for wellies. It hasn’t felt much like spring to me, but some of the birds seem to believe it is. Great Tits are in full…
It’s raining – I blame the Environment Agency. And while we are at it, I blame them for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, toothache, late buses, cancer, the Great Fire of London, Eric Pickles, Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal, the Countryside Alliance, potholes, Judas Iscariot, the wreck of the Torrey Canyon, plagues of locusts,…
The responses to the readers’ survey (854 of them, although not everyone answered every question) suggest that readers of this blog are not hopeful about the state of British wildlife, think the coalition government is doing a bad or very bad job for the environment and claim that this will influence how they vote. Last…