Defra, the farmer’s friend, believes in permitting fire-bombing of the countryside, it seems. The map above is the distribution of signatures for an e-petition – not for Gavin Gamble’s e-petition asking for driven grouse shooting to be banned but for Hawk Honey’s (nice name!) to ban balloon and sky lantern releases. The Defra response…
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Dr Coffey’s reading list (13) – we need a Reformation
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. Now that Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting has passed 10,000 signatures Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already I am providing a…
Sustainable dilemmas (1) – where you would send me
I expect that many of the readers of this blog feel a bit of nagging guilt about the impact of their lifestyle on the planet, and not just the planet but on the people with whom we share it. What we eat, what we wear, where we travel etc etc – all those things have…
Murmuration
Poor pictures (taken on my ‘phone) but they give you an impression of the murmuration of Starlings near to my home, at Summer Leys nature reserve yesterday evening. They didn’t put on a spectacular show, not much wheeling around, but there were quite a few of them – 6000? And against the setting sun they…
The first four weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 10,000 signatures on Friday. This, importantly, will trigger a response from Defra – a valuable insight into whether the government is still in denial about wildlife crime or whether the message is getting through. Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are…