Standing up for Nature
Do you remember this cartoon by Paul Thomas? You can buy the original cartoon portrait of Chris Packham signed by Chris and by the artist, Paul Thomas on eBay – click here. The portrait has a reserve of £150 – which is cheap for an original Paul Thomas so we are hoping that it will…
It is 10 years ago that three observers (one a minor) were watching Hen Harriers coming in to roost at Dersingham Bog NNR when the birds fell out of air and shots were heard. I’ve always believed that those birds were shot and that it wasn’t a made-up account. Indeed, I have also thought the…
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it stands at over 9600) then 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…
From Fighting for Birds: I was on a train to London on 24 October 2007 when one of my staff ‘phoned me up and said he’d had a phone call from a Natural England staff member who had just seen two hen harriers shot out of the air on or near the Sandringham Estate….
Prof David Bryant is a distinguished ornithologist who was the first Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Exeter until his retirement some years ago. He set up the Centre for Ecology and Conservation on the Penryn Campus of the University of Exeter in 2003. But here he writes about an event which happened…