Client Earth, FoE and RSPB in the courts

Careful long-term readers of this blog will have been in a better position than most to understand the significance of the court action being taken by Client Earth, FoE and RSPB in relation to the UK government deciding to ignore its obligations to provide access to environmental justice for its citizens under the Aarhus Convention….

Opportunity for 12-16 year olds

    Last summer I was an old green person on a panel of young green people at the WOMAD festival. I was supposed to be mentoring the smiling young man called Josh pictured above but he didn’t need much mentoring. Josh had come to WOMAD from an Action for Conservation Summer Camp and if…

Letter to my MP

Dear Mr Pursglove I am writing to you, again, on the subject of driven grouse shooting. You’ll recall that my e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting received 123,077 signatures last year. There was a ‘rival’ e-petition which has recently closed and I’d just like to update you on the relative strength of both petitions, nationally…

Success for Dukes of North Yorkshire

Thank you to all of the readers of this blog who supported the crowdfunder for habitat management to support Duke of Burgundy butterflies. They did it!  In fact the target of £6000 was smashed with £9,763 raised. Thank you to Steve Bamford for his Guest Blog. And thank you to all who have supported the…

EPIC FAIL 4 – the scale of the fail

We (because I am sure that you, dear reader, signed the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting) have been luxuriating in the glow of the size of support for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting for a few months but now that the ‘rival’ e-petition in support of grouse shooting has closed, on a…