BASC former Chief Executive, Richard Ali, was dismissed for gross misconduct (full report with lots of gory details). Remember BASC is not a charity, so the Charity Commission holds no sway here. These people have guns.
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Bird flu update
New, reported, positive cases of H5N8 identified in wild birds have settled down to just one each week – last week’s was another Whooper Swan in Norfolk. There seems to be a shift in positive cases in wild birds in Europe to represent more Mute Swans and Whooper Swans – although since testing of living…
Guest blog – Are Lobsters animals? by Maisie Tomlinson
Maisie is the Campaign Director and co-founder of Crustacean Compassion. She has previously worked at World Animal Protection, where she successfully co-coordinated the EU Supporting Better Dairy campaign in coalition with Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream and Compassion in World Farming, for whom she is also a school speaker. She is currently a Sociology PhD candidate…
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I enjoyed attending the Bristol Ornithological Club’s 50th anniversary dinner last week. I gave a little speech and everyone thanked me, and I thanked them, and they thanked me, and I thanked them – it was a thankfest. We met in Bristol Zoo where the health and safety advice had the unusual twist of ‘…and…
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….