That pile of postcards

There’s a big pile of postcards waiting to be delivered to HM The Queen – 20,000 of them, signed by LUSH customers. By the way, this morning I used one of the bath bombs I bought in the LUSH shop in Northampton in the days just before Hen Harrier Day (seems like a long time…

FoI request to Defra

Dear Defra Please supply me with copies of any communications (emails or letters dated April-September 2014) between Defra and the participants in the Defra Hen Harrier Sub-Group of the Uplands Stakeholder Forum concerning Hen Harriers and/or grouse shooting and/or the progress on the drafting of a joint report. Thank you, Dr Mark Avery ([email protected])  …

It’s not very complicated…

…they kill our Stoats our Mountain Hares our Hen Harriers our Peregrines our Badgers our Goshawks our Ravens and much more…         …so that they can kill our Red Grouse.       And this is a ‘sport’ and a ‘business’?       Show your abhorrence at the slaughter in our…

Selfridges – please withdraw Red Grouse from your Food Hall

Dear Selfridges I am glad to hear from some of your customers that you are reviewing the sale of Red Grouse in your Food Hall – this is an excellent move on your part. Well done! You are probably aware of the report from the Ethical Consumer magazine which highlights the environmental problems with intensive…

Natural England – are you still there?

Natural England – for people, for places, for nature. NE, you have been studying Hen Harriers through satellite-tagging for 12 years and yet despite a hard-hitting report A Future for the Hen Harrier in England (2008) you have remained strangely silent about the worsening status of the Hen Harrier in England for six years. In…