Here is the response to the email from the previous blog post: Sorry for the delay in my response. I have been getting some advice on the issue from our environmental health team. As you are well aware heather burning is a legal activity subject to the Heather and Grass (Burning) Regulations (as amended) 1987….
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Less burning not moor burning, please
I was copied into this email recently. I’ve disguised the names and location as the complaint is a general one which I have seen many times before – but here it is very well-expressed. However, I might point out that I have lived on the ********* for 30 years and I know the regulations. I…
Blanket bog maps
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Dear Natural EnglandThis is a request for information under the FoI/EIR regulations. Please reply within the 20-day maximum allowed for such a straightforward request.This is a follow-up to my requests 4438 (to which NE responded on 27 November 2018) and 4520 (to which NE responded on 18 January 2019) about datasets on deep peat and…
Moorland Association demands payment
The following is an extract from the Moorland Association response to a DEFRA consultation on burning of blanket bogs, peatlands and heather moors. Payments, payments, grants, payments, payments… What does the Moorland Association want? It’s pretty clear – they want either to be left alone to damage priority habitats as they have done for decades…
Red Squirrel in spring trap
This distressing image, taken yesterday, is of a Red Squirrel caught in a spring trap near an area of game shooting in Scotland. Unfortunately, although the SSPCA attended, the animal died. The police are informed. I won’t say more at this stage.
Are things getting better on raptor persecution?
Are things getting better – is raptor persecution decreasing? Let’s start from the basics. Killing birds of prey is illegal, and has been since 1954 (and partly before that). Most killing of birds of prey is carried out by people with jobs in the game management industries where birds of prey are seen, partly rightly,…
Early draft for Red67
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A reader has discovered this early draft of the Hen Harrier text for Red Sixty Seven – I prefer Iolo Williams’s version.
Farcical Villiers visit to flood-stricken Calder Valley
I like the Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker – have a look at what they write about the DEFRA Secretary of State’s (now former Secretary of State’s) visit to flood-stricken Hebden Bridge – click here
Banning driven grouse shooting – we are in the end game
While we wait for the Petitions Committee to be formed anew after the general election, and then have a meeting, and then decide on when to debate this matter, the world must look like a hostile place for the grouse shooting industry. The recent floods point again to land use in the uplands needing to…
#justice4henharriers – crowdfunder almost there!
The Hen Harrier is an amazing bird, and the image I’ve used here from Gordon Yates is an amazing image, and you are amazingly generous people. We are almost there and, until 11am today, we are still on Day 2. Thank you very much to over 250 donors. Another 23 fivers will get us there!…