Standing up for Nature
And so we move from Day 1 to Day 2 of this crowdfunder – great start. Thank you! People are so generous. And there is £3900+ still to be transferred from a previous successful case – I’ve just nudged Crowdjustice asking them to do this quickly please. Here is the link to the crowdfunder –…
We’re jogging along with this crowdfunder – thank you for all your support. Over 144 supporters already and we’ve hardly started. It would be nice to get this out of the way fairly quickly though – you cannot imagine how often I check it! It’s very distracting. Here is the link to the crowdfunder –…
Thank you everyone, just over 100 of us, who have contributed to this crowdfunder since 11am. Pretty amazing – thank you. Paul £25 – A most important case involving the prevention of vandalism to my favourite bird by DEFRA decree masked as conservation. Liz £40 – Wonder what being out of the EU will do…
We’re going back to court to fight for Hen Harriers – this time to the Court of Appeal to challenge the judge’s decision in our judicial review over brood meddling. These things take quite a while but this is not the time to give up. We have a good chance of winning on appeal (not…
The date is set for our (and the RSPB’s) appeal against the judgment in our judicial reviews challenging the legality of brood meddling. I challenged the legality of Natural England’s licensing of this otherwise illegal act on the grounds that there are legal alternatives to brood meddling that Natural England unlawfully ignored and failed to…
Tomorrow morning, from 09:30, the Scottish Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee will take evidence from three members of the Werritty group whose report on licensing of grouse moor management was so inadequate. The three members are the Chair, Prof Alan Werritty, and Prof Colin Reid and Prof Alison Hestor. It will be interesting…
Two Cambridge colleges, at either end of The Backs, have recently announced their new ‘Masters’. At the up-town end of the waterway, and said to be the richest per student capita college of all, St John’s, the new Master will be Heather Hancock. Mrs Hancock has featured in this blog now and again over the…
On University Challenge (Christmas series) the other night there was a question about which species is ‘… said by the RSPB to be the UK’s most intensively persecuted bird, partly because of illegal killing by gamekeepers on grouse moors’. Neither team got Hen Harrier (even though the scientific name had been given and some other…
Have a look at Lisbet Rausing‘s article, Carbon carnage: the real cost of grouse-shooting, in Standpoint – click here.
The Werritty report into grouse shooting was published yesterday after an unconscionable two year period. I accept that Prof Werritty was ill during this period but this report is not an impressive document and will not command much respect. It does give the Scottish government a free hand to do whatever it wants to do…