This charming Hen Harrier arrived in the post from one of my favourite Twitter accounts: @chunkymark aka Artist Taxi Driver. Thank you very much. I’m expecting @chunkymark to sign up to Findlay Wilde’s thunderclap – which has passed a social reach of 6million (!!!!) And you never know, he might be in…
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Last chance to sign
Les Wallace’s petition to the Scottish Parliament closes today – with over 1100 signatures it has done well. Please sign to help it run over the finishing line… ‘Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to sponsor a comprehensive and independent study into the full economic impacts of driven grouse shooting.’…
Thunderous Findlay Wilde
A social media thunderclap is a device where a single message is sent out to the social media contacts of everyone who signs up. So if you follow me, @markavery, on Twitter, or if you are my friend on Facebook, then you will get this message at 09:30 on 12 August: ‘I want to see…
Responding to PDNP consultation – some hints
The Peak District National Park wants to know what you think – so you should tell them. This is the consultation document and this is the 52-question questionnaire. Here’s a tip: if you are planning on responding then it’s a good idea to open these two things in two separate tabs so that you can…
Peak District snares on the regional news this evening
Following this morning’s blog about snares in the Peak District, the Hunt Investigation team’s film was used on the BBC regional news, and the footage shown includes a masked man shooting into a deep pit and then further footage of what seems to be the same masked man dragging off a dead badger. Click here…
BASC doesn’t want us to see this film
This is a bit odd. Almost a year ago a filmmaker approached me (and others) to be filmed about the campaign against driven grouse shooting. I agreed to be filmed and I thought that the film might appear after the Westminster Hall debate. I’d almost forgotten all about it by now. I was sent the…
Hen Harriers on WatO
If you were listening to the World at One today (starting at 38 minutes into piece) you will have heard a long piece on Hen Harriers. Well done WatO! And well done RSPB (especially Ian Thomson and Blanaid Denman). The bird in question looks like these images by Gordon Yates – super bird isn’t…
Not telling, yet…
I emailed the NE Media Office this morning with the following simple questions: Has NE consented culling of Lesser Black-backed Gull in the Bowland Fells SSSI for this year? Was an appropriate assessment made of the impact on the conservation interest of the Bowland Fells SPA before any consent was issued? Please may I see…
Sunday book review – The Hen Harrier (2nd edition) by the late Donald Watson
This is a classic book – and one which was given to me by a girlfriend as a Christmas present 40 years ago. It has been with me ever since and right now it sits within reach on the shelf above my desk. I was asked to write the Foreword for this book and was…
Five weeks today
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