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!…
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#justice4henharriers – mid evening update
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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 –…
Justice for Hen Harriers – the appeal
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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…
The RSPB and game shooting
Saturday’s welcome announcement from the RSPB that they are reviewing their position over game shooting is just that – welcome. None of us yet knows what that review will look like nor what, if anything, the RSPB has in mind might change; but we can guess. First, you don’t announce a review if your attention…
NEWS: We have been granted leave to appeal brood-meddling
I have been given leave to appeal Hon Justice Lang’s decision that brood-meddling of Hen Harrier nests is legal. The fight goes on! It doesn’t exactly look spectacular online, does it? RSPB has also been given leave to appeal on the same issue. We learned of this by noticing the online decision, as we have…