Standing up for Nature
Here is the email chain, or most of it, that prompted this sensible briefing from Forest Enterprise England on their decision to use non-toxic ammunition on their land for the culling of deer and wild boar. It’s not very interesting really but you can see that this blog is read by people other than your…
‘There is a widespread consensus now that there is no safe level [of lead]’ BBC Radio 4: In their element – lead listen again here. The striking thing is the passage where the point is made that as techniques have improved it has become possible to demonstrate that lower and lower amounts of lead still…
This article by the Countryside Alliance is quite interesting but not very convincing. The CA says that it believes that the most pressing issue for shooting is to self-regulate. I think that we can take that to mean that they are scared of anyone else regulating them – and so they should be because…
Dear Dr. Avery While it is undoubtedly the case that lead is a “bad thing” in general I have one good example of where the removal of significant amounts of lead from the environment has led to some very unwelcome environmental harm locally. For several years now, following the purchase of our home here in…
The Daily Telegraph today. Findlay Wilde’s blog of 4 December. Well done Findlay! You have made it to ‘activist’ in the national press – only a couple of steps to go to get to ‘eco-zealot’. An unnamed MP – what odds would you give that it was Simon Hart (ex chief exec and well-paid…