Yesterday, at midnight, Rob Sheldon could stop looking at how his e-petition was doing and relax. His e-petition to ban the use of toxic lead ammunition had passed 17,000 signatures and had run its six-month course. 17,051 is a perfectly respectable total – and is probably more than Rob had hoped for at the beginning,…
Category: Lead
Make toxic lead ammunition a thing of the past
This is your last chance to sign Rob Sheldon’s e-petition to ban the use of toxic lead ammunition. A few more signatures would push this past the 17,000 signatures – a pretty good achievement. A reminder: this e-petition is supported by the RSPB this e-petition is supported…
Bit of a round up
I’ll be at Housmans bookshop this evening at 7pm Fineshade Wood features in this week’s Private Eye the NFU voted to be pro Remain in the EU referendum the Defra Press Office has not got back to me with an answer on whether ministers sign off responses to e-petitions my MP has not yet got…
Richard Ali writes…badly!
BASC Chief Executive, Richard Ali, wrote to the BBC yesterday (presumably to BBC Wildlife magazine). It can’t really be a letter that BASC expects to be published because it looks thrown together, is badly argued (though is very argumentative), is long and rambling, and has a split infinitive in its first line. Ali is complaining…
RSPB does something
The RSPB included a note in its April e-newsletter asking its members to sign Rob Sheldon’s e-petition on banning toxic lead ammunition. this was wittily called ‘Last chance to take the lead’. If this heralds a month of frantic activity on this subject from the RSPB, whose agreed policy is that there should be a…