Just call me 202000070343

From the Scottish government: Our Reference: 202000070343Your Reference: Another poisoned eagle Dear Dr Mark Avery, Thank you for your correspondence received on 29/07/2020. Your query will be passed to the relevant area for consideration and has been given a reference number of 202000070343. Please quote this number in all correspondence. The Scottish Government aim to…

This petition is flying – Decathlon

For more information see the petition itself and this article from The Ferret. To see what Decathlon themselves say, here is their Twitter account on this subject; Decathlon look as though they are generally a force for quite a lot of good in the world – see here – and so I was inclined to…

Dear First Minister – what you told Nicola Sturgeon (2)

Yes, back to that poisoned White-tailed Eagle found on a grouse moor in a National Park. Why? Because it’s just as shocking and awful this week as it was last week. Nicola Sturgeon and Roseanna Cunningham may feel that they had a bit of a torrid time on this subject last week but, after the…

Hen Harrier Day online – this Saturday

This Saturday will see an online Hen Harrier Day like no other. Hosted by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin, the team that brought you a new, and many say improved, Springwatch, it will have some things and people old and some new, some things borrowed and some things blue, or at least blue-grey. I don’t…

Dear First Minister – it’s me again

Dear First Minister I doubt that you have had the time to look through many, if any, of the emails sent to you this week about the young poisoned White-tailed Eagle found on a grouse moor in the Cairngorms National Park. I’ve seen hundreds of them but that, I know, is a small proportion. What…

Dear First Minister – what you told Nicola Sturgeon

Many readers of this blog and of my newsletter have written to Nicola Sturgeon and/or Roseanna Cunningham about the finding of a poisoned White-tailed Eagle on a grouse moor in the Cairngorms National Park. Here are just some examples of ones that I have been sent. You notice they are all polite, personal and well-written….

Dear First Minister – from Bob Elliot and OneKind

Dear Cabinet Secretary (and copied to First Minister Sturgeon) I write as the Director of OneKind and also from a personal point of view regarding the recent very bad news of yet another poisoned bird of prey discovered on a grouse moor, and my wider concerns about the killing of our wild animals.  You may remember…

Dear First Minister – from Laurence Rose

Dear First MinisterI have just written a book, publication date 1 October, called Framing Nature – conservation and culture. I’ll send you a copy, hoping that you’ll have a few minutes one evening to read the first few lines of the introduction, which opens with the tragic story of the Scottish wildcat – a sad…

Dear First Minister – from Chris Gomersall

Dear First Minister and Cabinet SecretaryMay I ask, respectfully, which image of a white-tailed eagle do you prefer? And which best represents the aspirations of the Scottish government and its attitude to Scotland’s native wildlife and the environment? I am writing to you because of the latest in a long line of sickening and illegal…