Did you dip in to Hen Harrier Day online 2020? This is what you could have seen and listened to. It’s an amazing collection of science, culture and conservation. And a very fitting and diverse programme with top presenters Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin weaving all the strands together. Click here to view. And there…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Hen Harrier Day online tomorrow
Hen Harrier Day Online goes live at 10am tomorrow – introduced by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin. To watch through the day visit the Hen Harrier Day YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/HenHarrierDayUK Alan Cranston, Chair of Hen Harrier Action, said:“The hen harrier is a symbol for our wider concerns about nature in the uplands and that is…
Scottish petition – Beavers
Trees for Life has launched a petition to urge the Scottish Government to relocate Beavers to suitable areas rather than licencing their killing.
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…