Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay

Five weeks today – four more Hen Harrier Day events

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  South: Venue: RSPB Arne, Wareham, BH20 5BJ Start: 11am Speakers: Chris Packham, and tbc For more info: @HenHarrierDaySouth   Highland: Venue: Community Hall, Boat of Garten, PH24 3BL Start: 1pm Speakers:  Mark Avery, Andy Wightman MSP, Allan Bantick, Harry Huyton (One Kind), Ian Thomson (RSPB), Peter Argyle (Cairngorms NP) For more info: Facebook, @HHDayHighlands  …

Five weeks today – four Hen Harrier Days

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Sheffield: Venue: Devonshire Green, Sheffield City Centre, S3 7SW Start: 11am Speakers: Natalie Bennett, Iolo Williams, Mark Avery, Ross Cameron For more info: Facebook   Rainham Marshes: Venue: RSPB Rainham Marshes, Purfleet, RM19 1SZ Start: 11am Speakers: Chris Packham, Mark Thomas (RSPB), Rob Sheldon (BAWC) For more info: Facebook   Tayside and Central Scotland: Venue:…

Hen Harrier Day Sheffield, 5 August

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Good news! Sheffield Environment is organising a Hen Harrier Day event in central Sheffield on Saturday 5 August. A big ‘Thank you!’ to them. I’ll be there, and at an event at Boat of Garten the next day. It wouldn’t be Hen Harrier day without a visit to the Peak District area. It’s a great…

Hen Harrier Day 2017 – an update

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The Hen Harrier Day website – maintained by Birders Against Wildlife Crime – is the place to keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events, but here is an update. Hen Harrier Day celebrates the beauty of this wonderful bird and highlights its threatened status which is almost entirely due to wildlife crime.  Hen Harriers…

A good petition to sign

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‘Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to sponsor a comprehensive and independent study into the full economic impacts of driven grouse shooting.’ This petition in Scotland is pushing at an open door – but it is certainly still worth showing that you support it. Please sign it and get your friends…

Yet another letter to my MP

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Dear Mr Pursglove Because we might have another general election some time fairly soon, I’d like to just share these thoughts with you, please. I was surprised, in a way, to read that the Conservative manifesto promised a free vote on fox hunting (and the Prime Minister voiced her support for it). You may remember…

Another letter to my MP

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Dear Mr Pursglove Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 I am very concerned at the impacts of this piece of legislation on the ability of civil society to participate in the democratic process. You may have seen that over 50 charities wrote to all party members concerned about the ‘chilling…

Letter to my MP

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Dear Mr Pursglove As this is the first time I have written to you since the general election last week, I must congratulate you on a personal level for holding your seat of Corby and east Northants (despite my and many others’ best attempts to get the vote out for Labour and Beth Miller).  Given…

Hen Harrier Day politicians

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A week today we will have the result of the 2017 general election.  It’s your choice.  Today I’ll be writing about individual constituencies and candidates. Over the three Hen Harrier Days to date we have seen a few politicians attend. I’d like to see them all re-elected, or in one case elected, on 8 June….