Letter to my MP

Dear Mr Pursglove, I wrote to you on 15 September 2020 about three matters of trust. Having received your reply to the last of these three matters recently I’d just like to share my thoughts with you, please. The first matter was that lots of Conservative MPs claimed, in a standard letter sent to hundreds…

#stateofnature campaign – what they say

Nature is trouble. We need new laws to protect it  – Stanley Johnson, Daily Telegraph Promises to stop the decline of nature mean nothing unless action is taken – Steve Backshall, Independent GREEN LAW DEMAND: Boris’ father backs crusade to reverse decline in nature – Daily Express Boris Johnson’s father Stanley calls for nature pledge…

Please sign this petition today

Today a joint campaign is launched by over 50 nature conservation groups – please give it a great start by signing this petition right now: https://bit.ly/3kjLIsX   Unless, of course, you trust the Westminster government to deliver for wildlife without being harried, prodded and poked at every opportunity – personally I don’t trust them and…

Badger cull goes on and on

The Badger cull is not to be effectively banned in 2022, it is to be slightly scaled down it seems to me. You see what you think – click here. We’ve been here before where DEFRA say that culling Badgers is coming to an end and that was followed by a massive increase in culling!…

Ban driven grouse shooting – debate postponed

This email arrived overnight to tell me that debates in Westminster Hall are now postponed due to COVID. It’s a shame that the ‘Don’t criminalise trespass‘ petition won’t get its well-deserved debate and ‘Ban driven grouse shooting‘ also has to wait for a few more weeks for its latest outing. But it makes quite a…

Wildcats again

Apologies for the late posting of this morning’s post – technical issues connecting to the database (whatever that means!). Yesterday’s guest blog by Dominic Woodfield was on a contentious issue – the right way to conserve Scottish wildcats. This is an important issue and I’m grateful to Dominic for writing about it. What doesn’t seem…