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…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
#stateofnature – please sign here
Thank you! to the thousands who have already signed the #stateofnature petition https://bit.ly/3kjLIsX Numerical updates will be available in a while. Supported by this lot:
#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…
Wild Justice Badger petition heads to 90,000 signatures
Have a look at this petition please, and see if you can sign it. And then ask a friend to sign it too. See some of the details on the Wild Justice blog – click here.
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…
May I badger you for your signature please?
Ok, let’s get this petition over the 100,000 signature barrier please.
This one is more like a tortoise than a hare
Quite slow progress, but the 10,000 signatures is approaching.