Writing to my MP (2) – Big Garden Birdwatch

Dear Andy This is the second of my monthly letters to you and serves also as a means for me to wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas! In just over a month’s time, on the weekend of 25 and 26 January is the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. On that weekend, over…

Writing to my MP – 1

I’ve been telling people that they should write to their MPs as I travel around the country giving talks.  Politics is at the heart of almost all solutions to environmental problems. So, I wouldn’t ask you to do it if I wouldn’t do it myself, so here is the first of monthly letters that I…

What can one person do?

I was recently sent this link by a friend of my daughter – it tells an inspiring story about a man who planted a forest. Have you planted your forest yet? Have you started? People quite often ask me whether I miss the RSPB and my usual answer is along the lines of : No….

MP letters

I told you that I went to see my MP Louise Mensch a little while ago and she said that she would write to the Treasury asking for the evidence that the Habitats Regulations are a brake on the UK economy and to Defra asking about implementation of the Birds Directive (given the decline in…