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…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
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…
Badger e-petition reaches 300,00 signatures
In a remarkable outpouring of public concern an epetition calling on the government to cease its cull of badgers has, just now, passed 300,000 signatures (on the last day before it closes at 0738 tomorrow morning).
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….
E-petition on licensing grouse moors
After two weeks this epetition has reached 2600 signatures. Have you signed yet? Have you asked your friends to sign? Think about it, please.
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…