Dear Natural England, In November 2017 you told me that the investigation of the gull cull in Bowland was entering its final stages and that you would answer my questions (of mid July 2017 and subsequently) ‘once the investigation is concluded’. On 11 June you told me that ‘the investigation is in its final stages’….
Category: THE STATUTORY AGENCIES: NE, EA, FE etc
Raven update
I was very pleased to see that the crowdfunder to support the judicial review of SNH’s daft licensing of a Raven cull ‘to see what happens’ was fully supported. That is good news. And if you haven’t signed this petition yet then please sign it now. Meanwhile, reports suggest that some similar nonsense is going…
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Raven support
The crowdfunder for a legal challenge of SNH’s licensing of a Raven cull has made great progress – over 16,000 pounds and counting. I donated to this crowdfunder on its first day and I’d really like it to meet its target of 25k. So I’ve gone back and given it a top-up from me. Can you help…
Raven crowdfunder launched – please support
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In a bold but sensible move, Ruth Tingay and the Scottish Raptor Study Group are seeking leave for a judicial review of SNH’s careless and foolish licensing of a Raven cull in Scotland. Please support it with your dosh – I have.
Open letter to Andrew Sells
Dear Andrew I hope you are well but I fear that the organisation of which you are the Chair, is gravely sick. Natural England seems to have caught a disease whose symptoms are an inability to work for nature conservation in the uplands but instead to align itself with one small sectional interest, grouse shooting,…
Wuthering Moors 66 – Natural England you have lost the trust of the public
Nobody really trusts politicians these days (which personally I think is sad because there are some good ones out there) but until recently we have trusted government agencies. In nature conservation, in the olden days, some of the greatest nature conservationists of their time, of any time, worked in and led the statutory agencies –…
Dear Mr Cantlay
Dear Mr Cantlay Your standard letter on the subject of the Raven cull, which I received yesterday, is a poor thing. Whoever drafted it for you isn’t doing a good job. Your letter slides around the subject in a most unappealing manner. You seem to want to justify the licensing of your Raven cull on…
Raven cull – hopeless SNH
Many of us have had this standard letter from the chair of SNH: Thank you for your recent correspondence on the subject of the issue of a research licence to the Strathbraan Community Collaboration for Waders. I welcome that so many people in this country care passionately about the welfare of all our wildlife…
My ‘Raven cull’ email to SNH
Dear Mr Cantlay Everyone makes mistakes, but I’m surprised that SNH has made this one. I’m also surprised that it hasn’t corrected it after a week of public outcry over your decision to license a mass cull of Ravens. SNH’s decision has damaged Scotland’s environmental reputation at a time when the Scottish Government has in…