On Saturday it’s the RSPB AGM – have you booked your place online? This is always an interesting event, and usually a somewhat uplifting one, and it’ll be fascinating to hear the RSPB’s new position on gamebird shooting. At least, I assume it will be a new position after over a year of cogitation. The…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Saving Ecuador’s Choco Forest
This autumn appeal from World Land Trust is very special. And if you donate through Andy Langley’s justgiving page then your donation won’t just be doubled, it will be quadrupled in value. Thank you.
Guest blog – Quadrupling your donation to World Land Trust! by Andy Langley
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch this October to raise money for WLT’s ‘Saving Ecuador’s Chocó Forests’ appeal. In October, for the last two years, I have done an all day sponsored birdwatch around Gloucestershire to raise money for World Land…
RSPB’s busy day (2)
The annual RSPB Birdcrime report is published online today – much of the meat of the report is in the Appendices (which I almost missed – search them out). There is a wealth of detail there, including this updated graph which should be widely copied and reused by all. But it is essentially, and sadly,…
RSPB’s busy day (1)
Today the RSPB issued two press releases, one on burning in the uplands, the other on the annual Birdcrime report. It’s a bit unusual for two press releases to come out on the same day but today is the start of the burning season in the uplands and so that timing makes complete sense. I…
RSPB press release – ban the burn
Mayors, councils, local communities, and RSPB unite in support of the call to urgently ban peatland burning on grouse moors. The RSPB is today calling on Government to implement an immediate end to the burning of precious peatlands on moors managed for grouse shooting. The call, which comes on the first day of this year’s…
RSPB Birdcrime report
Birdcrime: The law has failed our birds of prey RSPB Birdcrime report reveals 85 confirmed incidents of bird of prey persecution in the UK in 2019 including shooting, trapping and poisoning RSPB data, peer-reviewed science and population surveys prove these crimes are concentrated on and near driven grouse moors Between 2012-2019 half (49%) of the…
RSPB Green Recovery Plan
Yesterday the RSPB launched this document with a rather ambitious title. In 15 pages, which amount to six and a half pages of text, the RSPB sets out its green recovery plan. As a bunch of ideas they are very much the right ideas. As a plan, it’s hardly a plan. As a report, it’s…
RSPB webinar with Rebecca Pow
I watched this webinar this morning and it was a good event. Thank you to the RSPB for putting it together. It coincided with the launch of what the RSPB call a Green Recovery Plan (I’ll come back to that later) but in many ways this event was a stand-alone event. Beccy Speight, RSPB CEO,…
RSPB press release – the eagle, the satellite tag, the lead sheeting and the river
Recovered satellite tag provides answer to what happens when birds of prey ‘disappear’ on Scotland’s grouse moors A satellite tag removed from a ‘disappeared’ golden eagle has been recovered from a Highland river. The discovery sheds new light on the activities that criminals will go to in a bid to cover up the illegal killing…