Wild Justice submitted an e-petition to the House of Commons Petitions Committee over 50 days ago – they are clearly very busy but quite why it took so long, I can’t say. But after a flurry of activity yesterday it was published around 09:30 this morning and we started promoting it around 10:30. By 12:30…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Press release – Langholm Initiative
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£300,000 game-changer for southern Scotland’s biggest community buyout as deadline looms A “game-changing” £300,000 has boosted a small community’s attempt to secure southern Scotland’s biggest community land buyout – bringing its funding total to £3.1 million – as a 31 October deadline looms. The Langholm Moor Community Buyout – led by the award-winning Langholm Initiative charity –…
Press release – Trees for Life
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Call for reports of red squirrel sightings across the Highlands to boost reintroduction project Trees for Life is asking people across the Highlands to report sightings of red squirrels for the Great Scottish Squirrel Survey from 21-27 September. The rewilding charity wants to increase sightings of the animals across the region during the week and…
Wild Justice quoted in the Guardian today
Given that the government isn’t clamping down on field sports, you can see why the industry thinks they’ve got powerful mates. The rule of six decision has woken up the Labour party and millions of other people to ask why nothing has been done. The scale of it is just massive, yet partridge and pheasant…
World Land Trust
On Wednesday afternoon I was chairing a meeting of the World Land Trust’s trustees. This was, of course, over the internet with all of its disadvantages and advantages. It’s the third such meeting I’ve chaired and we are all getting used to it. One of our number was dialling in from the Uists but the…
Press release – the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and others
Top UK Seafood Products May Pose Risks to Sharks, Seabirds, Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles ASDA first major retailer to assess impacts of its seafood business on ocean wildlife London – An independent report released today assesses the risks to ocean wildlife from incidental capture in the fisheries that supply seafood to UK supermarket chain…
Gorillas
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On Sunday evening you may have seen David Attenborough and Mountain Gorillas back in 1978 – it seems like yesterday! And the message of Sunday’s programme was that we can make a difference if we actually do the right things. The World Land Trust (of which I am the Chair of Trustees), is working with…
Just for the record…
Natural England (yes, them again) have behaved very peculiarly in not releasing a report by the BTO on impacts of Badgers on birds (see here, here, here and here). Natural England say I can’t see the report which they cited in another document, and I complained, which meant they had to carry out an internal…
RSPB calls out UK’s lost decade for nature – press release
UK failure on international environmental targets revealed by the RSPB on eve of major UN report RSPB analysis of the UK’s self-assessment reveals the picture may be worse than reported, raising doubts some targets have not been met and highlighting areas where the UK has regressed The UK must recognise the opportunity to make urgent changes at home…
RSPB spills the beans on Natural England Hen Harrier cover up
Last week Natural England released the ‘results’ of ‘their’ monitoring of Hen Harriers in England in 2020. Their press release was a bit confused and a bit in error and was packed out with quotes from Natural England’s mates in the shooting industry about what a great thing brood meddling of Hen Harrier nests is,…