Campaigning organisations Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors and the League Against Cruel Sports have welcomed a commitment from Yorkshire Water to change the way it manages its land. Instead of automatically renewing the leases for grouse shooting, the utility company – which is Yorkshire’s largest landowner – will instead review each one to decide if…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
RSPB on bird statistics
Following yesterday’s publication of the latest figures on some UK bird populations the RSPB has published a blog. Here’s a quote: As you would expect, these indicators confirm the dire warnings about Britain’s nature reported in the State of Nature report published on 3rd October this year.The small decline in the combined index disguises substantial…
Sunday book review – Grassland plants of the British and Irish lowlands by Peter Stroh et al.
I’m no botanist, so for all I know this book could be riddled with awful errors, but it is a lovely, lovely book. In a 400-page book, 300 of the pages are given over to about 100 species accounts; each with a distribution map, a photograph of the species, a photograph of the habitat and…
Wildlife groups call for end to burning of upland bogs
Twenty six Wildlife and Countryside Link members recently wrote to DEFRA calling for an end to the burning of upland bogs (primarily for intensive grouse shooting). Click here for the letter and click here for the accompanying press release.
Farming Today on RSPB and game shooting
Martin Harper was interviewed on Farming Today this morning. Martin did well but it was one of those unsatisfactory interviews where Anna Hill simply got lots of things wrong – listen here from about 9 minutes into the programme through until the end. In the introduction (which Martin won’t have heard until today) Hill says…
Report on the RSPB’s AGM by Lyn Ebbs
Lyn Ebbs is a scientist by education and has been a member of the RSPB for many years and volunteered for them since she retired. Lyn and her husband, Richard, received RSPB President’s Awards at the RSPB AGM last year. Lyn is actively involved with wildlife campaigns and has attended Hen Harrier Day rallies every…
RSPB review of game shooting policy noticed by pro-shooting organisations – shock!
I’m glad the Telegraph and Mail noticed something was happening but I suspect they only noticed when a press release from the Countryside Alliance arrived in their inboxes. It’s good to see Tim Bonner at his emollient best: Disappointingly this seems to be the final step in the RSPB’s long journey to becoming an anti-shooting…
The RSPB and game shooting
Saturday’s welcome announcement from the RSPB that they are reviewing their position over game shooting is just that – welcome. None of us yet knows what that review will look like nor what, if anything, the RSPB has in mind might change; but we can guess. First, you don’t announce a review if your attention…
NEWS: RSPB prepares to shift position on gamebird shooting
At yesterday’s RSPB AGM, Kevin Cox, the Chair of Council made the following announcement; There is growing concern about the environmental impact (including for carbon, water and biodiversity) of intensive forms of game bird shooting and associated land management practices. This includes both driven grouse moor management (which involves shooting our native red grouse) and…
Amazingly interesting resource from RSPB
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Where do Hen Harriers travel? Click here to see the answers for many RSPB satellite-tagged birds from the EU (remember them?)-funded LIFE project.