Wild Justice has produced three blogs, so far, on the Hen Harrier Day event on Sunday. Here they all are (more coming later): HHDay 2019 (1) HHDay 2019 (2) HHDay 2019 (3)
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Press release from Campaign for Freedom of Information
Government urged to drop post-Brexit prohibition on environmental disclosure Thirty six leading environmental, open government and other organisations have urged the government to drop a secrecy provision from draft legislation to improve environmental protection after Brexit. The organisations say the prohibition on disclosure “is wholly at odds with the public’s right to information” under existing…
YFTB – still got the wrong species
The You Forgot the Birds website still has that image, a gorgeous image, of a male Montagu’s Harrier to illustrate its Hen Harrier page alongside a more difficult identification problem of what is probably a 2nd summer Pallid Harrier. Maybe Hen Harrier Day would be a good time to get them both fixed.
RSPB press release
Over 10 hen harrier chicks satellite tagged this summer RSPB’s Hen Harrier LIFE project has fitted more than 10 young hen harriers with satellite tags this summer in Scotland. The EU LIFE funded project tagged birds from the Borders to the Highlands, with the generous support and assistance from of a variety of partners, volunteers,…
RSPB press release
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One good tern deserves … four others as rare birds hatch on the Welsh coast Good news on The Skerries, off Anglesey, where four roseate tern chicks have hatched to two pairs of the elegant seabirds This is the highest number of roseate chicks on The Skerries for 29 years The successful hatching and fledgling is…
Guest blog – World Land Trust by Paul Sterry
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Paul Sterry has an academic background in freshwater biology and is a passionate conservationist. He has been writing about natural history and photographing wildlife for the last 40 years, with an emphasis on the British scene. Bird Photographer of the Year and World Land Trust World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity that…
Wild Justice and general licences
Wild Justice wrote to Natural England and Defra last week to warn them that legal action would follow next year if they do not take account of the legal issues raised in the Wild Justice legal challenge of general licences (see Wild Justice blog with details). Given the time that the legal process takes, and…
Wild Justice and Bird Fair invite Fieldsports Channel to ask their questions
Chris Packham and I were invited to the Game Fair today to face questions, in front of a Game Fair audience, from Charlie Jacoby of the Fieldsports Channel – and then the invitation was rudely withdrawn by the likes of the Countryside Alliance, BASC and GWCT (see here, here, here). After a bit of fixing…
RSPB press release
Wasp discovered by volunteer at RSPB Loch Lomond is a first record for Scotland Sam Buckton is a volunteer at RSPB Scotland Loch Lomond. He set himself a challenge to record 250 new species for the reserve this summer. So far, he has found 315. One of the species is a first record for Scotland,…
RSPB begins to lose patience with grouse shooters
The RSPB held a ‘debate’ on the future of grouse shooting in Westminster last week. You can listen, though it is difficult to hear everything, and it is quite long, to the ‘debate’ here. It’s a pity there isn’t a video because then we could all check on the accuracy of the reports that the…