Saturday’s election of NT Council members may be just as significant as the vote on the members’ resolution on trail hunting. Although the Council members don’t get to decide very much they do elect the Chair of Trustees and the trustees from their number – so they elect the inner circle who do make most…
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National Trust members vote to keep trail hunting
At Saturday’s NT AGM there was a very close vote which led to the members’ resolution to end trail hunting being rejected by 30,985 votes to 30,686 votes – my vote was in the losing category. That’s very close – but I am getting used to being on just the wrong side of close votes….
A good evening with BTO & SWLA
I missed last year’s BTO evening with the SWLA so I was glad to make this one. Always a good evening with an interesting mixture of people. The Mall Galleries is a pretty good setting for an event and it was filled on Wednesday evening. I’m sure the artwork was superb but I hardly saw…
A phenomenon – Stuart Housden
Stuart Housden (above, 9th from the left and sixth from the right) retires from the RSPB and I was glad to attend his farewell do in Edinburgh last week. I thought I was at the RSPB for quite a long time, 25 years, but Stuart was there for 10 years before I breezed in and…
RSPB AGM
If the Conservative Party wants to know how to run an event then they could ask the RSPB. I’m not sure what would count as the Leader’s speech but none of Miranda Krestovnikoff (President), Steve Ormerod (outgoing Chair) or Mike Clarke (Chief Exec) did any coughing or were handed P45s, and no letters fell out…
Calling National Trust members
National Trust members have an opportunity to vote on a couple of important issues, and on their new Council members, in person at the NT AGM on 21 October 2017 or by other means before then. I voted a few days ago online and you have until midnight on Friday 13 October to cast your…
RSPB press release
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RSPB Scotland comment on Government response to environmental justice consultation Commenting on the publication today of the Scottish Government’s response to its consultation on environmental justice, Lloyd Austin, RSPB Scotland’s Head of Conservation Policy, said: “RSPB Scotland has long argued for improvements to Scotland’s environmental justice systems, welcomed the debate sparked by the Scottish Government’s…
RSPB press release – Perthshire estate
RSPB Scotland welcomes SNH announcement of restrictions on Perthshire sporting estate Video evidence supporting restrictions revealed RSPB Scotland has welcomed the announcement by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) today of two restrictions imposed on the use of General Licenses on a sporting estate in Perthshire and on an un-named individual. These follow previous similar restrictions imposed…
BBS 2016
This report of bird population trends as measured by the Breeding Bird Survey (and Waterways Breeding Bird Survey) is the result of, first, the voluntary work of around 3000 volunteers (including me) who collected the data, followed by the analytical and presentational skills of BTO staff aided by JNCC and the RSPB. There are two…
Trusted trustees (3) – Sir John Randall
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Former Conservative MP for Uxbridge (1997 by-election until 2010), and then for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (until 2015), Sir John Randall is a birder and trustee of the RSPB – although he has just had to resign after being made the Number 10 Policy Unit’s Special Advisor on the environment. John was a parliamentarian with…