An RSPB press release: Online sea eagle star re-emerges four years on Mull eagle now in the Highlands A sea eagle, whose movements as a youngster were followed online by people around the world, has been found successfully raising a family in the northern Highlands. Known as Shelly, she was fitted with a satellite…
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Bird Fair books – review – RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife (2nd edition)
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Reviewed by Ian Carter This is clearly a book that has stood the test of time, deemed worthy of a new edition almost ten years on from its initial publication. After a few pages of introduction, the bulk of the book is taken up by the species accounts, roughly equally split into vertebrates, invertebrates…
Trusted trustees (1) – Lord Peel
Lord Peel is the first in a new series of blogs introducing you to the trustees, chairs and patrons of wildlife and environmental charities etc. The idea is to let you know who is running or has a senior, perhaps albeit largely honorary, position in your favourite, or least favourite, charity. I have a few…
NT, grouse shooting and public access
I’m grateful to Andy Beer of the National Trust for his response on this blog this morning. NT, in deciding, rather unnecessarily in my view, to seek ‘partners who can demonstrate how moorland management and shooting can deliver great nature conservation in a way that is compatible with public access’ open up some interesting questions to…
A response from the NT’s Andy Beer
Dear Mark Thank you for the invitation to respond to your blog, which I picked up on Twitter. When we made the decision to terminate the existing tenancy in 2016, we felt that we sent a strong signal about our sense of purpose in delivering the High Peak vision. That sense of purpose remains…
An NT supporter comments on decision to go for grouse shooting
This is a comment posted on an earlier blog post by a committed NT supporter – I thought it worth giving more profile because it’s very powerful. NT must surely realise what they are doing, through their own choice of action, to alienate their supporters and paying members. The offer of a guest blog here…
NT has been prompted into saying something – but not much
This appeared on Twitter a little while ago. The offer is still open to the National Trust to do a better job of explaining why they want to persist with grouse shooting on their land (for they don’t have to). Copy deadline tomorrow evening so that it could appear before Hen Harrier Day and well…
The National Trust grouse shooting muddle
I’m getting feedback from many people about how disappointed they are with the NT position on grouse shooting on their land – the land whose purchase and management we, as NT members, have funded. One guy told me of a conversation he had with a NT staff member where he was told that ‘the upland…
Update on National Trust pro-grouse-shooting controversy
National Trust staff are responding badly to enquiries from their membership about why on earth they are seeking to recruit a new shooting tenant to 4000+ha of their upland landholding in the Peak District. Having ousted their current tenant because of what could be called irreconcilable differences, probably over the future of birds of prey…
Update on National Trust position on grouse shooting in High Peak
The news that the National Trust has completely blanked the petition by local people, including a good number of National Trust members, and is seeking to let a large area of its High Peak moorland to shooting interests has not gone down well. This version of the NT advert appeared on the Moorland Vision blog…