Alleged illegal killing of a protected hen harrier Court proceedings against a former gamekeeper, accused of shooting a protected hen harrier, have been dropped by the Crown Office, who have indicated that after considering all of the relevant material they could not use RSPB Scotland video evidence to support the prosecution in court. Since the…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
NGO letter prompted May to go to the country
Last week, 11 environmental NGOs wrote to TM the PM and then she called a general election. Here is the letter: Dear Prime Minister, We are alarmed by recent media reports suggesting that the UK’s commitments to tackling climate change and ending the illegal wildlife trade could be watered down to secure post-Brexit trade…
Press release from the Environmental Funders Network
Starts: Caroline Lucas and Sir David Attenborough top list of ‘Environmental Heroes’ for Earth Day London, 19th April 2017: Ahead of Earth Day 2017 (22 April), CEOs from the UK’s leading environmental charities have voted for their ‘Environmental Heroes’ as part of the Pulse Survey conducted by the Environmental Funders Network. Caroline Lucas,…
Still on the Brink
The news that the National Lottery is helping to fund the conservation of threatened species of animal and plant in England is very welcome – I almost wish I’d ever bought a lottery ticket. There’s a little bit of confusion about which species are in and out as there are 20 main species (and the…
Who said this?
‘A 21st century charity must rediscover the urgency, passion and anger of the volunteers that started the great causes in the Victorian period. Our organisation depends entirely on our supporters and our future depends on our ability to empower them to act and generate ownership of the strategic direction of the organisation. We will find…
Guest blog – The National Trust and Nature by Simon Pryor
Simon Pryor is the National Trust’ Natural Environment Director and is responding to my blog (and your comments) last week. Hi Mark I’m glad you wrote a blog on the announcement of out ‘ambitions for nature’; and as we’d all expect, you asked some probing and provocative questions! So thanks…
The RSPB on driven grouse shooting
Martin Harper has penned (or keyboarded) an interesting BB eye in this month’s British Birds magazine. It is entitled ‘Why it is in the driven grouse industry’s interest to clean up its own act’ and it rehearses the long list of ills with intensive management of driven grouse moors with which so many of us…
Statement from Glenbuchat Estate – and a video too
In response to an RSPB press release the small North Glenbuchat Estate has issued the following statement through Media House International (a leading public relations consultancy providing a range of communication services combined with issues, crisis management and public affairs): And here is the link to the video.
Missing eagle 338 – RSPB Press Release
Starts: The RSPB has today issued an appeal for information following the disappearance of a satellite tagged golden eagle near Strathdon in Aberdeenshire. The young male eagle was fitted with a transmitter by a licensed raptor study group member, before it fledged from a nest in Deeside in the summer of 2016 (see image…
North of the border
The National Trust for Scotland is a separate entity from the National Trust (England, Wales and NI) and therefore doesn’t impinge on my consciousness very much. But I was interested to see that it has been carrying out quite a dramatic down-size (see here, here, here). And even more interested to see that it’s Chief…