It’s only early November but hoh! hoh! hoh! it’s time for Christmas adverts. The first one (#BusterTheBoxer), from multi-million pound business John Lewis (@JohnLewisRetail, not the poor chap @JohnLewis) has upset some ‘real country people’ but is putting a smile on the faces of many more people across the country. Have you seen it? Deliberately…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
RSPB getting tough?
There are two recent RSPB blogs which are well worth a read – aren’t they all, always? Martin Harper’s blog is pretty outspoken as these quotes will make clear (but please read it all): it was a deeply frustrating debate – especially to the 123,000 that called for a ban and of course those seeking…
Guest blog – Impressions from the RSPB AGM by Lyn Ebbs
By education and training I am a microbiologist and worked in the NHS and biotech sector. I finished my working career in clinical research and patient safety in the pharmaceutical industry, so am a firm believer in evidence-based science. I’ve been a member of the RSPB for many years and started volunteering for them when…
World Land Trust – Big Match Fortnight
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We are in Big Match Fortnight – a period where your donation to the World Land Trust appeal to protect a habitat corridor for Indian Elephants will be doubled! I’m a council member of WLT so I get to see some of the excellent work that goes on behind the scenes to protect wildlife, with…
HOT expecting a hot AGM on Sunday
It’s not as though the Hawk and Owl Trust is heavily publicising its AGM on Sunday is it? You have to look pretty hard to find any information about it at all on the HoT website. It’s verging on the secretive I’d say. If you put ‘AGM’ into the website’s search engine you find lots…
I worry about them…
This is Brian – Brian is another Hen Harrier who has gone missing in his first few months of life when travelling around the driven grouse moors of one of our National Parks. You can read about it here and here. I’m a bit worried about some other Hen Harriers. First we have Finn… …no,…
State of Nature 2
I was in North America when the last (and the first) State of Nature report was published but I wrote about it on my return. Last week I was at the launch of the latest version and I’ve already written about some of what went on there – but how about the report itself? It’s…
Good for the Wildlife Trusts!
This new e-petition is trending at over 1000 signatures an hour at the moment. I signed it when it was at about 1500 signatures but it is flying. Now, it is a very sensible e-petition, but interestingly its proposer is Simon King, the Wildlife Trusts’ President Emeritus (!) and is supported by the Wildlife Trusts….
BTO Press release
Sir Ian Botham told the world on the Today programme about a grouse moor, surveyed by the BTO that had oodles and oodles of Lapwing, Curlew and Golden Plover. Apparently the BTO knows nothing about it… British Trust for Ornithology Press Statement – Pennine Grouse Moor survey report A bird survey that was reported to…
RSPB humming Shania Twain
The RSPB today turned its back on the failing and doomed Defra Hen Harrier plan – and quite right too. Humming a Shania Twain song, ‘Dance with the one that brought you‘ the RSPB turned its back on the grouse moor owners and came back to us. Thank you RSPB. Where does that leave the…