Look what came through the post the other day. Shall we now see the Woodland Trust campaigning to protect the Dormice of Fineshade Wood?
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Two AGMs – RSPB
Ahead of today’s RSPB AGM, Martin Harper posted a very robust blog about the RSPB’s position on driven grouse shooting (click here). Just as I did yesterday, Martin asked the question whether there are any grouse moors out there that do all the right things. He clearly doesn’t know of any (which makes licensing a…
Two AGMs – H&OT
Today it is the Hawk and Owl Trust’s AGM. On the H&OT website is their annual report which has these interesting lines in it: ‘For the Hawk and Owl Trust positive habitat management away from the grouse moors will be one of the actions that will hold the key to the future of the hen…
Big Match Fortnight for World Land Trust
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I’m on the Council of the excellent World Land Trust and I’d like to ask you to support them with a donation in the next two weeks. During Big Match Fortnight (1-15 October) any money you and I donate will be matched by kind donors up to a limit of £250,000 – so ‘our’ £250k…
Guest Blog – The Asia vulture crisis, an update by Chris Bowden of RSPB
Chris Bowden is RSPB’s Globally Threatened Species Officer, and Programme Manager of the consortium of ‘SAVE’ partners – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction. Chris has worked for RSPB on various threatened species, (after his Woodlark and Nightjar research days on Thetford Forest), notably the Northern Bald Ibis based in Morocco (for which he still…
Reply from Mike Clarke (CEO RSPB) and Martin Spray (CEO WWT)
Dear Mark Thanks for your email regarding our work on lead. We agree that there is clear and compelling evidence of the impact of lead ammunition on wildlife, as well as on human health, which is why our organisations support a ban. As you know and acknowledged in your blog, both our organisations (along with…
Just wondering…
The RSPB is being criticised by the usual suspects (The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and also the shooting press) for the number of Hen Harrier nests that failed on its watch last season. We’ve been through this several times recently, including getting the Daily Telegraph to correct its earlier version and to apologise for…
Farming fit for the Future?
This is the vision document for farming launched at the Wildlife and Countryside Link event yesterday lunch time. It’s certainly worth a read. The Wildlife Link organisations which signed up to this document (including the National Trust, RSPB, Wildlife Trusts, Woodland Trust, WWF, FoE and many others) would like to see farming which is: Better…
A friendly challenge to Martin Spray (WWT) and Mike Clarke (RSPB)
(This blog is long!) Dear Martin and Mike Your two organisations deserve huge credit for the role that they have played in getting us to a position where the prospect of lead ammunition being banned, on human health, animal welfare and nature conservation grounds is very high. This has taken years, and consumed years and…
An RSPB summer reception – Minister gushes about RSPB
Yesterday afternoon I attended an RSPB summer reception in the palace of Westminster. It was a good event but a little bit light on parliamentarians. However, there were a some big-hitters in the room and some very good words in the short speeches. Our host was Baroness Parminter who is a considerable force for good…