Teetering on the brink of 50,000 signatures

The Wild Justice e-petition against the Badger cull is within 100 signatures of that 50,000 threshold which represents the half way point to a Westminster Hall debate. The petition closes on 24 March 2021 – today is Day 9. I feel we are like3ly to getto 100,000 signatures eventually. I can tell you now, I’d…

A record September on this blog

September’s 137,000+ page views of this blog was the second highest monthly score ever (only surpassed by August 2016 at 177,000) and the 37,980 unique users was also the second highest ever just a smidgeon under April 2016’s 38128. That makes seven months out of nine with over 100,000 pageviews this year, and six months…

RSPB’s busy day (2)

The annual RSPB Birdcrime report is published online today – much of the meat of the report is in the Appendices (which I almost missed – search them out). There is a wealth of detail there, including this updated graph which should be widely copied and reused by all. But it is essentially, and sadly,…

RSPB’s busy day (1)

Today the RSPB issued two press releases, one on burning in the uplands, the other on the annual Birdcrime report. It’s a bit unusual for two press releases to come out on the same day but today is the start of the burning season in the uplands and so that timing makes complete sense. I…