I’ve been away for a few days and found this Hen Harrier hat. I also found a Hen Harrier nearby (though a ringtail). Where was I?
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Looking forward to…
Natural England should be replying to Wild Justice’s Pre-Action Protocol letter over General Licence GL26 by 4pm today. Looking forward to seeing what they have to say.
The time is now
A week today there will be a rally in Westminster calling for politicians to take action on climate change and environmental decline. Kick-off 1pm. Save the date, book your transport, and come to London. I’m in London anyway that day, for a World Land Trust meeting, I hope I’ll be able to add myself to…
Now and again I get something like this
I have just finished reading you (sic) very good book, “Inglorious” and even though I have lived a very different lifestyle to yours, at the end of the day we both share the same ideals, which is to help bring an end to driven grouse shooting. Five years ago I hadn’t even got a contract…
This website
I’d like to thank Obicreative for their work on getting this website back up and running. They did a great job, quickly and well, and are a friendly bunch and, to my mind, ridiculously cheap! Here’s their website and I recommend them highly. As readers of this blog, and perhaps of other parts of the…
Threadbare evidence
The Wild Justice blog has published the Licence Determination document which was obtained through an information request and which forms part of the decision-making for General Licence GL26. It makes interesting reading only in the sense that it is quite fun to try to find the evidence on which the licence is based. It’s like…
It’s very difficult to know what to think
The Tory leadership election both fascinates and repulses me in more or less equal measure. On the face of it, I don’t think they look a very talented bunch and in my view, they don’t look like a particularly pleasant bunch either. But one of them will win, and that person will be our Prime…
To be fair…
To be fair… he got there in the end To be fair, it felt a bit like getting blood out of a stone.
Bransdale moor, North Yorks
Recently, Kevin Hollinrake MP, was singing the praises of grouse moor management after a visit to Bransdale Moor in his constituency. Henry and I went to Bransdale in 2015 on a tour of shooting estates – here’s what I wrote at the time. And here is what Raptor Persecution UK wrote about Bransdale at the…
Inglorious 12th
In two months time, on Monday 12 August, the grouse shooting season will open. This is a land use whose days are numbered. Intensive grouse shooting is underpinned by wildlife crime and that wildlife crime is widespread. Remember the long-term study of Peregrines across the north of England which shows that their numbers and nesting…