Standing up for Nature
Our case (and RSPB’s too) against the decision of Natural England to license brood meddling of Hen Harriers will be heard in the Royal Court of Justice on 5-6 December 2018. You can come and watch! See you there.
I met some Minke Whales in Iceland yesterday. Some were swimming around off Reykjavik being watched by boatloads of happy whale-watchers (above) but others were for sale in a local supermarket.
I’m in Iceland.
Silent Slaughter: the shooting of Scotland’s seals. Disturbing.
The Royal Family do some strange things. The appearance in the news (see here, here, here, here) that 5-year-old Prince George had been taken to experience his first grouse shoot could not have been an accident. In 2008, it was revealed that Prince George’s great-grandmother donated money to Songbird Survival. Earlier this year the Queen…
On 1 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon on Earth, named Martha, died of old age in a cage in Cincinatti Zoo. Once the most numerous bird on Earth, the last Passenger Pigeon in the wild expired in 1900 or perhaps 1901 and the bird was known only in captivity after that. A bird that…
It’s good to see that this dataset has been updated. I’ve only had time to give it a quick glance but the errors I (we) spotted do seem to have been corrected. I’m told that RPUK will be updating their maps in due course.
After years of pressure from this blog and RaptorpersecutionUK Natural England has released a complicated Excel table of Hen Harriers’ last satellite fixes, in the middle of the night and with no media release or mention anywhere. This coincided with the presentation of … something … we don’t quite know what, and NE don’t want…
I’m sure we will see members and staff from all of these organisations in Hyde Park on 22 September – Walking for Wildife. But it will be interesting to see whether, as organisations, they promote the walk to their memberships. I do hope they do. It would be odd if they don’t. No doubt the…