Poor government response

Les Wallace’s petition has now received its expected poor government response. To be fair, it is quite a quick, poor response. Therese Coffey and the rest of Defra say ‘No’. In fact they say ‘No, no need’. I’ll be coming back to this later, probably today, as there are some very interesting aspects to it….

Wild Justice first case…

Chris Packham should be on Good Morning Britain talking about Wild Justice at 06:50 this morning. He tells me he apologises for sniffling – he’s got a bug. And the Wild Justice website is temporarily down too – it has a few glitches and needs a bit of technical fiddling. Maybe it caught something from…

Wild Justice is launched

Wild Justice is launched today. It is a not-for-profit company set up by Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and me. More on what we are going to do through the day, but here is our (first ever) press release: Wild Justice, a not-for-profit company set up by; TV presenter, photographer and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham CBE;…

NEWS: bad news for grouse shooting

It seems we have another five weeks or so to wait until the long, long, long awaited analysis of NE’s Hen Harrier tagging data is published. But the title of the paper ‘Patterns of satellite tagged hen harrier disappearances suggest widespread illegal killing on British grouse moors’ is somewhat revealing. No doubt Michael Gove and…