Standing up for Nature
I spent four days abroad last week – birdwatching, drinking red wine, eating oysters and having a great time with friends. Where might I have been? Here are a series of teasing clues, I hope, to get you thinking. More clues at 1500 and 1600 and then the answer at 1800. Clue 5: we saw…
I spent four days abroad last week – birdwatching, drinking red wine, eating oysters and having a great time with friends. Where might I have been? Here are a series of teasing clues, I hope, to get you thinking. More clues at 1400, 1500 and 1600 and then the answer at 1800. Clue 2: we…
I spent four days abroad last week – birdwatching, drinking red wine, eating oysters and having a great time with friends. Where might I have been? Here are a series of teasing clues, I hope, to get you thinking. More clues at 1300, 1400, 1500 and 1600 and then the answer at 1800. Clue 1:…
In March, of course I was struck by the fact that LACS supported our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting but I didn’t have any spare dosh to give them after giving over £150 to the BirdLife appeal, linked to Champions of the Flyway, to support work by the Hellenic Ornithological Society to combat illegal…
ban driven grouse shooting e-petition stands at 15,800 signatures – please sign and promote to others. This e-petition is still in its first month. ban toxic lead ammunition e-petition stands at 15,500 signatures – please sign and promote to others. This e-petition is in its last month and deserves far greater support from our major…
It’s not an accident that a newspaper calling itself The Independent – and wanting to be forceful and influential – would have an eagle as its logo. So, that’s another dead eagle then. The Independent has been a pretty good newspaper over the years and it has also been a leading newspaper on environmental matters….
Our book, Behind the Binoculars, came 6th in the Diagram Prize. How odd? The Diagram Prize is a proper book prize – for the oddest title of a book published in the previous year. We were miles away from winning with only 2.9% of the popular vote. And the winner was Too Naked for the…
Brilliant! Just brilliant! Thank you all!
I will probably be voting to remain in the EU – although I am giving it quite a lot of thought. It’s not completely cut and dried. In the car on the way to Cheltenham one day last week (yes, thanks for asking – I had a great time and made money overall) the discussion…
It took about 10 hours for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting to pass 2000 signatures on Day 1. Thank you for all the likes, shares, ReTweets etc