Freudian slip minister?

Environment Minister Rory Stewart encourages everyone to visit their nearest National Park or public woodland this Bank Holiday weekend. The minister says: ‘The UK’s National Parks, forests and woodlands are right at the heart of our national identity. These spaces belong to each and every one of us, and I’d challenge anyone visiting to enjoy…

Five years on

Five years ago today I left the RSPB and started life as a …well, I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew it was time for a change. Now I tend to call myself a writer and environmental campaigner. In that time I have written seven books – so I probably…

Some of us get to vote a week today

If you live in England and Wales, but not in London or Greater Manchester, you will have the chance to vote for your police and crime commissioner a week today. P&CCs are charged with ensuring effective and efficient policing of a police area.  Wildlife crime is part of that role – certainly not the most…

Rude message from David Parks on Facebook

I get some of this. This was posted as a message on my Facebook page yesterday night, posted just before midnight, I see. ‘what a fckn blinkered idiot you are…! you and the like of Packham……………….you will never defeat shooting,insignificant idiots……………‘ It’s always nice to know that people care. The person who sent me this…