A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes You will have noticed, if an avid reader of this blog, that I wasn’t impressed by the Daily Telegraph error-strewn article about Hen Harriers earlier in the week (see here, here and here). And it was error-strewn. But anyone…
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It gets worse, or better, depending which side you are on…
Read this piece in the Guardian by Karl Mathieson. The YFTB press release: The government figures show that there were 12 hen harrier nests in England this year of which 6 succeeded and 6 failed. All 6 of the failures were on RSPB controlled land in Bowland and Geltsdale. All 6 of the successful nests…
A better year for Hen Harriers in England – not a good year
The ‘government report’ mentioned in yesterday’s awful Telegraph misconstruction of a story has turned, as I said it would, into a Natural England press release (copied below)(Telegraph fail). And the criticism of the RSPB has turned into … well … nothing (Telegraph fail). It’s interesting that two of the successful nests are on FC land…
E-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passes 9,000
Five days to go until Hen Harrier Day and the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting scorches past 9,000 signatures. Let’s get to 10,000 by the weekend – please sign here!
You forgot the truth
If you saw this bit of nonsense in the Daily Telegraph today then you probably just shrugged it off. This piece of ‘journalism’ is prompted by a You Forgot the Birds press release and the details were not, I am told, checked with either Natural England or the RSPB. The YFTB press release was entitled…