The Hen Harrier Affair – a personal perspective Tim Birch is the Conservation Manager of the Derbyshire Widlife Trust. He has worked in nature conservation for many years, much of it abroad, but grew up in Derbyshire to which he has now returned. It’s now been almost 18 months since I’ve been back…
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FoI Friday – 5
This is a copy of my earlier blog post but now including the Peak District National Park’s rapid and helpful response to points 1 and 2. They tell me that they are checking on point 3 now. Dear Peak District National Park This is a request under the Freedom of Information regulations, but in…
Martha and Martha 2 and a great review in the Independent
The World at One say they had such a strong response to the chat between Martha Kearney and me on the subject of Passenger Pigeons that they have put up a separate link to it and included a film of the interview too – click here to hear and see the interview. I also enjoyed…
FoI Friday – 3
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Dear Defra You really are shocking. You have not acknowledged or answered this FoI request made on 7 April this year. I have reminded you about this once before. Please respond by Wednesday next week or else I will complain to the Information Commissioner about your woeful disregard for the principles of open government. Mark…
FoI Friday – 2
Dear Times newspaper I don’t believe you are under any legal obligation to answer this question, but I also cannot see any reason why you should not be happy to answer it: Have you received any representations from the Peak District National Park or landowners, land managers, farmers etc in the Peak District National Park…