If you signed the petition at the Bird Fair asking the Icelandic Prime Minister, Katrín Jacobsdóttir, to do her best to end whaling in her country (see here and here) then your signature is now in her hands. I was lucky enough to be granted a 15-minute meeting with the Prime Minister yesterday afternoon. I…
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Wild hacking of falcons
I knew that the readership of this blog would fill in the gaps in my knowledge about wild hacking. Here is an interesting link with some photos that show that there can be lots of captive-bred falcons hanging around on moors in Scotland. Wow! I’ve asked SNH to confirm that wild hacking would require a…
I didn’t know this
There are lots of things that I don’t know, but it’s not that often that someone tells me something and I think ‘Really? Can that be right? Sounds very odd! Never heard anything like that before’. But that happened to me recently when I was contacted by someone I didn’t know who told me that…
Icelandic whaling – three short updates
I haven’t fogotten about Icelandic whaling. Here are three short updates: discussions are progressing about how best to deliver the Bird Fair petition to Iceland in the most sensitive yet effective way. I expect there to be some news next week on this. our petition has gained 30 signatures as Mark Carwardine rescued a petition…
Bird Fair asks Iceland’s Prime Minister to end whaling
I spent some, by no means all, of my time at the Bird Fair getting signatures, on bits of paper, to ask the Icelandic Prime Minister to bring an end to whaling in her country. I’m amazed by the total: we got… 1,320 signatures. Thank you to all who signed (and see some more acknowledgements…
Icelandic whaling petition at Bird Fair
At the Bird Fair this weekend there will be a petition, on bits of paper for a change, asking the Icelandic Prime Minister, very politely, to do her best to end commercial whaling by her country. This is the wording of the petition: Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British Birdwatching…
And then there were six! (Letter on Icelandic whaling from tour operators)
The Travelling Naturalist and Wildlife Worldwide have added their names to the list of operators in support of the following letter: FOR THE ATTENTION OF MS KATRIN JAKOBSDOTTIR PRIME MINISTER OF ICELAND Dear Ms Jakobsdottir, We are all UK-based tour operators who bring parties of wildlife enthusiasts to your beautiful country. We have…
Four signatures so far (Icelandic whaling letter from tour operators)
The letter below was sent to eight travel companies asking them whether they would sign up. So far we have four signatures and two refusals (see below). I have no beef with the two companies, so far, who have said a polite ‘no’. All companies are different, they face different constraints and signing this letter…
A letter to the Icelandic Prime Minister from wildlife tour operators?
Following on from last week’s blogs about tour operators and Icelandic whaling (see here and here ) I have had some fruitful and positive interactions with several tour operators who take visitors to Iceland. I have to say that these have been entirely polite, apparently open and wholly constructive. As a result I have drafted…
Some updates
Just a few updates: no response from NE on this (Bowland gull cull) – but they did only promise it by the end of July so we’ll have to be patient sadly, the Arne HHDay event has bitten the dust – which is a great shame. Other events are available – see here. on Saturday…