The RSPB really is in a pickle over its line on bird of prey persecution. Having welcomed the Hen Harrier inaction plan, welcomed the pathetic statement by the Moorland Association and disappointed many (except the Chief Exec of Songbird Survival) with its line on the Hen Harrier breeding season update, more and more people are…
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When in doubt – ask Shania Twain!
The RSPB is getting into a bit of a pickle, and that’s a shame. It has had a really bad week with its natural allies and that week comes after a slow slide in confidence throughout 2016 in the organisation’s ability to make a difference on raptor persecution at a policy and advocacy level. The…
2015 in the Birdwatch readers’ Blog of the Year – Jan-June
January: I saw a Great Grey Shrike locally (I’d forgotten until I looked back), Defra were hopeless (hardly news, I know), David Harsent won the TS Eliot prize for poetry for a book which included a poem about a killed Hen Harrier, a Scottish gamekeeper was jailed for killing raptors, SNH was put under pressure…
Tomorrow
I’m doing a couple of things in Norfolk tomorrow. First the Norfolk Bird Fair at Mannington Hall, north of Norwich. I’ll be giving a talk at 1345 which will encompass Passenger Pigeons and Hen Harriers. Looks like it will be a fun event with lots of stands. Maybe Songbird Survival will be able to tell…
Left undone…
Defra still hasn’t answered this very simple question – ‘Do ministers sign off on responses to e-petitions. And who signed off the response to John Armitage’s successful e-petition about licensing shooting estates?’ Teresa Dent hasn’t yet replied on behalf of Rules restaurant on the expected levels of poisonous lead in the meat that they sell….