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Bowland Gull Cull 21
Many thanks to the reader of this blog who pointed me in this direction (click here) where we find this table… …which goes back as far as 2012 but only appears to have 12 cases in it, but the two at the end of the list are as follows; So, Bowland is in the news…
RSPB publishes video of trapped Peregrine from Bowland grouse moor
This morning, in this blog, the RSPB have published this video … … which has prompted this excellent blog by RaptorPersecutionUK.
Bowland Gull Cull 20
From the parliament website: Anna Turley MP: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to Answer of 15 June 2018 to Question 152799 and Answer of 02 July 2018 to Question 157791 on Special Protection Areas: Birds, on what date her Department received the results of the public…
Bowland Gull Cull 19 – comments on NE’s response
This is the fifth blog post on this subject today; the other four have dealt with NE’s very tardy response to my FoI/EIR requests. 1. I started this enquiry by asking NE whether they had consented the culling of Lesser Black-backed Gulls in the Bowland Fells for 2017. NE’s reply was that there was no…
Bowland Gull Cull 18 – the Habitats Regulations Assessment
Having read NE’s response to my FoI/EIR request, and the proposed MoU between NE, Abbeystead, Bleasdale and United Utilities and the SSSI/SPA Management Plan, we now move on to the 27 pages of the Habitats Regulations Assessment. This document is where NE assesses whether a plan or project will affect a site designated under the…
Bowland Gull Cull 17 – the SSSI/SPA Management Plan
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I’m now moving on to the next document that NE sent me – the Bowland Fells SSSI/SPA Management Plan. This is quite a big document – 22 pages. This is how it starts: So, we learn here that there are LBBG Sensitive Areas – and I think we can call the rest of the area…
Bowland Gull Cull 16 – the MoU
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Reading NE’s reponse to me (a response after over a year) it looked like there might not have been any consent to kill Lesser Black-backed Gull in the Bowland Fells SPA that was partly notified to protect them. But the next place to look seemed to be the MoU that NE sent me and which…
Bowland Gull Cull 15 – NE’s much-delayed response to FoI/EIR request
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After more than a year, Natural England are beginning to come clean about their role in the Bowland Gull Cull (see here for series of earlier blogs). This is the letter I received from NE last Monday afternoon. At face value, this might give the impression that there was no consent for a gull cull. …
Bowland Gull Cull 14 – some information
At 14:59 this afternoon I received some answers to my FOI request of 10 July 2017 about the Bowland gull cull (see here for summary). I’m very grateful to NE for their response. It will take me a few days to read the large documents that I have been sent and to figure out what…