Which should survive, hen harriers or grouse moors? Avery gives fair hearings to both sides and comes down against grouse moors
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Mall Galleries, SWLA, gossip etc
Leopard and Carmine Bee-eaters – Greg Poole Yesterday I spent large amounts of time from lunchtime to dinner time in the Mall Galleries, in The Mall, at various events including the opening of the SWLA exhibition and a BTO evening reception involving people getting awards. And a pretty good time was had by most I…
An NE staff member writes…
The following is a lightly edited version of an email I recently received from someone whose identity I know, and who I know to be a NE employee. Understandably their identity is not revealed here. The editing I have done is mostly to remove clues as to their identity. I work for NE. I’m writing…
A snippet for now
I feel I’ve been slightly neglecting this blog for a couple of weeks for I was first travelling (and I have things to tell you about that) and then much of last week was taken up with working on our judicial review. Actually, there is nothing to feel guilty about there is there? Today is,…
Thor thunders no more
RSPB press relase. Hen Harrier chick Thor – now ‘disappeared’. Photo: Steve Downing First Bowland hen harrier chick in three years vanishes without trace Thor was one of 13 chicks to fledge from Bowland, Lancashire for the first time in three years. The rare chick is the latest in a number of hen harriers to…
Wuthering Moors 75 – six long years of complaining
Six years ago today the RSPB made its complaint to the European Commission about burning practices at Walshaw Moor and many other driven grouse moors in the UK (See Wuthering Moors 28, 15 October 2012). The RSPB deserves great respect for this important move (even though it is very quiet about it itself these days)….
Wuthering Moors 73 – burning while Gove fiddles
Blog posts titled Wuthering Moors are about the issue of burning of blanket bogs by grouse shooting estates (e.g. Wuthering Moors 28, 15 October 2012), the inability of the government agency Natural England to do its job properly on regulating landowners on protected moorland sites (Wuthering Moors 68 – the background to an unlawful decision,…
More gems from the shooting scene
The Savill’s benchmarking survey is a valuable reference point for those interested in the future of shooting. Here are a few more areas (see this morning’s blog) which caught my eye: the average salary for a single-handed keeper was £21,100 plus benefits. That doesn’t sound like a fortune does it? What might the benefits be?…
Wuthering Moors 72 – burning issues
Blog posts titled Wuthering Moors are about the issue of burning of blanket bogs by grouse shooting estates (e.g. Wuthering Moors 28, 15 October 2012), the inability of the government agency Natural England to do its job properly on regulating landowners on protected moorland sites (Wuthering Moors 68 – the background to an unlawful decision,…
A burning question
On Monday the heather burning season opens and the hills will start to be torched. In the Labour Party’s Green Transformation document, launched last week at the Labour Conference in Liverpool, it states ‘End rotational heather burning and launch an independent review into the economic, environmental and wildlife impacts of driven grouse shooting‘. You will…