James Marchington has a go at me in something called ‘ishoot’. Apparently I am having a mid-life crisis and should have run off with my secretary on a Harley Davidson instead of campaigning about the ills of grouse shooting. Thanks for the advice James. There was a time when James wrote rather good pieces…
Tag: hen harrier
Going shopping this morning?
Come back with: A Hen Harrier-saving bath bomb from Lush… The August issue of Birdwatch… And a book, perhaps this book… Sorted!
Did you see this?
In case you missed it, here is the link to Mike Clarke’s blog on what Defra should do on Hen Harriers which appeared the other day. It’s pretty good really. A plan for Hen Harrier conservation is needed, but so is a plan to revitalise the uplands as a whole. A good step towards this…
A week today…the Bird Fair starts
I’m looking forward to the Bird Fair but after a couple of weekends of Game Fair and Hen Harrier Day (both of which were just brilliant – in rather different ways) I’m quite looking forward to this weekend being free – or, full of all the things that I have neglected because I’ve been a…
Another funny thing that happened yesterday – #inglorious12th
I did a couple of radio interviews yesterday morning, from the BBC Millbank studios in London – with BBC Radios Leeds and York (one of which was with Amanda Anderson of the Moorland Association). You can see how glamorous the studios are from the photo. And the evening before I’d been in the same Millbank…
Why driven grouse shooting is doomed
I’m quite often asked whether I really want a ban on driven grouse shooting – I do! And then I’m sometimes told that ‘It’ll never happen’ and I say ‘It will’. This is why. Let’s start with the very obvious, but rarely stated, fact that driven grouse shooting is not essential. We don’t need it….
Hen Harrier Day thunderclap
The message went out 5.7 million times just after 10am on Sunday, ‘We’re missing our hen harriers – we want them back!‘ This was too controversial a message to gather the support of Defra (the government department responsible for nature conservation and restoring the status of the Hen Harrier in England), Natural England (the English…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 – (3)
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Just some pictures…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 (2)
Chris Packham was an absolute star on Hen Harrier Eve and at the rally in the Goyt Valley. This is a man who cares passionately about wildlife and is using his public position to promote a better deal for wildlife. He is an inspiring man. I don’t agree with Chris about everything (which means that…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 (1)
I was in the Goyt Valley on Sunday morning with, I guess, 4-500 other folk. Did anyone count? There were certainly fewer than last year in the Derwent Valley – but it’s still a big crowd. And everyone was very welcome. This was us… Meanwhile, down south, at the RSPB reserve at Arne, 130 people…