Standing up for Nature
Last chance to buy a ticket There are 19 remaining seats available for the Hen Harrier Eve event at the Palace Hotel at Buxton on Saturday evening. Tickets will not be available for purchase on the door on the evening. Your last chance to get one of these tickets (£10) is to email me, mark@markavery.info,…
Henry and I visited the RSPB at The Lodge – and gathered quite a crowd! As well as Bob the Squirrel there is the RSPB Conservation Director, Martin Harper, in the photograph and quite a few friends of mine and of Henry’s. The RSPB feature so many times in Inglorious that I’m not going to…
Yesterday I didn’t go to the Game Fair but the Today programme did. And Farming Today were there too. Farming Today repeated C(W)TG’s Andrew Gilruth’s inability to answer a question here after about 15 minutes. Did you notice how Andrew claimed that grouse moors had been designated because they were teeming with wildlife? He’s such…
James Attlee in the Independent ‘ Avery is a reasonable man; by his own admission “a wishy-washy liberal” who has engaged in fruitless years of dialogue with the grouse-shooting industry in his efforts to gain concessions. Once roused, however, he proves indefatigable. So far the political connections and powerful lobbying of the industry has maintained the…
I’ve been to many Game Fairs but this was Henry’s first. He was a little bit nervous but he had a gaggle of burly minders with him. As well as myself there were Lawrie and Phil from BAWC and Alan Davies from The Biggest Twitch. It was a rather quiet Game Fair I felt, fewer…
A week today, at 10am, a simply message will be sent out around 4 million times through Twitter, Facebook and tumblr. “We’re missing our Hen Harriers – and we want them back!” This message is almost completely uncontroversial which is no doubt why it has gathered such widespread support from organisations and individuals involved in…
A week today is Hen Harrier Eve when over 250 people (but the room can hold 300 so there are a few tickets available) will gather to celebrate the Hen Harrier ahead of the Hen Harrier Day rally in the Peak District the next morning (9 August, Goyt Valley). Hen Harrier Eve – 8…
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Belgrave Square has rarely, if ever, seen a six-foot Hen Harrier before, but last week we visited the London HQ of the Country Land and Business Association. Henry said that it all looked very posh – much posher than the Scottish Land and Estates little office block. Henry gave his plumage a special preen to…
Henry and I were passing through the Oxfordshire countryside, somewhere between Banbury and Chipping Norton, at least I think it was Oxfordshire, maybe it was Northants. As I say, we were just passing through, when Henry said that he needed to consult Inglorious about a few things. So he did. For everyone else, Inglorious –…