Standing up for Nature
I enjoy talking to people – sometimes it’s difficult to stop me. I’ll be at the Game Fair debating with Owen Paterson MP, Ian Coghill (chair of G(W)CT) and Philip Merricks on 31 July, in Buxton on the evening of 8 August, at Hen Harrier Day in the Goyt Valley on 9 August and then…
I don’t know what impression you get of me through reading this blog, but it isn’t all work you know. I am quite good at chilling. Over the weekend I spent an evening with friends and family enjoying a barbecue on one of the cooler evenings of recent days – timing is everything. I was…
Five weeks today, at the Palace Hotel Buxton, there will be an evening to celebrate the Hen Harrier. Henry is celebrating already! Tickets will go on sale in a week’s time, at £10 per head. The event will feature: Chris Packham, Mark Cocker (Buxton-born author), local performers, Jeremy Deller (Turner Prize winning artist see here…
In the New Statesman this week, there is an excellent and long article by Mark Cocker on shooting (Unfair game: why Britain’s birds of prey are being killed). I recommend it as an interesting read and because it will bring the plight of the Hen Harrier to a new readership. The most interesting quote in…
Henry wanted me to point out that the residents of Kildrummy will be very interested in the publication, a month today, of my book Inglorious – conflict in the uplands – click here to see how you can order it now. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
It may be that Scottish Land and Estates has been slumbering for quite a while but their Chief Exec, Doug McAdam, seems to have been roused from his snooze. It may well have been the sight of a six foot Hen Harrier looking in through his office window that did it… Mr McAdam (@DougMcAdam) occasionally…
Four weeks today, Inglorious – conflict in the uplands will be published by Bloomsbury. Inglorious has a Foreword by Chris Packham that is hard-hitting and passionate and makes the rest of the book look rather meek and mild. Inglorious starts with the Hen Harrier and its persecution by game interests, partly because many of us…
Lost and found? Here Henry is on Donside. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
If you had a rainforest, and slashed and burned it, you’d be putting a lot of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, just as surely as if your nation ran a lot of gas-guzzling cars. Natural ecosystems often act as carbon stores which sequester greenhouse gases – forests are the obvious ones but peatlands are also…
No fires – because we’ve already burned the place? #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.