This is a letter sent to my MP today. This instalment brings the letter up to date with the highlighted paragraphs. Dear Mr Pursglove PROTECTION OF HEN HARRIERS You are always kind enough to respond to me and you were particularly informative and helpful in our recent exchange. Thank you. You have now posted your…
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Letter to my MP – parts 1 and 2 of three
This is a letter sent to MP today. This is the second instalment dealing with the matter of burning in the uplands (paragraph in bold). Dear Mr Pursglove PROTECTION OF HEN HARRIERS You are always kind enough to respond to me and you were particularly informative and helpful in our recent exchange. Thank you. You…
Letter to my MP – part 1 of 3
Dear Mr Pursglove PROTECTION OF HEN HARRIERS You are always kind enough to respond to me and you were particularly informative and helpful in our recent exchange. Thank you. You have now posted your response to the e-action, which was taken by 123,678 participants (including myself) and of which I was one of the instigators,…
Smoke in the hills
Boris Johnson wasn’t watching Extinction – the facts last night even though his missus was, if a report, just a single sentence, in The Times today is to be believed. At the very foot of an article about how the UK would meet its net-zero target is the sentence ‘Plans to ban peat-burning appear to…
Natural England misleads minister who misleads parliament?
The war of words over Hen Harriers reached a new low this week with Natural England feeding a minister, Rebecca Pow, inaccurate information which she passed on to Parliament, if the RSPB is to be believed – and I am sure they are to be believed. In yesterday’s statement from RSPB which laid out the…
Guest blog – Keep the Red Grouse Flying by James Walsh
James Walsh, also known as The Mancunian Birder, ecologist / author / journalist, is the author of “Northern Greenhouse – A New Vision of the North” and “Greater Manchester Birding City Region” Twitter: @MancunianBirder Website: mancunianbirder.wordpress.com YouTube: Mancunian Birder Here he keeps the Red Grouse flag flying high… whilst listening to Aztec Camera on Buzz…
12 hours of e-action remain
I’m guessing that either you have already signed the joint Wild Justice, Hen Harrier Action, RSPB e-action or you don’t want to. But just in case you are in the ‘I must get round to doing that soon’ category then you have until midnight tonight to take action. It’s very simple, you click on this…
Guest blog: A stranger’s Short Diary on encountering the grouse and pheasant shooting industry for the first time
The first year visiting village X, February 2018 I can only see a few feet ahead of me. A Swaledale trots up, but huffily bleats her complaint when she realises I’m not the farmer. A Red Grouse whirrs “go back, go back” and drops like an arrow at the end of its trajectory and is…
An update on English constituencies and our e-action
Over 92,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I reckon we can reach 100,000 e-actions in the next four and a half days until the e-action…
A response to our e-action by the new leader of the LibDems, Ed Davey
Ed Davey was elected the leader of the LibDems today after one of the most dragged-out elections of all time (but I did make some money betting on it). He has probably had a lot on his mind in the last couple of weeks and this is the rather limp response he has sent his…