I’m not the only one who thinks that the GWCT hasn’t had a very good year according to the responses I’ve looked at in the readers’ survey for this blog (click here to enter your views). They are behaving so strangely that I wasn’t too surprised to read their rather odd account of the second…
Tag: hen harrier
Charles Moore – revisited
I am thinking of adding the phrase ‘Expert campaigner – Charles Moore’ to my website given the plug that the former editor of the Daily Torygraph gave to my work a while back. As pointed out earlier, Mr Moore forgot to mention that he is not just a neutral journalist but is a keen supporter…
Birdwatch 2015
Comments Off on Birdwatch 2015
I haven’t quite finished my Christmas shopping and yet the first Birdwatch magazine of 2015 has arrived through my letter box. And it’s a good one. Chris Packham won the poll for Conservation Hero of the Year – quite rightly – for his actions on Malta, Hen Harriers and so much more. I’ve been lucky…
A recap on e-petitions
Let’s just have a recap: Ban driven grouse shooting Number of signatures: 20,073 Open for signature until 30/3/15 Introduction of offence of vicarious liability for raptor persecution in England Number of signatures: 10,908 Closed 17/11/2012 Licencing of upland grouse moors and gamekeepers Number of signatures: 10,429 Closed 27/02/2014 You’d think, wouldn’t you, that…
20,000!
I woke a little while ago to find that our e-petition, calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting (in England), passed a major milestone during the night. 20,000 signatures! Thank you to all who have signed and thank you to those people, mostly individuals rather than organisations, who have promoted this e-petition since it…
The Monro challenge
Dear ‘Monro’ You arrived on this blog in mid-October and I have let you post over 100 comments here since that time – more than any other commenter. All your comments are on grouse shooting and Hen Harriers. You are becoming highly repetitive and slightly irritating. By the way, your comments have elicited about 872…
Charles Moore shoots grouse
It’s funny, isn’t it, how many journalists who criticise the RSPB are shooters. And it’s funny how they somehow forget to mention the fact that they are shooters or involved in shooting when they write their criticisms of the RSPB’s opposition to people associated with shooting breaking wildlife law. We’ve had the case of Magnus…
Simon Barnes – ‘#WhoseSideAreYouOn Prince William?
Simon Barnes writes so well, and I tend to agree with him too. In today’s Independent on Sunday he makes the point, made here and elsewhere in the past, that it’s very nice to see Prince William arguing against illegal killing of wildlife abroad but why the silence here at home? How about coming out…
More photos from Tuesday – and the appearance of a ‘spinner’.
All images: Eleanor Bentall. I see that Charles Moore has used his column in the Torygraph to have a go at the RSPB and the Wildlife Trusts for asking their members to show their support for a Nature and Wellbeing Act, to defend the EU nature directives (Birds Directive and Habitats and Species Directive) and…
Rallying
When you have as enjoyable time as I did on Tuesday at the Rally for Nature, it’s difficult not to keep thinking back to it. It’s also wrong not to keep thinking back to it. Here are just a few thoughts and a few photographs. Really good to see Charlie Moores, one of the…