Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_of_God We have a date, two days actually, for our appeal of the brood-meddling judgment. After Halloween And after the Rugby World Cup final And after Guy Fawkes Night And after the end of the grouse shooting season And after the general election…
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Report on the RSPB’s AGM by Lyn Ebbs
Lyn Ebbs is a scientist by education and has been a member of the RSPB for many years and volunteered for them since she retired. Lyn and her husband, Richard, received RSPB President’s Awards at the RSPB AGM last year. Lyn is actively involved with wildlife campaigns and has attended Hen Harrier Day rallies every…
The RSPB and game shooting
Saturday’s welcome announcement from the RSPB that they are reviewing their position over game shooting is just that – welcome. None of us yet knows what that review will look like nor what, if anything, the RSPB has in mind might change; but we can guess. First, you don’t announce a review if your attention…
NEWS: RSPB prepares to shift position on gamebird shooting
At yesterday’s RSPB AGM, Kevin Cox, the Chair of Council made the following announcement; There is growing concern about the environmental impact (including for carbon, water and biodiversity) of intensive forms of game bird shooting and associated land management practices. This includes both driven grouse moor management (which involves shooting our native red grouse) and…
Amazingly interesting resource from RSPB
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Where do Hen Harriers travel? Click here to see the answers for many RSPB satellite-tagged birds from the EU (remember them?)-funded LIFE project.
It’s your difficult choice
I’ve been fretting over how to cast my votes in the Birdwatch Birders’ Choice awards. The only one that I have completely decided upon is my choice for the Guano Award for environmental harm – DEFRA deserves to ‘win’ this and let’s hope the results are published before or during an election campaign. Whereas the…
Pretty lame – Woman’s Hour
Yesterday Woman’s Hour (a BBC Radio 4 programme – click here and listen after 23 minutes) got together Minette Batters of the NFU, Marian Spain of Natural England and Beccy Speight of the RSPB on the pretext that there are a lot of women running the environment. In the case of the NFU that is…
And another…
See here Where is the Werritty report and will it be fit for purpose? Why are NE licensing brood meddling instead of clamping down on wildlife crime? Why has no Defra minister ever condemned the scale of illegal killing of protected wildlife on driven grouse moors? Why is the Moorland Association not ostracised by statutory…
E-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – update
The total has passed 111,111 signatures and the prospect of a general election campaign (which would close all such petitions on the UK Parliament website) keeps approaching and receding, more often than the movement of the tides it seems to me. It’s unclear whether the time for ‘one last big push’ is today or in…
Gone, gone, gone…
A brood of five Hen Harrier chicks were ‘brood-meddled’ this year, and all were satellite-tagged so that we could all relish their adventures over the coming years. Trouble is, three of these birds have ceased transmitting signals to their expensive satellite links – just as is normal for Hen Harriers that spend much time on…