Today is the day when we submit our application for judicial review of NE’s foolish licensing of brood meddling. Our legal team has been working hard and I’ve been working quite hard too – sending them information, drafting witness statements, commenting on the legal matters and answering searching questions. There will no doubt be a…
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Sunday book review – The Ascent of Birds by John Reilly
This is a book for the intelligent and inquisitive birder – which may limit its reach somewhat – but also for students of evolutionary biology and all those who have wondered at how we have ended up, in any part of the world, with the mix of species we see today. It is a…
Guest blog – Peak District Moorland Monitors
Thanks Mark, for allowing us the opportunity to introduce ourselves! We are the Moorland Monitors – a group of local people from raptor, mammal and ecological backgrounds who want to combine forces to protect the wild species and wild spaces of the Peak District grouse moors. We believe that local people and visitors can play…
Natalie Bennett says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Natalie Bennett is a Green Party politician, and says; ‘I first learnt about the damage driven grouse shooting moors were doing to their neighbours with disastrous land management practices after the 2015/16 floods. And I found out about the carbon emission impacts of their activities. Then I learnt about the plight of the hen harriers…
Jackie Morris says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Artist Jackie Morris says; ‘The language we use when it comes to our fellow species on this planet needs to change. Birds are not commodities to be exploited for sport, and the persecution of raptors and other wildlife in areas where shooting is practiced is appalling. The industrialisation of the ‘shoot’ has given rise to…
Yesterday
Thank you to everyone for your birthday wishes yesterday for me and my binoculars – we were together all day and had a good day’s birding at Titchwell RSPB reserve in Norfolk where the sun shone for all of our visit. In these days of social media I found I have birthday wishes arriving from…
Bank Holiday book review – Kinder Scout by Ed Douglas and John Beatty
Sometimes a book arrives in the post, out of the blue, and I wonder why I was sent it. That applied to this book although I wasn’t complaining as it’s beautiful and has an interesting story to tell. The ‘people’s mountain’ refers to the Kinder Mass Trespass of 1932 which hastened (or just perhaps delayed,…
John Ranson says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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John Ranson is the Environment Editor of The Canary and says: ‘As environment editor on a mostly political website, I’m always looking for topics that cross the boundaries of nature, politics and social justice. I was already a Hen Harrier Day regular and of course the issue of driven grouse shooting is completely tied up…
#justice4henharriers update
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I posted a short update on the Crowd Justice website earlier today – see here. And I’ve spent most of the day sending emails to our lawyers giving them more juicy information tom help our case. That’s all I can say for now.
Chris Hind says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Chris Hind says; ‘I live near the Geltsdale Nature Reserve and every spring we are out on the uplands looking for potential breeding Hen Harriers. Driven grouse shooting takes place on two blocks of moorland adjacent to the reserve where we hope Hen Harriers will breed. I would love to see these fantastic birds…