Standing up for Nature
When a man with a fairly posh accent says, on the BBC’s flagship morning news programme, ‘Any bird that gets in the way of that [the cash crop of grouse shooting] is annihilated‘ then it’s time to start thinking of selling your grouse moor before its value plummets. David Cobham was talking to John Humphreys…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters – some of the wounds have been entirely self-inflicted and others have been because they don’t have much defence against the truth or the masses of the people. Let’s start with Findlay Wilde, now luxuriating on holiday somewhere near a mistnet in Portugal. His…
Yesterday I went on a march in London with lots of other people protesting against driven grouse shooting, the badger cull and any chance that fox hunting should be reinstated. And I said a brief few words and listened to a range of passionate speakers such as Chris Packham, Peter Egan, Natalie Bennett, Dominic…
Young Findlay Wilde’s thunderclap has now passed 11,000,000 social reach – and you have until 09:29 to add your support. We’re right behind you Findlay! And – thank you! I’m heading off to the #crushcruelty march in London where fox-lovers, badger-lovers and hen harrier-lovers will gather. See you there! And this is what the…
Ahead of the Glorious Twelfth the Scottish Raptor Study Group has produced a ‘Moorland Myths Busters Guide’ for six of the most popular myths held within the driven grouse shooting sector. ‘Game bird licensing is unnecessary The failure of the intensive end of the game shooting industry to operate within the law over 60 years…
Some years ago I switched from the convention to which I had grown accustomed at the RSPB of not capitalising birds’ common names to the alternative. So whereas Falco subbuteo used to be the hobby it then became the Hobby and whereas I still wrote of gulls, I started writing about Herring Gulls rather than…
There is a dark day looming. The Inglorious Twelfth is just a few sleeps away, and yet it is troubling the sleep of many people; people who care about the wildlife balance in the uplands, people who are angry about the on going illegal persecution of raptors, people who feel like their natural inheritance…
Lord Peel is the first in a new series of blogs introducing you to the trustees, chairs and patrons of wildlife and environmental charities etc. The idea is to let you know who is running or has a senior, perhaps albeit largely honorary, position in your favourite, or least favourite, charity. I have a few…
Any event in the Highlands with 200 attendees is pretty good. The rally in Boat if Garten was standing room only and a great event.
Early news of attendances at Hen Harrier Day rallies is as follows: Rainham Marshes 450 Arne 500 Sheffield 350 Boat of Garten 200 Loch Leven 200 Glenarriff 75 Mull 75 Bowland tbc Rhum tbc Eigg tbc Many thanks to all who attended and made this the biggest ever, and to all the individual event organisers…