Standing up for Nature
About 350 people attended, I’m told, plus a Peregrine overhead and some TV cameras. Thank you to all the speakers, to the organisers and to those who attended. Great day! We will win!
This is not a bird or nature book, but given that this is a campaigning website then I think you’ll find that there is plenty in this book for you if you want the world to be a different place. And I do, and know that many of you do too. Much of the book…
Happy Hen Harrier Day! Thank you Ralph!
On Sunday I’ll be heading to the Highlands Hen Harrier Day event, the northernmost ever, in the Boat of Garten Community Hall, 1pm start. Free admission. Speakers: Dr Mark Avery – Author, blogger and conservationist. Andy Wightman MSP – Writer and advocate of land reform. Allan Bantick – former chair of SWT Ian Thomson –…
A big thank you to all those involved in organising Hen Harrier Day events this year – it’s a lot of work, I know. On Saturday there are events at: RSPB Rainham Marshes Sheffield RSPB Loch Leven Glenarriff Forest Park On Sunday there are events at: RSPB Arne Dunsop Bridge, Lancs Isle…
After meeting in the Derwent Valley in 2014, the #sodden570, and then assembling in the Goyt Valley in 2015, followed by a gathering in Edale last year, the Peak District area Hen Harrier Day event is slap bang in the middle of Sheffield this Saturday. The event will be ‘chaired’ by Liz Ballard, CEO of…
I’m glad I’m a member of OneKind – and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with their Chief Exec in Boat of Garten on Sunday at Highlands Hen Harrier Day. This feisty organisation has launched a social media campaign for the month of August. The idea is that we tweet images of wildlife, any Scottish wildlife…
This appeared on Twitter a little while ago. The offer is still open to the National Trust to do a better job of explaining why they want to persist with grouse shooting on their land (for they don’t have to). Copy deadline tomorrow evening so that it could appear before Hen Harrier Day and well…
I’m getting feedback from many people about how disappointed they are with the NT position on grouse shooting on their land – the land whose purchase and management we, as NT members, have funded. One guy told me of a conversation he had with a NT staff member where he was told that ‘the upland…
News on the RSPB Skydancer blog reveals that this year there were 3 successful Hen Harrier nests in England (out of 7 attempts) – they produced 10 fledged young. Considering this was generally regarded as an excellent vole year – whereas 2016 was a poor vole year – the standstill in Hen Harrier breeding numbers…