There are three types of people in the world of e-petition leaflets: those who haven’t asked for leaflets those who have asked for leaflets and got them those who have asked for leaflets and not got them This post is mostly of relevance to the third category of people, but is also of some relevance…
Tag: hen harrier
A Hen Harrier Day message from Bill Oddie
Bill is one of the strong supporters of this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting that passed 78,000 signatures a little while ago today (having passed 77,000 signatures this morning). Please sign to make an old Goodie very happy.
Dear Amanda
‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else. That is why we need this brood management plan’ – Amanda Anderson, Director, Moorland Association Dear Amanda Could you please give the following police forces a list of your members who are not ‘letting’ Hen Harriers onto their moors: Cleveland Police…
#HHDay2016 at Edale – a few words and images
In many ways, I thought that this was the very best Hen Harrier Day event ever. But the very first with the #sodden570 must just edge it for those who were there. Back in the Peak District two years later, after another successful rally in 2015 in the Goyt Valley, we gathered in a car…
Hen Harrier Day Rainham 2016 – the video and some images
And here are a load more images and words from the RSPB team at Rainham Marshes. Thanks all for a great day! Most of these photos thanks to Guy Shorrock.
Elsewhere in the media: Moorland Association admits criminality?
In a slightly bizarre piece by Jonathan Leake in Yesterday’s Sunday Times the Moorland Association’s Amanda Anderson, last seen at the back of the crowd at the Hen Harrier Day event at Edale, was quoted as follows, ‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else. That is why we need…
Joke coverage by Torygraph
The Telegraph’s Senior Reporter, Patrick Sawer, produced a joke piece of news yesterday. Presumably any journalists who know anything about the environment and grouse shooting were at home having a barbecue over the weekend? The article is constructed around the events of 25 July when the RSPB pulled out of the Defra non-plan for Hen…
My first punt at our future agriculture policy
Everyone says that the redesign of agriculture policy post-Brexit is a big opportunity. And so it is. You can make this as complicated as you like, and it is complicated in reality, but let’s start by making it simple whilst not losing the gist of what it’s all about. Currently we taxpayers ‘invest’ £3,000,000,000 per…
Wow! #HHDay2016 and 76,000 signatures
It’s all a bit of a blur at the moment… I left home on Friday lunchtime and have been to Rainham Marshes Hen Harrier Day and The Peak District Hen Harrier Day at Edale. I have heard Charlies Moores speak with passion about being ‘Proud to Care’ and Chris Packham just being brilliant. I saw…
Sunday’s Hen Harrier Day rallies
First off is at Craignure, Isle of Mull at 10:00… … followed by the North West Raptor Protection Group at the village green, Dunsop Bridge at 10:30. RSPB Loch Leven Day 2 at 11:00. RSPB Arne in Dorset starts at 11:00 too. And I’ll be at Edale at 11:00 with Findlay Wilde, Natalie Bennett, the…