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…
Tag: Natural England
Vicious flying rats
Worcester City Councillor Alan Amos (Conservative) is quoted in the Daily Telegraph as calling gulls ‘vicious flying rats’. Apparently if people behaved like gulls do, then they would be arrested, but then, let us consider, shooting people for pooing on your car is illegal so shall we agree that gulls aren’t people, councillor? Natural England…
Time jerks
Remember that tonight the clocks go back – actually you’d better check that, as I find it difficult to work out from first principles which way the time-change goes (I know, I’m a bit thick). But it’s definitely different tomorrow. I think that changing the clocks twice a year is one of the clearest examples…
Wild Justice asks for apology from Natural England Board
Open letter to Natural England Chair, Board and staff.
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…
East Allenheads needs a Magritte, a stuffed alligator and a helipad
Jeremy Herrmann owns two grouse moors in County Durham and Northumberland (Muggleswick and East Allenheads respectively) which have been mentioned in this blog before – see here and here and more recently here. It seems that one Boris Johnson may well have visited East Allenheads for a spot of grouse shooting in 2015. East Allenheads…
Who are ‘we’?
I read a letter in Tuesday’s Guardian with interest. It was under the name of a former, highly respected, RSPB colleague of mine, Gareth Morgan, who now works for the Soil Association. Gareth’s main point is that radical change to farming is need, presumably including lots more organic farming, in order to have more wildlife…
NEWS: We have been granted leave to appeal brood-meddling
I have been given leave to appeal Hon Justice Lang’s decision that brood-meddling of Hen Harrier nests is legal. The fight goes on! It doesn’t exactly look spectacular online, does it? RSPB has also been given leave to appeal on the same issue. We learned of this by noticing the online decision, as we have…
Those two missing Hen Harriers
News has now emerged about both of the missing Hen Harriers from the controversial brood-meddled nest of this year (see these two blog posts by Raptor Persecution UK 2nd brood meddled hen harrier chick vanished from grouse moor in Yorkshire Dales National Park and Brood meddled hen harrier chick vanished from grouse moor on Bowes Estate,…
Pine Martens in the Forest of Dean
The news that Pine Martens have been released into the Forest of Dean is good news – unless you are a Grey Squirrel (you aren’t are you?). The evidence is strong, and growing, that native Pine Martens see off non-native Grey Squirrels (and where they exist, allow Red Squirrels to recapture the woods) – see…