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…
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RSPB review of game shooting policy noticed by pro-shooting organisations – shock!
I’m glad the Telegraph and Mail noticed something was happening but I suspect they only noticed when a press release from the Countryside Alliance arrived in their inboxes. It’s good to see Tim Bonner at his emollient best: Disappointingly this seems to be the final step in the RSPB’s long journey to becoming an anti-shooting…
The RSPB and game shooting
Saturday’s welcome announcement from the RSPB that they are reviewing their position over game shooting is just that – welcome. None of us yet knows what that review will look like nor what, if anything, the RSPB has in mind might change; but we can guess. First, you don’t announce a review if your attention…
NEWS: RSPB prepares to shift position on gamebird shooting
At yesterday’s RSPB AGM, Kevin Cox, the Chair of Council made the following announcement; There is growing concern about the environmental impact (including for carbon, water and biodiversity) of intensive forms of game bird shooting and associated land management practices. This includes both driven grouse moor management (which involves shooting our native red grouse) and…
Amazingly interesting resource from RSPB
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Where do Hen Harriers travel? Click here to see the answers for many RSPB satellite-tagged birds from the EU (remember them?)-funded LIFE project.
RSPB AGM on Saturday
It’s the RSPB AGM on Saturday – any member can attend the morning event for free (you should register first). I was planning to go, but I can’t – a family event intervenes (which isn’t England v New Zealand or the racing from Cheltenham) so I’m glad that there will be a keen observer in…
General licence consultation – RSPB call to action
Following Wild Justice’s successful challenge to the legality of the General Licences Defra has issued a consultation and the RSPB has asked its members to respond – see here. The RSPB suggestions are eminently sensible although they might need a bit more scientific justification for DEFRA to take them sufficiently seriously. Wild Justice will be…
RSPB on driven grouse shooting
There was an interesting bit on the Today programme yesterday (click here, between 0845 and 0850) when Beccy Speight of the RSPB talked about the State of Nature report (and see here). Beccy did well but then, rather out of the blue, she was asked about grouse shooting and the fact that some people, including…
The RSPB cohort
I was listening to Today this morning to hear John Humphrys’s last programme (and rather moving it was too) and so I caught an interview between JH and the new Woodland Trust CEO, my former colleague Darren Moorcroft. Congratulations to Darren – I wish him every success. But it got me thinking about all the…
RSPB press release
Booming year for Britain’s loudest bird 102 male booming bitterns recorded on RSPB reserves for the first time Bitterns were on the brink of extinction 20 years ago with only 11 males left in Britain. The RSPB is calling on governments across the UK to underpin nature’s recovery with new laws and to ensure adequate…