The crowdfunder for a legal challenge of SNH’s licensing of a Raven cull has made great progress – over 16,000 pounds and counting. I donated to this crowdfunder on its first day and I’d really like it to meet its target of 25k. So I’ve gone back and given it a top-up from me. Can you help…
Tag: Ruth Tingay
Raven crowdfunder launched – please support
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In a bold but sensible move, Ruth Tingay and the Scottish Raptor Study Group are seeking leave for a judicial review of SNH’s careless and foolish licensing of a Raven cull in Scotland. Please support it with your dosh – I have.
April Birdwatch – wildlife crime special
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April Birdwatch, in shops now, is a wildlife crime special with a guest editorial from Chris Packham, an article on wilful blindness by Ruth Tingay, an account of bird killing in the Lebanon by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter and an article on the work of Birders Against Wildlife Crime by Rob Sheldon. My monthly…
Thank you again – you eco-zealots!
Over the last few years we have been on a journey together. Those of us who are affronted by the scale and impacts of wildlife crime, and/or those who object to driven grouse shooting as an unsustainable leisure activity which is underpinned by wildlife crime, have used a range of techniques that are available to…
An eagle called Fred
Press release: Golden eagle persecution 7 miles from Scotland’s Parliament? A young satellite-tagged golden eagle has disappeared in highly suspicious circumstances in the Pentland Hills, just seven miles from the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. The eagle had hatched at a nest site in the Scottish Borders in 2017 and last June, in cooperation…
Dr Coffey’s reading list (3)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it passed 9000 yesterday) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already…
Bird Fair Day 2 – in the bag
I had more beer, more conversations with nice people and went to some great talks – not all the talks I had planned to attend but a good proportion of them. I missed Mark Carwardine’s talk but got to the joint effort by Chris Packham, Ruth Peacey, Ruth Tingay (of Raptor Persecution Scotland), BirdLife Malta’s…
Hen Harrier Day in Sheffield on Saturday
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…
Guest blogs 1
This post is primarily designed for people who want to write Guest Blogs about some aspect of the natural world for this site. The blog is called Standing up for Nature and that gives you a clue about its focus. I am very happy to consider Guest Blogs for this site from individuals or from…
Dear minister 1 – the status quo just won’t do
Dear Therese Coffey Today I assume that you will close the Westminster Hall debate on driven grouse shooting. I’m just guessing here, but I’d be surprised if you will be signalling that Defra is asking for parliamentary time for a ban on driven grouse shooting. OK, that time will come eventually. But what you really…