If you are running a campaign then your aim is to achieve change in the world, change on the ground, change in reality. One of the most direct, though not particularly easy, routes to achieving widespread change is through influencing the action of governments as they control laws, regulations, enforcement, taxation and government spending. Petitions…
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Reflections is two years old today
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I know I’m a tad biased, but I do think this is a good book and it’s just as good to read now as it was two years ago on publication day. The idea, launched in this book, of being a conservation investor rather than a ‘member’ or ‘supporter’ is a lasting one and many…
Cornwall
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Last week I headed to Cornwall. Cornwall is a long way away. It’s a long way away from everywhere (except west Devon) and even those in Cornwall think that west Cornwall is far from east Cornwall. I gave a talk to the the Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society – click here – and I…
RSPB press release – Number of Hen Harriers killed or missing reaches new high
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Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing according to a new report from the RSPB. Most of these incidents have occurred on or near grouse moors in northern England. The RSPB is calling on the Westminster Government to introduce licensing of grouse shooting in…
A letter to my MP, Lee Barron
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Dear Lee, I am writing to ask you to attend a Westminster Hall debate on the afternoon of 30 June where a parliamentary petition will be debated as the petition gained over 100,000 signatures. It is a petition close to my heart, indeed I was one of the three directors of the campaigning group, Wild…
Wild Justice advert in the Guardian
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Cartoon by Edith Pritchett
English Hen Harrier population increase modelled – brood meddled nests not a factor
A recent BTO report – click here – comes to the unsurprising conclusion that brood meddling of Hen Harrier nests made little or no contribution to the recent rise and fall of the Hen Harrier breeding population. As was predicted in advance, brood meddling is a distraction and an irrelevance. The drivers of the steep…
RSPB makes big move at Geltsdale
The RSPB is extending its ownership of land at Geltsdale in Cumbria and appealing for donations to secure the deal – click here. This is very good news. The emphasis of the RSPB text is on habitat restoration and the graphic produced is excellent – although the day I ever see all those species at…
WWF and the Polar Bears
The recent Guardian story about WWF facilitating the trade in Polar Bear skins – click here – is in many ways, not news. It’s not news because I can’t see anything new in it. The fact that WWF has supported trophy hunting of several species whilst arguing for their conservation, and using images of them…
New petition about windfarms on peat soils
Press release from ‘Stronger together to stop Calderdale Wind Farm’: PARLIAMENTARY PETITION LAUNCHED TODAY CALLS FOR A BAN ON BUILDING WIND FARMS ON PROTECTED PEATLAND Today sees the launch of a petition that calls on Parliament to amend onshore wind planning regulations by banning wind farms on protected peatland in England. 100,000 signatures will…