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- Sep 9
Natural England undermined by views of Protected Landscape Partnership official
In recent years Natural England, the executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by DEFRA has succeeded with the almost...
- Sep 4
Losing friends and alienating people: How Stephen Downing’s Northern England Raptor Forum continues to damage constructive conservation
The Northern England Raptor Forum ( NERF ) was established, we are told, to provide one effective voice to represent the conservation...
- Aug 30
Where did the BBC leave its traditional values?
There is a saying in the British Army. It is used when some idiot officer gets control and starts making stupid, often dangerous,...
- Aug 29
MP reports the RSPB and RSPCA to the Charity Commission over Packham's comments
Last week, we reported from Hen Harrier Day at Carsington Water in the Peak District, hosted by Chris Packham and his friends at Wild...
- Aug 19
Packham tells crowd to 'stick their heads in a bucket and set fire to it' whilst he relied upon a huge £5500 generator churning out carbon monoxide
Chris Packham and his Wild Justice amigos caused quite a stir at their little hen harrier day gathering last week when he called on any...
- Aug 15
The Meltham Moor fire was not an accident waiting to happen. It was a manufactured catastrophe
The wet cold spring and summer has played havoc with our upland birds. Rarely has the sun shone and the ground shown any sign of drying...
- Aug 14
Scottish licensing system part of a "salami-slicing operation... aimed at ending all shooting throughout Britain."
In an article for The Telegraph, Alan Cochrane argues that the Scottish licensing system for grouse shooting is "the first of what’s...
- Aug 2
Confusion and disingenuity reigns at the National Wildlife Crime Unit
'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive', so said Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It seems the head of...
- Jul 31
Chris Packham vandalises posters which warned visitors about feeding gulls
Mr Packham, it would seem, is off on his holidays. This week, he has been visiting Cowny in North Wales. Chris makes no secret of his...
- Jul 25
Black Grouse 3: In which the RSPB admit what will really save black grouse...
As was explained in the two previous posts (see Exhibit A and Exhibit B) RSPB has received yet another huge grant from the Heritage...
- Jul 23
Why won't Chris Packham make the ultimate sacrifice for climate activism?
The news that five members of the protest group Just Stop Oil have been sentenced to up to five years imprisonment has gone down like a...
- Jul 18
Black grouse and the RSPB – Part Two
Once we had recovered from the stunning news that RSPB had once again extracted a huge sum of money (£244,000) from the Heritage Lottery...
- Jul 15
If RSPB knows how to save black grouse from extinction, why won't they do it unless someone else pays?
Great news: the RSPB are going to save the black grouse in Wales. To be fair, they obviously aren't – but that is what they say they can...
- Jul 12
Publicly funded environmental vandalism ripe across the Scottish Uplands
Credit: Stobo Residents Action Group So much of what is taking place in the Scottish Uplands is no more than publicly funded...
- Jul 8
New badger video highlights ineffectiveness of RSPB's electric 'predator fences'
A new video has emerged of a badger climbing a fence, reinforcing the ineffectiveness of the RSPB's electric predator fences. The charity...
- Jun 28
With rural policing in crisis, is it right that so much budget is given to bogus bird of prey investigations?
Rural policing is in crisis, a report commissioned by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has shown. Freedom of Information...
- Jun 25
Is everything in disarray at the League Against Cruel Sports?
According to a report in The Telegraph, the League Against Cruel Sports are in disorder after their CEO, Andy Knott, quit “over Labour’s...
- Jun 14
Peak District conservation failures highlight why nature recover funding must be tied to results
The UK is facing a countrywide nature-loss crisis. Many of our most precious animals and plants are still falling in numbers, despite...
- Jun 12
Have the charity conservation sector given up on waders?
We are not given to hysteria. We generally leave the shroud-waving to the likes of the RSPB. They have the resources to do it at scale....
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