Charity groups 'playing with fire' after deliberately misleading MPs on heather burning
[Gamekeeper showing how peat remains wet following controlled cool heather burning] Charity groups have been accused of playing with fire...
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Oct 21, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
There is now little difference between the RSPB and the League Against Cruel Sports
The picture above was taken in 2015, and what it shows is fairly obvious. The man on the left is Joe Duckworth, then-CEO of the League...
Oct 15, 2020
Making Manchester carbon neutral – or destroying vital carbon sinks?
Peat bogs such as these are vital carbon sinks It’s not only as a big name nationally that it’s beneficial for the RSPB to have him on...
Oct 12, 2020
Upland communities accuse RSPB of pushing fake news over rotational cool burning of heather moorland
Recently the RSPB tweeted, “There really is no scientific or moral justification for burning our peatlands... so why is it still...
Oct 9, 2020
Andy Burnham 'made to look foolish' by the RSPB after being fed misinformation
[Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, was likely fed wrong information by the RSPB] The recent press release, sent out by RSPB is something...
Oct 8, 2020
Despite having reserves of £227 million, data shows the RSPB furloughed over 1,100 people
FieldSports TV today published the findings of their investigation which revealed the true extent of the RSPB's colossal wastage. As...
Oct 7, 2020
Millions of tonnes of carbon released from preventable wildfires on RSPB managed land
[Aftermath of yet another wildfire - Kara Simpson/Thurso Fire Station] Our regular readers will recall our discovery that the RSPB was so...
Oct 6, 2020
To protect the environment we must prevent moorland wildfires
[Without controlled heather burning you get environmentally devastating wildfires] Controlled heather burning is being talked about a lot...
Oct 3, 2020
Channel 4 news report reinforces value of grouse shooting on environment and local economy
Last night's Channel 4 news report on grouse shooting proved three key points that those living in our moorland communities already knew,...
Oct 2, 2020
The Royal Society for the Politicisation of Birds
The RSPB's Director of Global Conservation, Martin Harper, has been allowed great freedom by the Trustees of that huge and rich...
Sep 30, 2020
Beccy's ban on controlled burning would be 'utterly demonic' and risk thousands of lives
Tomorrow the RSPB are set to continue their two-pronged attack on grouse shooting and the moorland communities that rely upon the £67...
Sep 29, 2020
BBC’s bias is damaging farming’s reputation - Farmer's Weekly
The agenda driven, truth-distorting, campaigning of Chris Packham has long been considered the clearest example of the BBC's failure to...
Sep 28, 2020
More taxpayers money for less wildlife - the lessons of unmanaged moorland, RSPB style
Some ask why we write about the colossal wastage of taxpayers money each year by the RSPB and certain other charitable organisations. It...
Sep 25, 2020
New study highlights the social and health benefits of shooting
The decision to exclude shooting from the “rule of 6” caused uproar in various circles, with some accusing the government of creating...
Sep 24, 2020
Natural Resources Wales give 'sickeningly excessive' grants to RSPB, including to refurbish toilets
Some people within the Welsh government have proved extraordinarily generous friends of the RSPB and are happy, indeed keen, to give the...
Sep 22, 2020
‘Lockdown Lammergeier’ leaves the Peak District
After much hype it appears that the "Lockdown Lammergeier" – or the Bearded Vulture as it has been known - has decided to leave the...
Sep 21, 2020
RSPB's statement to Farmers Guardian highlights further conservation failures at Lake Vyrnwy
The RSPB are upset by the suggestion that their stewardship of the vast estate at Lake Vyrnwy in mid-Wales may be less than perfect and...
Sep 16, 2020
C4PMC: Grouse shooting and the Covid exemption
When it was announced on Monday that grouse shooting, along with hunting, was to be exempt from the latest ‘rule of 6’ Covid laws, the...
Sep 14, 2020
A new approach to conservation needed as trust in RSPB from rural England is 'irrevocably broken'
Today the RSPB called on the UK Government to back ambitious global goals and national legally binding targets to restore species and...
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