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How Bob Berzins and the Moorland Monitors are 'damaging UK conservation efforts'
Over the weekend the Moorland Monitors released an image to the Derbyshire Times of a dead stoat that had been killed in a legally set...
Mar 2, 2021


Oh what a tangled web is weaved - Patagonia, Moorland Monitors and the RSPB
[Duke of Sussex wearing Patagonia down jacket] The Moorland Monitors released an extraordinary statement last month attempting to...
Feb 22, 2021


How many more wildfires does it need before people recognise necessity of controlled burning?
Another huge wildfire has broken out on Dartmoor in Devon which has illuminated the sky for miles and caused widespread destruction. As...
Feb 12, 2021


Martin Harper, the EU Life Fund, and the indiscriminate killing of pet cats
We recently pointed out that the RSPB managed scheme to eradicate stoats from Orkney was considered by many discerning Orcadians as...
Feb 8, 2021


The truth about cool burns and healthy moors
When the new legislation on moorland burning was announced last week, most headlines tended towards the dramatic. “Ban of heather burning...
Feb 7, 2021


Bob Berzins' latest book presentation 'full of lies and slanders' against moorland management
We've written about Bob Berzins before on these pages. He's an activist and spokesperson for the Moorland Monitors. It should be no...
Feb 2, 2021


Government recognises necessity of heather burning as an essential tool for moorland management
The Government announced last week that it is committed to restoring England’s peatlands and outlined new legislation requiring moorland...
Feb 1, 2021


Yorkshire Dales voted 'top European National Park' with Peak District 4th - yet Kevin Cox disagrees
We need to talk about Kevin - Kevin Cox that is, Chairman of the RSPB. On the 3rd March 2019 the Ecologist magazine carried an article...
Jan 28, 2021


RSPB received £25m in public grants last year, yet they won't release their bird data - wonder why?
[RSPB's lavish headquarters] Let us return to the RSPB's article which seeks to explain to its own members why they think shooting game...
Jan 26, 2021


Moorland councillor allows his personal prejudices to influence his voting
At the beginning of January, members of the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council put forward a motion to ‘ask the government to...
Jan 25, 2021


Moorland Monitors 'Pretend to Distance Themselves' from Luke Steele after threat to funding
The Moorland Monitors today released an extraordinary statement on their website distancing themselves from the horrible criminal, Luke...
Jan 22, 2021


Wind farms killing '20 times more eagles than previously thought', yet RSPB turn blind eye.
Wind turbines are slaughtering millions of birds and bats annually, according to the latest research by a charity group in America that...
Jan 22, 2021


RSPB's policy on controlled burning is 'a tale told by an idiot'
[Wildfire on moorland not managed by controlled heather burning] When Shakespeare gave Macbeth his last words, in the 'Tomorrow and...
Jan 20, 2021


The lessons we need to learn from Norwegian wind farms
A Norwegian sea eagle found dead at the Smøla site. Image: Espen Lie Dahl Fosen, in Norway, is home to Europe’s largest onshore wind farm...
Jan 19, 2021


Wildfires and the death of irony
[RSPB carrying out annual muirburn on Birsay Moor) The Royal Society for the Profitisation of Birds (and any other photogenic furry...
Jan 15, 2021


Moorland photography competition showcases the birdlife of the UK uplands
The winning entry; a short-eared owl, photographed by Peter Curran At the end of last year, with seemingly no end in sight for the Covid...
Jan 12, 2021


Owls, fouls and fools – how ‘set ups’ have become the activist’s weapon of choice
Staged ‘set ups’ have become an increasingly popular tool of activists and campaigners across the country, particularly if they have...
Jan 11, 2021


The RSPB’s hypocrisy and absurdity on windfarms ‘knows no bounds’
Windfarms have been a point of contention for many years. On one level they offer a carbon free source of energy for the world – but at...
Jan 5, 2021


How a vocal minority forced a charity to refuse donations
Anyone who follows not just this page but any rural page or publication would be aware of the attacks and abuse that gamekeepers,...
Jan 1, 2021


24th Dec - The RSPB (in the words of Sir Ian Botham)
Today we thought we would borrow some of the words from Sir Ian Botham's rallying cry in this month's edition of the Field Magazine. The...
Dec 24, 2020
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