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Aug 29, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
Black grouse and the RSPB – Part TwoÂ
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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....
Jun 3, 2024
Moorland bird safaris underway in the Yorkshire Dales with over 60 bird species recorded in a single visit
The Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group (YDMG), in partnership with Keld Resource Centre and Gunnerside Estate, have began this year's series...
May 24, 2024
Will Chris Packham defend the RSPCA's seal culling stance?
Many people will be unhappy about the return of wet and cold weather at just the wrong time for fledging ground nesting birds. This is a...
May 20, 2024
Avocet colony at Burton Mere Wetlands is decimated after RSPB’s electric fences fail
The RSPB’s electric fences have failed to prevent an avocet colony at Burton Mere Wetlands being decimated by predation. Despite having...
May 17, 2024
Off-roaders causing devastation on our moors – can nothing be done?
We have received a report from Rooley Moor and Rossendale of egregious, illegal off road activities occurring on the moorland hillsides....
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