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5th December - RSPB now delusional on hen harrier numbers
RSPB's upland communications officer, Aran Burton LinkedIn The RSPB are in a state of delusion about hen harriers. The latest hen harrier...
Dec 5, 2024


4th December - Appalling financial wastage by the RSPB leads to widespread job cuts and reserve closures.
In September this year the RSPB announced that sixty of their reserves and widespread staff will likely be affected by budget cuts . At...
Dec 4, 2024


3rd Dec - RSPB made ‘serious mistake’ over ‘liars’ post says Charity Commission
It would seem that many within the RSPB have failed to read the governing guidelines for charities, laid out clearly by the charity...
Dec 3, 2024


2nd December – RSPB CEO, Beccy Speight, claims having single pair of nesting golden plover on the 16,000 acre Lake Vyrnwy is a ‘notable success’
The RSPB AGM is a desperate affair for its audience, and even more desperate for conservation in this country more generally given the...
Dec 2, 2024


1st December - How the RSPB wasted £16m (and counting) on failed Orkney stoat eradication project
It is December time so this year we thought we would take the opportunity to launch our 2024 RSPB advent calendar of failure . Â Over the...
Dec 1, 2024


RSPB lose 59 of 61 tagged curlew chicks after their predation fences once again prove uselessÂ
The RSPB are, once again, proving their mastery at incompetent conservation. Â Their latest abject failure comes in the Forest of Bowland...
Nov 28, 2024


Rural communities take to the streets of London and showcase the best of Britain
Rural communities from across the country descended on London today to protest against Labour’s recent budget and the devastating impact...
Nov 19, 2024


Things are going from bad to worse for the RSPB
Are things going from bad to worse for the RSPB? Following on from the revelation that the charity are proposing significant cuts,...
Nov 14, 2024


We need to keep an eye on the goings-on at the Rothbury Estate
A confederation consisting of the Northumberland Wildlife Trust and the Wildlife Trust (itself a confederation of the UK's 46 Charitable...
Nov 5, 2024


Is the RSPB’s financial ineptitude coming back to bite them?
The RSPB have announced that sixty of their reserves are likely to be affected by the charity’s proposed cuts. A document, understood to...
Oct 28, 2024


Is it time to talk about predator control?
Predator control is almost always an emotive topic. The killing of any animal tends to trigger at the least discussions, if not...
Oct 17, 2024


The latest incoherent rantings of Bob Berzins
It had been a while since we had heard from the animal rights activist Bob Berzins. Having been a regularly mouthpiece of a lot of...
Oct 14, 2024


Robbie Moore MP speaks out on a "lack of feeling of being loved by the rural community" and his concerns about rural affairs being ignored
Robbie Moore, the Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley and the current Shadow Farming Minister (formerly Defra Minister) has spoken...
Oct 4, 2024


New report highlights just how ignored people living in the uplands feel
As we have reported on time and time again on this page, it appears to be almost invariably the case that in the uplands, the people who...
Sep 24, 2024


BBC defending the indefensible over their propaganda masquerading as an impartial documentary
Sometimes even we are still surprised by the complacency and arrogance shown by elements of the BBC when dealing with important rural...
Sep 16, 2024


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 9, 2024


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...
Sep 4, 2024


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 30, 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 29, 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 19, 2024
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