Helping tackle the War On Wildlife
A widely-circulated article in The Guardian newspaper yesterday featured a report on a “leaked briefing note” which advised Conservative Party candidates “not to sign up to non-approved pledges on nine key areas” in upcoming General Election debates, but that “supporting shooting was allowed”. Not much of a policy, writes Charlie Moores, for the pro-wildlife voter.
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In this shortcast Nick Weston, Head of Campaigns at League Against Cruel Sports, suggests that the key to tackling the war on wildlife is ‘to speak up and ask questions’. [Duration 0:01:28]
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Surely everyone understands by now the urgency of biodiversity loss and the roles that insects of all types play in the ecosystems that sustain life. Yet, writes Charlie Moores, the level of debate is still ‘jokes’ about vegans and venus fly-traps, contorted references to the EU, half-truths, and gleeful jabs at conservation…
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A recent newspaper report from Scotland titled ‘Illegal hare-coursers threatened to ‘burn down’ Angus farm’ highlighted the ongoing problem with a form of wildlife abuse that was supposed to end with the passing of the Hunting Act 2004. But what is ‘hare coursing’ and what can be done to tackle it?
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Campaigners in the UK are celebrating increasing success against hunting with hounds. As Jack Riggall explains, the anti-hunting community have been forcing organised hunts off more and more land, and reclaiming that land for wild animals that will now be safe [or at least, safer].
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A life-long birdwatcher, John Randall was a well-respected tour leader for many years and has sat on the RSPB Council. He was also notable for his ornithological references in parliament and his efforts to help young birders and conservationists gain access to the ‘corridors of power’. He became a special environment adviser to then prime-minister Theresa May in 2015. He was knighted in 2014, and in June 2018 was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Randall of Uxbridge.
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In this shortcast explorer and film-maker Bruce Parry suggests that we need to ‘learn how to feel and learn how to reconnect’. [Duration 0:02:41]
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European Union governments this week took a major decision in favour of wildlife by widening an existing EU ban on some pesticides to include the powerful neonicotinoid thiacloprid. But what are neonicotinoids and what do they do?
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Nesting birds and the law
‘Trail-hunting’ – following the trail all the way to court…
Petition | Stop Forestry England granting licenses for Fox & Hare hunts
A quick note to Alexander Armstrong
The ‘voices of the countryside’, raptor persecution, and trophy hunting
Petition | Vote of No Confidence in Jonathon Seed
Cambridgeshire | Buzzard shot dead
Petition | Ask Duke of Westminster to ban ‘trail hunting’
Trophy Hunting, Facebook, and Astroturfing
ITV News shows Kimblewick Hunt killing a fox
