Helping tackle the War On Wildlife
Last week many of us (well, many of us opposed to grouse shooting) received an email from Kevin Cummings (or Kevin’s office anyway). Kevin works for the Langholm Initiative (LI), a well-established charity which co-ordinates the Langholm Moor Community Buyout, and the email gave an update to donors to their Crowdfunder (which closed after easily reaching its £5000 target last year).
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Mark Avery, Feb 2020: “Back in 2018 nearly 1000 people supported a legal challenge I brought against Natural England’s decision to license a highly controversial scheme that involved the chicks of the rare and threatened Hen Harrier being taken away from grouse moors in the uplands of England so as to make life easier for grouse shooting. Yes, it’s a daft idea, no Hen Harrier would vote for it and my lawyers and I considered it to be illegal.”
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Oh, the irony. In the week, writes Charlie Moores, that shooting launched its new green vision to persuade us all that it cares desperately about wildlife by declaring – nearly seventy years after laws came into force protecting them – a ‘zero tolerance’ to the illegal killing of birds of prey, look what turns up next to a pheasant shoot: yet another dead Hen Harrier.
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Conservationist and author Dr Mark Avery runs one of the the UK’s most widely-read and influential environment blogs. Guest writers have included politicians, chief-execs of charity organisations, prominent activists and campaigners – and now, writes Charlie Moores, The War On Wildlife Project!
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RSPB Scotland have just put out a press-release entitled, “Hen harrier found dead while two others disappear in suspicious circumstances”. Another devastating day for Cathleen Thomas and her team, for the future of Hen Harriers in the UK, and hopefully a deathblow to the out of control industrialised grouse shooting industry and its lobbyists.
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In this shortcast Dr Cathleen Thomas, Senior Project Manager of the Hen Harrier Life Project, suggests that ‘we need to learn better how to live alongside native wildlife’. [Duration 0:01:08]
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