Blogs

We respond to a recent piece in The Spectator claiming that grouse moors would benefit from rewilding.

RSPB Vice President Chris Packham is presumably unaware that his own organisation has killed 784 crows on their reserves, to protect the nests of vulnerable species, or he might not have been in such a hurry to persuade Natural England to suspend the legal mechanism that permits them, and other conservationists, to do so.

This morning Chris Packham appeared on national television to explain more about his legal action against General Licences, describing the outcry from the farming community as ‘entirely fake news’.

Vital conservation work must swiftly restart before the only place we can hear the call of the curlew is on the radio.

Current farming policy may be imperfect but it has not stopped many committed farmers, from showing that abundant wildlife and commercial farming can go together.