Royal Mail Scotland plan to ban the posting of guns – Outcry from Gamekeepers

Scottish Gamekeepers claim “widespread concern” among supporters of sporting shooting in Scotland Plans by Royal Mail to ban the posting of guns and component parts from its services would lead to rural businesses closing, gamekeepers have claimed.

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Intermittent Difficulties Posting Comments on to this web site

We understand there has been an intermittent problem when posting comments, this issue seems to have been resolved. However, should anyone still experience any difficulties when posting comments can you please send them to us using the confidential ‘Contact Us’ Link please? Would you also enclose your preferred user name which we will add to your post.

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Voicing our Concern to the European Environmental Commission on the lack of Protection for Britain’s Birds of Prey. Part Four.

We are aware that a number of e-mails have been sent by our readers to the European Environmental Commission concerning the lack of protection for Britain’s birds of prey, in particular upon moorland used to shoot Red Grouse. A reply to those e-mails was subsequently received by a number of individuals from  Monica WESTERÉN  the [...]

Guest Blog – response to Mark Avery by Magnus Linklater

Readers may recall the story published by the respected journalist George Monbiot which he posted on his own blog in response to an article in the Observer written by Magnus Linklater ( a serious critic of raptors) which severely criticised the RSPB’s bird of prey campaign; here is a link to the story featured by Raptor [...]

Buzzards reported killed at Celebrated Lake District House

We have been informed that a game keeper working for the Lingholm estate north of Keswick is about to be prosecuted for allegedly killing Buzzards on this estate. What is more important it appears the estate is currently for sale, or may already have been sold. Because Lingholm is situated in a very scenic area [...]

The Alien Birds have Landed – BBC Radio 4 Broadcast

Radioplayer is a partnership between the BBC and UK Commercial Radio. Together they have developed a player that gives audiences a simple and consistent online listening experience. Radioplayer allows you to discover and listen to live and on demand radio from Ofcom licensed UK radio stations.

The Radioplayer console will pop up to play audio [...]

Voicing our Concern to the European Environmental Commission on the lack of Protection for Britain’s Birds of Prey. Part Three.

We have enclosed a copy of an e-mail reply sent by  Monica WESTERÉN, Press Officer for Environment European Commissioner in response to concerns sent by a number of our followers voicing their criticism of the English Parliament for not doing enough to stop the persecution of birds of prey on the uplands of England. We would like to [...]

The best of Britain! Twenty nature photographers capture UK’s stunning wildlife scenes in land, sea and air

If you follow the  attached link we will take you to some of the most stunning wildlife images taken from ’2020 Vision’, a new book that collects images taken by 20 top nature and wildlife photographers across 20 key British ecosystems (land, sea and air) over 20 months. Just fantastic images which we know you [...]

Brighter outlook for twilight hunter

 

With two sets of chicks, the future for barn owls at the RSPB’s Hope Farm is looking bright this year.

Image: Grahame Madge

 The RSPB’s Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire is this year celebrating a bumper harvest of a different kind: barn owls. Barn owls first nested on the RSPB’s [...]

Wind Farm development threatens the birds of Spain’s Monfragüe in Extremadura.

Spain’s Extremadura region has up to now been free of wind farms, but his could all change in 2013. The chosen site of a wind farm project couldn’t be worse, being located smack in the middle of Monfragüe’s Important Bird Area (IBA). Making matters much worst it is proposed to locate the project only 5 km from the [...]