Grumpy Old Birder #40 – The No Show Man
“…the warm water running down my face, wasn’t – it was a red liquid better kept inside my inner tubes…” Bo Beolens, the Fatbirder, was meant to give a talk at the recent Scottish Birdfair but didn’t make it further than south-east England. Here he explains – with a poignant honesty – exactly wh ...
Caught – the evil business of snaring
Talking Naturally was at the House of Commons yesterday for the launch of a campaign by the League against Cruel Sports (League) to ban the use of snares – wire nooses used to (supposedly) just restrain target species until they can be humanely killed, but which often garrottes them, slices them through to the bone, and which routinely catch ...
Book Review: Britain’s hoverflies
Many years ago – when there were only birds and no other forms of wildlife existed – I used to go to Portland Bird Observatory almost every weekend. Set on a large chunk of rock jutting into the English Channel the ‘Obs’ was like a second home, and it was where I saw such exciting migrants and vagrants as Ortolan, Golden Oriole, Eastern Olivaceous ...
TN111 Interviews from ‘Gunning for Change’ April 2013
The League against Cruel Sports held a very successful Symposium on the Shooting Industry and Firearm Licensing, in Central Hall, Westminster on Thursday 25th April. ‘Gunning For Change’ turned the spotlight on the cruelty, the welfare issues, and the environmental damage inherent in an industry that depends on the import of non-native ...
Malta 2013: ‘Hunters’ gun down another Pallid Harrier
Malta has European permission to hunt Turtle Doves and Quail? Malta’s hunters behave responsibly? Malta’s hunters are conservationists? Malta’s hunters abide the law? No. Utter, utter nonsense. The truth? Many of Malta’s ‘hunters’ are macho thugs who – with what almost seems to be government encouragement & ...
Universal Society of Hinduism urges tourism boycott of Malta
Press-release from Rajan Zed, Universal Society of Hinduism, 26 April 2013 Hindus urge Malta tourism boycott if it failed to curb illegal bird hunting Expressing shock at the reported illegal spring bird hunting and trapping in Malta, Hindus have urged immediate intervention of European Union (EU). Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement ...
How bad is illegal hunting in Malta? Send in the troops…
Where in Europe could the allowing of so-called ‘legal spring hunting’ (a misnomer in the first place) and already ridiculously high quotas be so massively taken advantage of (just as massively predictable) and so widely exploited by gangs of out of control hunters that a panicking government has to mobilise troops in an effort to be se ...
Malta: Conservation the FKNK way…
Press-release from BirdLife Malta concerning the FKNK, Malta’s vociferous hunting organisation which attempts (like so many hunting organisations across the world) to offset its destructive activities by calling itself a ‘hunting and conservation’ group. The FKNK’s particular brand of conservation is well illustrated here &# ...
Gunning For Change: A Symposium on the Shooting Industry and Firearm Licensing
Talking Naturally will be recording vox pops and short interviews with attendees and delegates at the League against Cruel Sports’ symposium this coming Thursday. We’re part of the official social media output, and we’ll be making everything we record (once it’s been edited up of course) available to the League as well as up ...
TN110 Malta – answering the hunters
A conversation with guests Nik Barbara, BirdLife Malta’s conservation manager, Lawrie Phipps, a Trustee with the League against Cruel Sports and a conservationist who has been to Malta several times to support BirdLife Malta’s work, and Joe Cockram, a life-long birdwatcher and wildlife guide with a degree in Ecology and Wildlife Conservation. Like ...
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Universal Society of Hinduism urges tourism boycott of Malta
Press-release from Rajan Zed, Universal Society of Hinduism,
How bad is illegal hunting in Malta? Send in the troops…
Where in Europe could the allowing of so-called 'legal
Malta: Conservation the FKNK way…
Press-release from BirdLife Malta concerning the FKNK, Malta's vociferous
Gunning For Change: A Symposium on the Shooting Industry and Firearm Licensing
Talking Naturally will be recording vox pops and short
Spring hunting derogation not limited, not controlled and therefore not legal!
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Malta’s ‘law-abiding’ hunters gun down a Pallid Harrier
Lobbyists for Malta's motley collection of 'legal' hunters routinely
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