Tag: Chris Packham
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Ivy flowers, WordPress nags, a canal journalist, chuckwallahs, Wild Justice, planning, autumn leaves, penguins in prison, a butterfly healer, Hamza Yassin, Hitchens and Fry on the Catholic church, and first fungi of the year
I have often read that ivy is a superb food source for pollinators late in the year but never really witnessed it. But the ivy in the garden this year is absolutely bursting with flowers and literally abuzz with insect life. I think these are mostly hoverflies. There was a white-tailed bee too. I haven’t…
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Rewild the Church (and I Love Yew)
Yesterday evening I spent an hour and a half attending a webinar hosted by Wild Card, “a grassroots movement challenging Britain’s biggest landowners to rewild their land before it’s too late.” They are in co-operation on this issue with the campaign group 38 Degrees. 50% of our land is owned by less than 1% of…
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HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk
Interviewed by the always incisive Stephen Sackur on the BBC’s HARDtalk, the PETA president was magnificent. She was, as ever, calm, assured, and totally unflappable. She gave her answers politely but was never mealy-mouthed. Quietly forceful, never strident. “Animals are not like us,” she said, “they are us.” Her interviewer provocatively suggested that animals do…
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Protect the Wild and the Hunt Saboteurs
Monday was a big day for both. Protect the Wild launched bloodbusiness.info – “A searchable database to help us all make informed choices about our spending” which I have been excited about for a while. It is in its infancy but will grow I am sure and I hope they will include a suggestion of…
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HOWL, the Magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association
Summer 2024 In a nice nod to the film Apocalypse Now, the Chair’s introduction begins, “I love the smell of citronella in the morning; it smells like victory.” Chris Packham is pictured in conversation with a sab on the front cover and the editor refers to him as “the real leader of the opposition, the…
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Chris Packham and the RSPCA
Chris Packham has taken a swipe at the RSPCA, of which he is president, which is perhaps somewhat overdue. I have been saying for a long time and elsewhere in the blog and in my books: “It has been suggested that I am somehow anti the RSPCA, but I’m not. They do a lot of…