BY BERT BURNETT How much longer does the British Countryside have to put up with propaganda attacks from liars? It’s bad enough having weekly potshots from outliers like Chris Packham and George Monbiot. Now, having their former paymaster the BBC supporting the outlandish instead of checking facts, makes rural licence fee payers furious. Take a recent BBC Wildlife opinion piece by Mark Carwardine which paints … Continue reading Moor Misrepresentation
BY BERT BURNETT Loch Lomond was once a stronghold for capercaillie but thanks to RSPB type management where nature takes its own course the capercaillie is now gone forever. It has been suggested for years that the way to bring back capercaillie is to rear and release but RSPB have effectively blocked any attempts for this to happen. They encourage releases with so many other … Continue reading The RSPB Works in Mysterious Ways
BY IAN COGHILL Back in August I failed to notice that Steve Carver had written a lengthy attack on my book Moorland Matters, using Country Squire Magazine’s ‘right to reply’. He started with a complaint that the oft repeated claim that the UK holds 75% of the world’s heather moorland is incorrect and that saying that there is less heather moorland in the world than … Continue reading Moorland Does Matter
