Egmondshowe….. The Ness Ceramics….BBC Pics of Scotland…..From ‘Wild Justice’…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:06 on 08 December 2024
Egmondshowe…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/egmondshowe/
We’ve never been to Sanday, so I don’t have a tuppenceworth about it!
The Ness Ceramics….
A very big job to even begin to make sense of them all…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/ceramics-meeting/
This was in m’blog in November ’23….
“Grooved Ware…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/grooved-ware-book/
What can I say, except….this would make a groovy Christmas present for a Grooved-ware enthusiast!
Remember this?.....
It’s big
And it’s Grooved
It was merry hell to move
The big pot
The big pot.”
BBC Pics of Scotland….
29th of November – 6th of December 2024….
Starting to get Christmassy!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8n76rxk2o
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From ‘Wild Justice’…..
“Good morning! In this newsletter we tell you why we are agog about the GOG, provide more information about our petition, promote some other petitions and we opt out of asking for money in #UKCharityWeek.
Tomorrow is GOG day: tomorrow is an important day for rodenticide regulation as the Government Oversight Group (the GOG) meets at an undisclosed location, with undisclosed attendees at an undisclosed time to address an undisclosed agenda. But they will be talking about the failed Rodenticide Stewardship Regime (or Scheme) which was the subject of our recent report, Collateral Damage - click here to read our report.
The current regulatory regime has failed wildlife as exposure to rat poisons is now very high in Red Kites and Buzzards (as shown in our report) and in Barn Owls (others' work) and from what we have also seen, in other species. The GOG should spend their meeting beating their chests in contrition and then setting up proper regulation better to protect wildlife.
We wonder whether they will. This group of public servants has known about the failure of regulation for years and has not acted at all as far as we can see. We have blown the whistle on this environmental issue. If you look at this webpage - click here - you'll find that this group hasn't apparently produced its annual report since January 2020 and that report was spectacularly lacking in information. We'll ask questions of the organisations attending this meeting to try to find out whether any progress has been made. We'll let you know what we find. We're agog!
Our petition to ban driven grouse shooting: is going well and is fast approaching 25,000 signatures which would be a quarter of the way to the 100,000 signatures needed for a parliamentary debate. See our blog for a fuller update - click here.
And if you haven't yet signed, please consider signing today - click here. You will receive a confirmation email and you won't have signed the petition until you have confirmed that you really do want to sign it. This is a good thing as it greatly reduces the chance of cheating but do look out for that email.
Other Westminster Parliamentary petitions: our petition is #10 in the list of most-signed petitions despite being something like the 100th to have been published so we have got off to a flying start. You can scan the list of 220 live petitions at your leisure - click here - but here are a few that caught our attention:
· #11 on the list, and looking like it will overtake ours in a while is a petition calling for an end to the Badger cull - click here
· #14 on the list, is a petition calling for a public information campaign on the climate crisis - click here
· #16 on the list, is a petition set up by Chris Packham to ban fossil fuel advertising - click here
Opting out of #GivingTuesday and #UKCharityWeek: our social media accounts are awash with good causes asking for your money this UK Charity Week which started on Giving Tuesday. We're not asking for your money today or this week - we'd like a few moments of your time to consider signing our and other petitions please. And you can double the value of your signature by persuading your partner, a relative, a work colleague or a complete stranger to sign too. Please give wildlife your signature.
Thank you,
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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