Two important birds-related news stories broke this week.
Surely, the RSPB would issue press release responses to both with quotes from the chief executive, the head of conservation and/or the head of communication?
These should then have been pinged off to all the mainstream national newspapers and broadcasting outlets.
But no, the society was silent. Did no one in the media department think comment was required?
And where was the RSPB top team?
What the RSPB footsolders are doing on the reserves is superb. Such a shame at the lack of urgency and dynamism in the leadership.
The women who founded the organisation would surely be disappointed at such lack of gumption.
Regards,
Ian.
First and foremost, the press are not always generous with the full facts.
So often, they will pick the juicy bits to sell a story, and given that space is limited for any articles, that also will cast a shadow.
As already suggested, contact the RSPB direct, and see what they have to say.
An interesting observation from my wife many years ago (2016 was the year), she was very ill and off work for almost a year, and with living so close to HS2, it's a field away from our home, she was watching the government reviews and how HS2 were questioned.
I didn't see as much as what she saw, but it was very interesting to observe how the conservation organisations interacted, not as engaging as we'd have liked.
I cannot fairly comment either positively or negatively, because I don't know what the brief for the conservation organisations was, either just to be an observer (I'm sure some reading this will have been invited to sit on local club committee meetings purely as an observer with no voting or speaking rights, I did with my sons and their many activities), or to be actively involved with or without constraints, but it did open my eyes to how determined the government were to get their way with that project.
The sad reality is, we only know what we are told.
regards
John
Unknown said:First and foremost, the press are not always generous with the full facts.
That's the year's understatement!!
Unknown said:The sad reality is, we only know what we are told.
And that, sadly, is so frequently far from the truth.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Maybe some would know more if they had atttended or watched online the RSPB’s AGM over the 7 years like I do.
Unknown said:
Unfortunately you provided something that you have cropped and therefore doesn't actually make any sense.
Here you are from 2018.
https://markavery.info/2018/10/22/more-fall-out-from-rspb-agm/
Its 2023 now , not 2018.
Well have they been replaced. Yes or No. if any member had attended or registered to watch the AGM they night know!. So asked yourself that Bob for any member that registered every year as RSPB members such as myself. And as i said Bob! RSPB MEMBERS! No more comments from me!
For any new RSPB members might not know this. Lots of individual RSPB reserves had there own wardening staff. Now lots of RSPB feserves have the head warden etc covering a large area such as in East Anglia covering more than one RSPB reserve. The Minsmere wardens now cover not just Minsmere but a lot of RSPB reserves in East Anglia itself, unlike degas ago when there where more wardens covering just one individual reserve itself