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Jason Mayhew retweeted
BBC Wildlife has removed red grouse from an online list of “ecosystem killers” after the Moorland Association challenged its accuracy.
The entry appeared on the Discover Wildlife website alongside animals portrayed as destroying habitats. Yet it acknowledged that red grouse were neither invasive nor especially destructive in their own right. It also made sweeping claims about heather moorland, biodiversity, carbon storage and erosion without distinguishing between habitats or management practices.
We complained on 14 October, citing NatureScot guidance and the Scottish Government’s Werritty Review. Two days later, the editor agreed the entry could mislead, removed it and published a correction.
The revised article accepts that red grouse should not be characterised as animals that destroy ecosystems. Moorland management warrants scrutiny, but claims about its effects must reflect the evidence and the differences between sites.
READ MORE: moorlandassociation.org/post…
Jason Mayhew retweeted
‘John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space?’
Business owner Paul Bowen has criticised the Chancellor’s promise to give ‘breathing space’ through measures in his Budget.
#budget #businesses #costofliving
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Is AI going to be the downfall. The energy required to run from what my small readings has shown, it’s huge !!
Is it against what climate change is about
Jason Mayhew retweeted
Here’s some gloriously old school Billy Connolly calling out the politically correct, woke “beigeists”. As he said, “these bastards are in control.”
Watching my wife train her FTCh bitch “ Pepper”.
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Jason Mayhew retweeted
Three bad harvests, input costs through the roof, SFI turned into a scramble, and bluetongue spreading. We’re still expected to produce cheap food and look after the landscape. Something has to give. Stand with farmers or watch more family businesses disappear.
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Jason Mayhew retweeted
Fire chief thanks gamekeepers — where was their invitation?
Gamekeepers helped tackle this summer’s moorland wildfires, earning a letter of thanks from Greater Manchester’s chief fire officer.
But our report questions why they were left out of a Downing Street reception recognising those who fought the fires.
Should gamekeepers get more recognition?
▶ Watch the full Fieldsports News programme: youtube.com/watch?v=ESjI7GYb…
Why do @UKLabour hate the countryside so much .
That was the talk in the pub last night .
Then I realised I had to call my dogs in from a walk
Jason Mayhew retweeted
Labour's minister for the countryside thinks this is a "far Right nostalgic vision of Britain".
Most of us just call it a pie and a pint.
🚨 EXCL: Labour minister claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs, and black labradors are a 'far-Right' fantasy that 'never really existed’
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Jason Mayhew retweeted
UK dairy farmers got 36.89p a litre for their milk in August.
Supermarkets charged shoppers around 75p a litre.
More than double. Same milk. Very different pay packet.
What the farmer keeps of the 36.89p?
That figure is what the dairy pays the farmer, not profit.
Full production costs are around 43p per litre. Extra income from calves and cull cows adds about 8p.
After those costs, the average farm is left with only a few pence per litre - and many make a loss on the milk itself. Top farms do better; the weakest lose money.
This is obviously not sustainable. Where possible please support your local dairy farm! Buy direct, be mindful of the options at the supermarket, and bless our dairy farmers!🥛🇬🇧
Jason Mayhew retweeted
SFI window lasted less time than some people spend queuing for Oasis tickets. Farmers who needed the money most didn’t get it. Again.
Three bad harvests. SFI closed in six hours. Still 25°C in late September. “We can’t ride this storm” isn’t hyperbole anymore.
Buy local, Back British farming!🇬🇧
Jason Mayhew retweeted
We have asked the RSPB whether its published reserve bird records are complete and comparable enough to measure changes in upland bird populations.
Our analysis of available numerical records for 2014–18 and 2019–23 found mixed changes. Some species had higher recorded numbers; others had lower numbers. Missing records, unclear count definitions and possible differences in survey effort prevent firm conclusions about population trends or the effects of management.
We have supplied our analysis and methods to the RSPB and requested fuller data, an explanation of the counts and details of how it measures conservation success.
This work informs our response to Defra’s gamebird Call for Evidence. We believe the same standard should apply to every upland management system: evidence of what it delivers for habitats and wildlife, including the likely outcomes if grouse moor management changes or ends.
Jason Mayhew retweeted
Farms are holding back on reservoirs and other resilience work because it would push the value over the inheritance tax threshold. That’s not planning for the next generation – that’s being forced to choose between the farm surviving the drought or surviving the tax. Scrap the family farm tax in the Budget. In fact, scrap inheritance tax for all.
Jason Mayhew retweeted
Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird shooting asks about effects on Red List species. Curlew has been on the UK Red List since 2015.
That is why we are revisiting evidence we have shared before: a 2023 study found 1.05 fledglings per pair on keepered grouse moors, against 0.27 without predator control.
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