Lethal protection: why does the RSPB end up killing everything it tries to save?
The charity routinely fails to help wildlife or landscapes. Then asks for other people's money to rescue the little nature remaining. There is no accountability.
At a lot of workplaces, there’s someone you can rely on to mess things up completely - it doesn’t matter how carefully they’ve been instructed or how many times they’ve done the task before. Incredibly, they still manage to keep their job.
The RSPB is like that, except it’s not a millennial at a dodgy start-up, it’s a vast organisation with tentacles in all sorts of crevices. It’s the SPECTRE of wildlife charities, with operatives infiltrating political parties, government, law enforcement and schools, like sleeper agents waiting to be activated. Despite this network of apparently-skilled people with access to the latest research and technology, it constantly fails, resulting in species decline and ruined landscapes.
Here are some videos I made while at Fieldsports Channel that highlight the damage, discrimination and dodgy dealings the charity does.
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How the RSPB persecutes gamekeepers, September 2, 2020
Lousy UK newspaper editors routinely copy/paste RSPB press releases about raptor deaths under the headline: ‘Dead (insert species here) found on grouse moor’.
“It’s like saying: worm found dead in garden,” says ornithologist John Cavana. “It’s found dead there because it lives there.” That fact constantly escapes the RSPB, which refuses to release its bird data unless a raptor dies on or near a grouse moor. Then it blames gamekeepers, whether they’re guilty or not - usually they aren’t.
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Difficult questions for the RSPB before ‘virtual’ AGM, October 7, 2020
Why did the RSPB accept lucrative government and National Lottery grants for conservation work in 2020 then furlough half its staff?
Were Devon taxpayers told they were buying the RSPB land and giving it free money because Barratt Homes built houses on a rare bird’s habitat?
Natural England says hen harriers are fairing well on grouse moors. Why aren’t they doing as well on moors managed by the RSPB?
Why has RSPB set up a hotline for people who want to report wildlife crimes, when they should really be calling the police?
Fifteen people were convicted of wildlife crimes in 2019, yet your bird crime report only states the occupation of the one who was a gamekeeper. Why?
Why doesn’t the RSPB want grouse moor managers to control crows and gulls that eat the eggs of rare ground-nesting birds living among the heather?
Why doesn’t RSPB approve of hen harrier brood management when it works? Why does RSPB approve of brood management for other bird species?
Where does the RSPB get all its money from and where does it go? The checks and balances usually associated with large amounts of cash changing hands appear to be missing from your financial reports.
Finally, I’d ask why so many farmers are banning RSPB from their land, but it’s pretty obvious from the way you bully them and destroy their livelihoods.
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RSPB ‘self-isolates’ after demanding gamebird review, October 11, 2020
At its ‘virtual’ annual general meeting in October 2020, the charity threatened to call for a ban on gamebird shooting if moorland managers didn’t do what it wanted, such as stopping controlled burning. It then refused to respond to complaints.
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What’s killing off the capercaillie? January 6, 2021
In the 1970s, there were more than 20,000 capercaillie in the UK. “Now there might only be 1,000,” Ian Coghill told me in January 2021. In 2022, the RSPB, which is in charge of their recovery in the Cairngorms, claimed there were only 542 left. That’s after it was given millions of pounds of public money and grants to save the birds.
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RSPB Geltsdale - a flagship flop, February 10, 2021
The visitor book at Geltsdale - filled in by bird-loving money-donating RSPB members - was sodden and falling apart when John Cavana and I visited in January 2021. Clearly the charity has no respect for its most loyal supporters. With that in mind, it’s not surprising to hear how little it cares about birds either.
The charity took over Geltsdale in Cumbria in the late 1990s and it’s mostly been downhill since. In 2006, the reserve was taken off Natural England’s list of known breeding sites for hen harriers. Two years later, Natural England found it had the lowest populations of moorland bird species in the North Pennines, falling below the managed grouse moors nearby, where shooting continued.
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How the RSPB’s hunt for stoats has became a wild goose chase, September 8, 2021
The RSPB’s Orkney Native Wildlife Project has received millions of pounds in grants - funded by taxpayers - to kill every stoat on Orkney’s islands. However, it’s completely ignoring the greater problem of invasive geese that are killing local birds and polluting farmland and reservoirs, then retreating to sanctuary on the charity’s reserves.
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Part of the reason for the RSPB’s atrocious record is it follows the government’s crazy climate policies instead of questioning them. It’s also switched its focus away from land management, which takes effort, to ‘rewilding’, a form of neglect favoured by people who live in cities and don’t have to see it every day.
Is all this deliberate? A talent for creating worthless wastelands would be useful for anyone who wanted to buy up as much cheap land as possible, like turbine farmers.
I bet this guy knows…
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For more info about this scumbag charity, its criminal behaviour and assault on democracy and the British way of life, read my People’s Plan for Nature stuff.