Graeme Bandeira is the cartoonist at The Yorkshire Post.
This morning he tweeted the following:
“Birds of Prey persecution. Finally able to get my talons into a cartoon to highlight this barbaric behaviour and something I feel very strongly about. Birds are being culled in large numbers and NOTHING is done. Absolutely NOTHING. It has to stop“.
Public awareness continues to grow, as does the pressure on politicians to do something about it.
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A good man.Hope it appeared in the Yorkshire Post?
I tweeted all the local papers near me. Bolton, Oldham and Yorkshire asking them to care. Not forgetting the Manchester Evening news. I will keep doing it till they share it.
What a shame the same paper thought fit to publish a pack of lies earlier in the week.
[Ed: To be fair to the Yorkshire Post, this was paid-for advertisement from BASC, who appear to be going towards the C4PMC model]
Indeed it was, Doc. Maybe I should’ve made that clear. That said, the paper still has the choice whether or not to pimp itself out for dirty money.
[Ed: Fair point]
You would think something will come of it, and the Jock’s weill actually do something.
I like the way he chose the ‘humble’ Buzzard.
We can bang on about medicated grit, snares, poison baits, hill tracks, traps, dead raptors etc. etc. ’til the cows come home,but – just occasionally – a picture crops up that says more in a heartbeat, has such power and simply soars above the ‘facts’ for a devastating impact. Made my day. Brilliant.
As small response to all that puff in the Yorkshire post here https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/nature leasd article in the nature section
The picture requires no words to anyone who is normal we need to get them out there so anyone visiting can see them