LETTER OF THE WEEK
Following the science benefits biodiversity
It’s good to see the RSPB’s chief executive Beccy Speight taking the time to visit the excellent Flea Barn farm in Suffolk (Can’t we meet in the middle? 5 April). Flea Barn is a wonderful example of sustainable gamebird management operating alongside a commercial farming business, delivering significant biodiversity gains. It’s such a shame that the RSPB cannot bring themselves to endorse the Code of Good Shooting Practice and the GWCT’s Principles of Sustainable Gamebird Management.
If shoots follow the code and the principles then a net biodiversity gain will be the result — that is surely what the RSPB wants to see.