In 1999, Rob had his first letter published in The Times. 122 on, he hasn’t stopped bothering them on environmental issues (usually those others tend to sidestep) See this blog on his thinking and pointers on letter writing
This retrospective (via his Twitter handle @blackgull under a hashtag #blackgullview) provides the correct date order. Below is gradually being ordered
- On sea eagles,
- farmland wildlife
- National Parks US-style rangers
- wildflowers and The Archers
- Rural housing challenges. Times letter headlining ‘The Week’
- Farming challenge post Brexit
- Little owls and storm petrels (102nd) Jan 15
- Times letter Sir Peter Scott’s love of nature
- Indoor cows
- Hedgehogs ‘fiddling in gardens’
- Two early letters (fox hunting) from 2000
- Racetracks and skylarks
- Farmers and flooding
- Ecosystems and food – farming is the new challenge
- Urban foxes
- Spinning nature for members
- Songbirds
- Conifers and turbines
- Bracken control
- Food and State of Nature
- Ash die back (1 of 5)
- Badger cull and moles
- GM and butterflies
- Culling deer
- Unaffordable food
- Conservation grazing
- Dairy rich diets
- Horsegate
- Insects, benzene, bees and neonics
- Letters ‘triggered’ by Simon Barnes – re grouse shooting, gamekeepers, food prices and biodiversity offsetting
- 100th Times letter (trees and fungi)
- Carluccio’s mushroom letter
- Stop being fussy over trees A conversation thread.
- On farming, forestry, hedgehogs, rural housing
- On red kites, farming
- On woodcock
- More being uploaded (122..)