Julien Burcher

Pictured with the Dean of the Warsaw Bar Association & members of the Association, as well as the brilliant interpreter for my speech. Spoke on stronger ties between lawyers in Europe as we collaborate on protection of lawyers (Luxembourg Convention needs ratification) and the rule of law.

Sorry for a sleep-deprived, brain-dump, so it may be emotional. I'm in Germany visiting Curlew projects and there are so many questions. 🧵🧵👇

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The reintroduction of White-tailed Eagles to Exmoor has been given the green light by Natural England, with up to 20 birds due to be released across the national park from this summer! #birdwatching #birdguides #birding #birds

Another beautiful Honey Buzzard shot in Lebanon is part of a massive ecological crisis: 2.6M birds are poached there yearly. Forced through narrow mountain corridors, these slow-breeding raptors are targeted by illegal shooters for ‘fun’ - wiping out entire European populations.

This White Stork was a straggler shot down in Terbol northern Lebanon, while pushing hard to catch up on a grueling 5,000-mile journey. Tragically, Lebanon’s mountain bottlenecks have become a lawless shooting gallery where late migrants are killed for sadistic pleasure.

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It’s not just that the US Federal Gov’t permits the use of cyanide bombs to maim and kill wildlife at the behest of the cattle industry; it’s that it uses American taxpayers’ money to pay for government people to place the bombs. It’s just disgusting from every angle.

Herons in depressing confluences. Confluences are traditionally seen as the most sacred parts of a river. Herons love to fish at confluences, but there’s something quite melancholy about seeing them in places that are ecologically damaged. Canoeing down the Roding yesterday, I saw one heron in the confluence with the Cran Brook, somehow unperturbed by the 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage a year it’s standing in. I then saw another heron in the gloomy and forbidding confluence of the Loxford Water, where the river has been forced into a deathly concrete tunnel to build a railway overhead.

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Madness

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