RSPB president clashes with his own charity

When it comes to conservation, it seems that not all at the RSPB are singing from the same hymn sheet. Amir Khan was elected as the charity’s president last October, having found fame as the resident doctor on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. Amid media attention around the ‘Glorious Twelfth,’ Khan took to Twitter this week to slam a study on grouse shooting boosting curlew numbers. Quote-tweeting the research, Khan declared:

I’m the proudest of Yorkshiremen – but this kind of crap is exactly what we don’t need in our beautiful county. Grouse shooting brings millions to the tables of a select few and does nothing for wildlife conservation.

Mr S would have thought that more of these rare ground nesting birds were a reason to cheer. But more embarrassingly for Khan is the fact that his claim that grouse shooting ‘does nothing for wildlife conservation’ completely contradicts the views of the organisation of which he is president.