Sir Ian Botham’s attack on the leadership of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has drawn a massive response from Mail on Sunday readers, who say they feel ‘betrayed’ by an organisation they have backed for years. The England cricketing legend, who fronts You Forgot The Birds, a new grassroots campaign, wrote a devastating open letter to the charity in The Mail on Sunday last week. A small selection of the postbag received by this newspaper in response is reproduced below. One reader said that having joined the RSPB as a founder member aged 16, he was now resigning. Another said she was also quitting because of the charity’s decision to install a wind turbine near its reserve in Bedfordshire.
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England cricketing legend, who fronts campaign You Forgot The Birds, wrote open letter to charity last week
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Attacked RSPB's leadership after decision to block measures to help one of the country's rarest birds, the hen harrier
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Mail on Sunday readers wrote in to say their feel 'betrayed' by an organisation they have backed for years
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A small selection of the postbag received by the Mail on Sunday is reproduced below
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More and more people are realising that the hen harriers’ biggest enemy is the @placeholder – not rogue gamekeepers.’