Editing Countryside Alliance (section)

==Conflict with conservationists==
The Countryside Alliance has previously expressed repeated concern over the governance of the [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals|RSPCA]], which it argues has resulted in the charity pursuing "extremely questionable activities".<ref name="rspca">{{Cite web|url=https://www.countryside-alliance.org/News/2018/5/Bringing-the-RSPCA-to-heel|title=Bringing the RSPCA to heel|website=Countryside Alliance|date=17 May 2018 |language=en|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> In 2017 the [[Charity Commission for England and Wales|Charity Commission]] announced it would be intervening, complaining that the RSPCA's standards of governance were 'unacceptably low'.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/charity-watchdog-steps-in-after-rspca-chief-jeremy-cooper-quits-082jc20nt|title=Charity watchdog steps in after RSPCA chief Jeremy Cooper quits|last=Kennedy |first=Dominic |date=14 June 2017|work=[[The Times]]|access-date=10 January 2020|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> In 2018, the Countryside Alliance's Chief Executive, Tim Bonner, argued that despite the intervention and recommendations by the Charity Commission, the RSPCA had not changed.<ref name="rspca" /> In a 2013 interview with ''The Daily Telegraph'', the Alliance's executive chairman, Lieutenant General Sir [[Barney White-Spunner]], called the RSPCA a "sinister and nasty" organisation and urged Alliance members to stop donating to it. The RSPCA responded by saying: "Sir Barney White-Spunner's interview shows once again how far out of touch he and his colleagues at the pro-bloodsports Countryside Alliance are with the reality of public opinion in this country."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/10540076/RSPCA-has-become-sinister-and-nasty-warns-head-of-the-Countryside-Alliance.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228004457/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/10540076/RSPCA-has-become-sinister-and-nasty-warns-head-of-the-Countryside-Alliance.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 December 2013|title=RSPCA has become 'sinister and nasty', warns head of the Countryside Alliance |first=Matthew |last=Holehouse |date=27 December 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> The Alliance has also criticised the [[RSPB]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/10119155/RSPB-accused-of-hypocrisy.html |title=RSPB accused of hypocrisy |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |first=Louise |last=Gray |date=13 June 2013 |access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref> and called for the sacking of TV presenter [[Chris Packham]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chris-packham-thanks-fans-after-70000-people-sign-petition-urging-bbc-not-to-sack-him-following-10501470.html |title=Chris Packham thanks fans after 70,000 people sign petition asking BBC not to sack him following calls from The Countryside Alliance |newspaper=The Independent |first=Daisy |last=Wyatt |date=15 September 2015 |access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref>