Sir Ian Botham leads campaign challenging the RSPB

On 24th October 2014 the Daily Mail reported: "A group of landowners has accused Britain's biggest nature charity of misleading donors over how it spends its money.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds claims to spend 90 per cent of its income on conservation work. But the landowners – led by former cricketer and keen shot Sir Ian Botham – said the charity was more interested in political lobbying than protecting wildlife. Sir Ian, who runs a commercial shoot at his home in North Yorkshire and is one of the leaders of the You Forgot The Birds campaign, said: 'It is a massive bureaucracy where donations are spent on homes for office workers not homes for birds. Read more here.