Author: Mark

  Actor Peter Egan says: ‘I support a ban of driven grouse shooting because I hate all hunting and shooting of wild animals.  I’ve never seen a Hen Harrier, other than in photographs, they look like wonderful birds to me. A natural predator, they eat Red Grouse, Hen Harriers are literally being brutally wiped out…

  Chris Williamson MP (Labour, Derby North) says: ‘Grouse shooting is morally and environmentally unjustifiable and should therefore be banned.  It is responsible for the indiscriminate persecution of wildlife, including protected birds of prey, and the mismanagement of our uplands exacerbates flooding in towns and cities.‘   To join Chris Williamson, please sign Gavin Gamble’s…

  Support for intensive grouse shooting, as measured by numbers of signatures on a pro-grouse shooting e-petition, is concentrated in the richer areas of central London, such as Chelsea and Fulham, and is very sparse across the rest of the capital.  In contrast, opposition to driven grouse shooting is spread across the capital’s constituencies, with…

Voters in Wales are supporting a ban on driven grouse shooting according to the support for two e-petitions on the Westminster parliament website: one which calls for a ban on this fieldsport and the other which seeks to maintain the status quo. 39 out of 40 Welsh constituencies are showing more signatures for the ‘ban’…

  Jeremy Deller, artist, says: ‘I support a ban of driven grouse shooting. I’ve never seen a Hen Harrier but I’d very much like to – why should wildlife crime continue in our National Parks and beautiful upland areas? And intensive moorland management damages peatlands which store carbon, reduce floods and provide clean water. Why…