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On the Inglorious 12th, the opening day of the Red Grouse shooting season, Luke Pollard, shadow DEFRA Secretary said: The government has failed to cut wildlife crime and a decade of austerity has left these birds [protected raptors] vulnerable to poaching, with fewer police preventing poaching and fewer officers able to catch those responsible. We…

Tomorrow is the Inglorious 12th – the traditional start of the grouse shooting season. There couldn’t be a better day to sign our e-action calling for change on the moors – click here to have a look. Many thanks! Over 24,000 e-actions so far (since Saturday).

I’m sure that Nicola Sturgeon hasn’t personally read my email to her about the poisoned White-tailed Eagle found in the Cairngorms National Park (on a grouse moor) but if she had, I bet the bit that would have stuck in her mind would be the analogy that the shooting industry is showing her and the…

You’ve got to give it to the Tories, they are quite efficient and are already sending out standard responses to their constituents about the future of driven grouse shooting. It’s a shame that the responses, presumably from Conservative Central Office and perhaps with some help from DEFRA, are inaccurate and misleading. I have yet to…

Three things, please. Read this: Golden eagle Tom disappears in suspicious circumstances on Scottish grouse moor Watch this: 3. Sign this: https://wildjustice.eaction.org.uk/saveourskydancers Thank you.