The Hawk and Owl Trust are throwing their support behind the e-petition on the licensing of grouse moors and gamekeepers. Well done!
Let’s see what other bird conservation organisations do…
But you can sign up here – it’s going well, so far.
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Hawk and Owl Trust seem committed bird friendly people,well done to them.
Just back from Egypt. Depressing view of a dead juvenile Black shouldered Kite hung as a bird scarier over a crop. I don’t think this organization [or any others] backed the last e petition by Chrissie Harper!!
That si very true John, although many people who rad this blog did most conservationists, many birders and most raptor workers did. The fact that some did not and no “big ” organisations did is perhaps a question that Chrissie and her immediate backers should ask themselves.
In fact this is a move, which if it ever happened, would be likely to have a much greater impact on the well being of raptors and upland conservation than VL.
One point that has not been made about these e petitions is that if the figure is very low after a year are you playing into the hands of the politicians!! People like John and Chrissie may think they are doing a great thing but they may also be not helping the cause.
John – I think you are talking them down. Chrissie’s e-petition was one of the most successful ones ever on a Defra issue – a long way behind badgers but still very popular. We should be talking them up, not down.
Hooray , I have been advocating this for quite some time . The estates should pay for their licenses too , so the scheme becomes self-funding .
I’m fully behind this petition Mark, but is it going well? I understand that the petition needs 100,000 signatures to be debated in parliament, but it’s still less than 4,000.
I appreciate it still has a year to run, but that’s an awfully big mountain to climb…
ed – it needs 10,000 to get a government response – which hardly any do.
That’s what I thought Mark, but their website says 100,000:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/how-it-works
If indeed it is 10,000, then I’m sure it’s achievable.
Ed – 100,000 may get a full debate. !0,000 gets a response from the Department. Very few petitions get anything like 10,000.
Got you. Thanks Mark.