Here is Chris Packham talking to BAWC‘s Charlie Moores to raise the profile of Hen Harriers and Hen Harrier Day:
It’s just brilliant stuff:
‘I intend to go on the day (August 10th) and I hope I’ll be able to speak to people there, and thank them for coming, and motivate them to take more action. And to promote [Mark’s] petition‘
‘The fact is, I think the shooting industry should be slightly worried’
‘The problem with the shooting fraternity is that it hasn’t sorted its own act out’
‘Now they are facing a call, for the first time, to stop a particular sort of shooting. It is audacious’
‘We have run out of patience’
‘We have been robbed of that opportunity [to see Hen Harriers in many parts of the country] by the selfish actions of a minority of the shooting fraternity’
‘I don’t want a gamekeeper to be out of pocket…Please work with us to find an acceptable solution’
‘It’s not acceptable. I’ve had enough. I’ve simply had enough’
‘Now we’re gunning for you!’
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… I *really* want to go on the 10th but alas! No lift, no lift at all. No easy public transport route either. If anyone just happens to be passing the general Calderdale / Halifax area and finds they have too much car space to justify their journey & could be amazingly kind and give us a lift (petrol money ready for you of course) I’d be Very grateful. I am a good back seat driver. I don’t get travel sickness and I don’t leave crumbs. I can provide travel sweets. Or mints, if your a mint person. Or I could just, be very quiet. You wouldn’t even know I was there. Not in a scary way though….
Plea failing OK. Well then just to say, best of luck everyone who makes it! Do the Hen Harriers justice.
You didn’t quote Chris’s comments about yourself Mark but I’m sure you blushed a little! Between you both you have developed a convincing and incontrovertible argument for raptor protection. If Chris’s podcast doesn’t convince people to sign your petition, nothing will. See you on the 10th.
Richard and Lyn.
Richard – I did blush a little. i look forward to seeing you both again.
How does Chris know it’s a ‘minority’? How did a minority manage to rob us of over 300 pairs of hen harriers in England?
I don’t think you could have listened to the whole podcast Bushshrike?
Yes I did. “Pitch soiled by a few rotters”. “Barrel is being infected by a few bad apples”. “Vast majority are not responsible”.
I think the evidence tends to support Terry Pickford’s view that “…most of them [gamekeepers] if they put their hands on their hearts would admit they have killed a bird of prey”.