LUSH stores spent a week featuring the plight of the Hen Harrier back in August. I was really impressed when I went into several stores to talk to the staff, starting with Martyn and Joe in Northampton and Amy, Grace, Helena, Hayley and Dave in Peterborough. My office still has the aroma of bath-bombs in it!
LUSH’s customers signed 20,000 postcards to bring the plight of the oft-persecuted Hen Harrier to the attention of Her Majesty the Queen.
In a strange coincidence, the satellite-tagged Montagu’s Harrier, whose disappearance was reported on the One Show on Tuesday evening, not very far from the Queen’s Sandringham Estate, was named after the wife of the owner of Lush, Mo Constantine.
Mark and Mo Constantine are offering a reward of £5000 for information leading to the conviction of anyone for the killing of Mo the Monty.
Paul Morton from LUSH said “I can’t believe that just as we were gathering the last of the postcards from our recent campaign to send to Her Majesty, we get the news that another rare bird of prey, a Montagu’s Harrier, has gone missing near Great Bircham in Norfolk…it never ends! Luckily the bird was satellite tagged as part of a larger research project so the RSPB know exactly where the bird was right up until the last few seconds. Birds of prey are some of the most beautiful of any bird in world, I can’t understand what thrill people get from shooting them”.
LUSH’s Ethics Director, Hilary Jones added “It seems it is not a moment too soon that our customers are asking the Queen to intervene in this madness. It is time to preserve our wild heritage with the same respect we treat our other institutions. Our once abundant birds of prey are being Harry’d to extinction and we need to act now before it becomes too late”.
LUSH will be handing the 20,000 signatures over to Buckingham Palace in the coming weeks in the hope the Royal Family take note of these atrocities and help put a stop to this slaughter once and for all.
And thank you to LUSH for supporting our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting which is still gathering signatures and recently passed the 17,000 milestone. Please sign here.
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“birds of prey are being harry’d to extinction”. Not certain the Queen will take kindly to that allegation! But good for Lush anyway…
A really fantastic effort, well done to everyone at Lush!
Now we need more (green) companies to do likewise.
Nick
Great to see a company so committed to helping Hen Harriers.
Fantastic result, public awareness is key to stopping persecution. We keep seeing stories about birds missing, shot, poisioned, trampled etc, how many others are there that haven’t been found or reported. Let’s keep up the awareness!
Thank you, Lush – and well done Hilary Jones for telling it like it is – what an example! And thank you also for the huge box of goodies which turned up on my doorstep the other day – a mystery until I realised it was from the League Against Cruel Sports and I must have won the LACS raffle at the Bird Fair! The bath might be getting a bit more use for the foreseeable future……. More power to your elbow!
Jane – congratulations!
“My office still has the aroma of bath-bombs in it!”
You should try using them in the bathroom instead!