On Thursday morning our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will be only six months old and yet it has gathered over 19,500 signatures. Thank you to all who have signed.
I think it is perfectly possible that we will pass the 20,000 barrier by Christmas Day, maybe much earlier, and every added signature sends a message to decision makers that we want them to act on raptor persecution (and indeed the wider environmental damage caused by grouse shooting and its associated (mis-)management of land.
We are in the run-up to a general election that is likely to be hard-fought and narrowly won (that is, if anyone will claim to have won it on 8 May). There is no better time to tell politicians to act for the natural environment and to challenge them to tell you, a voter, what they will do. Election manifestos are being drafted and the electorate can call the shots. This is your opportunity to make a difference for wildlife by making your views heard. That’s why there will be a Rally for Nature on 9 December, the penultimate day of the grouse shooting season.
If you can come to Westminster on that day then please sign up here. If you can’t attend in person, then you can still make your views known by emailing your MP and also by signing this e-petition to highlight the plight of Hen Harriers. Please do something…
‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’
(remark attributed to Edmund Burke)
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Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the Rally for Nature but I have e-mailed my MP. Just for information your first e-petition link is to the closed vicarious liability e-petition not your live one.
Keith – many thanks (and the link is now corrected). Links – the bane of my life! I’d rather have a lynx.
Will be doing my best to go on this rally, will keep you posted.
Have sent a letter to my MP, I didn’t get a confirmation email back, so not sure if it got to Sir Peter Luff MP orbit not?
Regards
Peter