Great British Game Week ended yesterday. I’m sure it was a great success but on Twitter the top posts were all to do with raptor persecution – there’s an example below.
Well done! To @raptorpersscot, @_robsheldon , @ban_dgs and others for using this social media opportunity to ram home the message that driven grouse shooting is not such a cuddly, clean, sustainable, healthy activity after all. The word is spreading all the time – please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
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I had many an interesting exchange on twitter using the hashtag #GBgameweek. A few feathers were ruffled to say the least.
Peter – I noticed! thank you.
Also important to continue to raise awareness of lead poisoning. Time to make labeling of game on sale to include mention of risk?
Also worth mentioning that Game is defined as “wild” animals. Are birds reared specifically to be released into the wild for the purpose of being shot, truly wild? I think no more than pigeons once released for trap-shooting, but now banned. Curiously of course, pigeons and rabbits which are wild are not always game, but sometimes vermin or pests! Funny old world
So, all game shooting relies on illegal persecution?!….. interesting, yet bigoted view.
Ed – you’re struggling, really struggling.
Mark, to tar 6000+ people on the actions of a minority is I’m afraid a tad bigoted.
I don’t assume all birders are like the disruptive lot at holkham. That would be childish & bigoted. Just Saying.
Grouse moors where illegal acts against wildlife take place are not in the minority. Anyone who thinks so has either got no direct experience of these places or just doesn’t want to listen to the truth…..this post is about grouse shooting, not all game shooting.
First line of raptor persecutions post “the great British game industry. ….”
6000,gosh that’s a lot,about the same as watch a bottom of the table 4th division football match. How many RSPB members are there?
Just saying.
Yes, 6000+ Gamekeepers. basc membership 150k your point?
You are struggling a bit now , do you want to add anybody else? Anyone who has once driven a land rover or worn green wellies?
RSPB one million+ do you really want me list all the members of the many, many other NGO’s who find your antics nauseating. I presume you are aware of the supercilious, arrogant tone of your comment -“your point? Why should I be surprised?As I said nauseating.
Please elaborate on my antics?!…..
I think we can agree ALL illegal persecution must stop. But lets not vilify all gamekeepers….. that is my point.
Regards.
If all in the Shooting Industry who know who the “Bad Apples” are, do not do something about it, then they are Just as Guilty.
Indeed. It may be true that it’s only a “tiny minority” of criminals illegally killing raptors, I wouldn’t know. But by refusing to acknowledge the seriousness of the problem, by constantly denying that it’s even happening, by not kicking out the rogues and handing them over to the police, the entire grouse shooting industry is complicit in these acts. They have it within their power to become part of the solution but by refusing to do so, for decades, they remain part of the problem.