A response from Scottish Green MSPs to our e-action

Over 57,000 e-actions have been taken since Hen Harrier Day, pressing elected politicians to act on wildlife crime and generally on the ecological problems associated with driven grouse shooting. Thank you – it’s an amazing response and I’m sure it has quite a way to go still.

Below I have posted the standard response from Scottish Green MSPs – it’s pretty good and demonstrates engagement with the issue, with the parliamentary process and with the constituent. I’ll post the equivalent from Scottish Conservative MSPs later today.

If you have already contacted your elected politician – thank you! You are one of over 57,000 who have done so.

But if you want to give your elected politician a nudge to act for change then please send them a message through this e-action which is a joint campaign by the RSPB, Hen Harrier Action and Wild Justice. Click here to have a look please. Thank you!

Thank you for writing to me on this important issue.

The Scottish Green Party are committed to protecting Scotland’s wildlife and restoring our natural environment. Like you, we are deeply concerned about the continued persecution of wildlife on driven grouse moors in particular, and the link between ‘management’ of these moors and the illegal killing of hen harriers and other birds of prey.

Throughout this Parliament the Scottish Greens have challenged Government to address this issue, and recently my colleague Alison Johnstone MSP successfully amended a Bill to make mountain hares a protected species. This will, we hope, end the mass killing of this iconic species on grouse moors. You can read more here –  https://greens.scot/ProtectMountainHares .

Alison also raised the continued illegal persecution of birds of prey with the First Minister on the ‘glorious 12^th’ this year, calling for urgent action following the news that yet another Golden Eagle has disappeared on a grouse moor. You can watch Alison’s question here https://twitter.com/AlisonJohnstone/status/1293601009659510788

The Scottish Greens will continue to keep the pressure on for action to protect hen harriers, birds of prey and all wildlife. Thanks for everything you do, and do not hesitate to contact me should you have any other concerns.

Kind regards

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