116,000+ signatures

We’ve passed 116,000 signatures and as I go to sleep we are close to 117,000. Woohoo!!! Here’s a list of all the constituencies over 350 signatures: Calder Valley 741 High Peak  538 Ross, Skye and Lochaber  493 Bristol West  485 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey  459 Derbyshire Dales 450 Sheffield Central  429 Skipton and Ripon…

Henry at the Bird Fair – more

‘Beautiful plumage Jim!’ – says Henry to the man who commissioned Inglorious And then Henry gets in amongst the artists, starting with Keith Brockie, who knows his birds… …and on to Carry Akroyd… …and then to Darren Woodhead who knows a harrier when he sees one. Henry wanted to thank Lush boss, Mark Constantine for…

Leaflets – a massive thank you.

At the Bird Fair, over 11,000 leaflets were taken away for delivery around the country (certainly England and Wales). I’m grateful to those of you who will be walking the streets and delivering these leaflets over the next few weeks – thank you and every signature counts. I met karl (sic) and Dave at the…

Compare and contrast

Charles Moore in the Spectator, ‘It would be wearisome (not least because Matt Ridley’s piece last week set it all out so well) to go through how most such accusations about the killing of hen harriers are false, how hen harriers do better on kept moors than on unkept ones…‘ Prof Rhys Green and Brian Etheridge:…

Congratulations to SRSG

The Scottish Raptor Study Group-led petition for better regulation of gamebird shooting closed at midnight last night at 7216 signatures – but there will be other paper signatures (some from the Bird Fair) that can be added to that total so we are looking at a 7500+ total. Well done! I hope that the Scottish…