OK let’s get back to Hen Harriers. Aren’t they lovely? Those who have been defending or promoting driven grouse shooting find Hen Harriers difficult to talk about. It will be interesting to see how much utter tripe some MPs may come up with in the debate we expect to see over the future of driven…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Everybody wants a debate – bring it on
In a fair piece of reporting, the Daily Telegraph covered the arrival of our e-petition at over 100,000 signatures. That was yesterday wasn’t it – seems ages ago now! Nice photo of Henry too! He’ll be unbearable! Ian Gregory of YFTB, who has done so much to help get us to the 100,000 signature threshold,…
The not-so-talented Viscount Ridley
Matt Ridley and I were friends a long time ago, but we haven’t seen each other for quite a while, and although I would gladly share a bottle of claret with Matt, we might start talking politics, climate change or grouse moors and that might spoil the mood. I remember we had a very good…
Hebden Bridge
Have a look at this article and photographs from the Ban the Burn protest at Hebden Bridge. Good luck to them! Calder Valley remains the constituency with the highest number of signatures on the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – 679 of them as I write. I wonder whether, assuming that we get a…
Bad losers and partly to blame
It was bound to happen – the internet trolls are claiming that the recent rush of signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has been fraudulent in some way. Ho, ho ho! There certainly has been a rush of signatures, and the speed of growth of the e-petition has taken me by surprise…