I know many of you have spent months refreshing your browsers to check on the progress of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. So have I. We can all do it a little less often now as we have crossed the magic 100,000 signature barrier which should deliver us a debate in the Westminster…
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
Leaflets at the Bird Fair
Just because we have passed the 100,000 signature mark doesn’t mean that handing out leaflets to friends and family and work colleagues, or putting them through letterboxes, isn’t still worthwhile. If anything, knowing that the Petitions Committee will sit on 6 September makes that our new deadline for maximising the number of signatures. If you…
House of Commons Petitions Committee
These are the MPs who will decide whether or not our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, which passed 100,000 signatures yesterday, the 13 August (the day after the Inglorious 12th), will be debated. They next meet on 6 September so the more signatures we can amass by then, the better. Are any of you…
Those awkward Hen Harriers
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…
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,…