A whole clutch of constituencies are poised to reach 100 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting and join the ‘100 Club‘ (which now numbers 41 constituencies with the very recent addition of Cambridge, East Lothian and Southwest Surrey) Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 99 signatures Richmond (Yorks) 99 signatures East Devon 98…
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
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
36,000
In the very early moments of this morning our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 36,000 signatures. That last 1000 signatures took longer than most but we are still steaming ahead. Calder Valley 232 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON Ross, Skye, Lochaber 171 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and…
This is not just spin, this is M&S spin
The story so far: For several years this blog, and lots of M&S customers, have been asking M&S (previously run by a keen shooter, Marc Bolland) not to sell Red Grouse in their stores – and so far they haven’t. The production of Red Grouse for driven grouse shooting is environmentally damaging and is underpinned…
…then they fight you and then you win! We will win.
See this piece in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror which is already online. @HuntingSolution is followed by 1000 people – I would just ask them whether they follow this account because of, or despite this type of ignorant rudeness. I haven’t seen a RT of any of this by Nicholas Soames MP and I rather hope he…