Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting closed at midnight on Thursday and now, with most people who signed before midnight having clicked on the confirmation email, it has reached a total of 33,614 signatures; rather satisfyingly, exactly 50% more than last year’s similar e-petition. Without any practical support from our large wildlife NGOs, we…
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
33,575 (and counting)
33,575* Thank you to the 33,574 of you who also signed my (our) e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. This sends a message to government and the grouse shooting industry that things need to change. You have sent a strong message to wildlife NGOs that there is huge popular support for a much more…
We have a much better plan
If these kids are to see Hen Harriers in the English uplands then we need a better plan than that of the hapless Defra. And we do… …here it is… Ban driven grouse shooting! – please sign this e-petition now! E-petition closes at 23:59, today, Thursday.
We have a better plan
If we are all to see Hen Harriers (like the female above) in the English uplands then we need a better plan than that of the hapless Defra. And we do… …here it is… Ban driven grouse shooting! – please sign this e-petition now! E-petition closes at 23:59, today, Thursday.
This is a damaged landscape
No-one could look across this landscape and see a natural one. It is burned to bits! This management is solely carried out so that there are lots of Red Grouse that rich people can shoot. Grouse moor management leads to increased flood risk, reduced aquatic life, higher water treatment costs, damage to protected habitats and…