Thank you! Please keep tweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. The Ban Driven Grouse Shooting Facebook page is clearly helping to boost signatures in these last few days. Just today, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and at least part of Thursday to go! If you had a guess at how many signatures our e-petition to ban…
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
Hen Harriers need your help
Hen Harriers can’t fight back! They need your help. In 2015 there were only six successful Hen Harrier nests in England – and that was a better year than many recent ones. There should be c330 pairs of Hen Harrier nesting in England in upland areas such as the Peak District, the North York…
Natalie Bennett calls again for ban on grouse shooting
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After visiting Walshaw Moor and the flood-hit town of Hebden Bridge, Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, reiterated her party’s call for a ban on grouse shooting. Bennett was reported in the Daily Telegraph as saying that intensive grouse moor management is ‘incompatible with 21st-century needs of flood prevention‘ and called it a ‘conservation disaster‘. She…
And thank you Scotland!
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Thank you to all those in Scotland who have signed the e-petition on the Westminster government website calling for a debate to ban driven grouse shooting. We’ll do the same for you if you need it! We see the usual pattern of signatures in Scotland – many more in rural areas than urban ones, and…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
There are just six days left to sign our successful e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Ask your friends on Twitter, Facebook and in real life! Although the ills of driven grouse shooting are far wider than just wildlife crime directed at birds of prey such as Hen Harriers, systematic illegal persecution of birds of…