Natural England is taking forward the West Pennine Moors for SSSI notification in the coming financial year. Hooray! It’s obviously not a done-deal, just an almost done-deal, but it is the freeing up of a log jam that never should have happened. This is very pleasing news and the next time i see someone senior…
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
Two days to go
Just two days to go before our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting closes at midnight on Thursday. After that I’ll write about something else, here, for a while! But it’s clear that this campaign is going out with a bang and not a whimper. Yesterday we added 700 signatures which if we maintained that…
That was another milestone
22,399 was the total of signatures we achieved last year on an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – I thought that was pretty good in the ten months that were allowed for it. That was over 2000 signatures a month – c75 a day – not bad at all, I thought. Today, our similar…
Six counties
It is completely understandable, that on the other side of the Irish Sea, and in an area with almost no grouse shooting, participation in this Westminster government e-petition would be low. However, my e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has been signed and the breakdown of signatures must give more clued-up commentators something to say:…
32,000!
Wow! That surprised me. Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, which will close at midnight on Thursday (so only three days left to get your friends to sign) raced past 32,000 signatures at 22:32 last night. And it was racing along. Makes me wonder whether 35,000 might be possible – probably not, I…