Brian Egan General Manager of Rare Bird Alert UK says: ‘Killing Red Grouse for fun and profit is absurd, immoral and has no place in modern society. This absurdity is compounded by the killing of other wildlife, both legally and illegally, to facilitate this fun. The industry of driven grouse shooting is rotten to…
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
Kerry McCarthy MP says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) says: ‘Only a minority of people choose to participate in the so-called “sport” of grouse shooting, which causes the unnecessary and cruel deaths of millions of game birds every year, but their hobby has an impact on us all. Moorland that is burnt or drained greatly increases the…
Terry Pickford says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Terry Pickford, raptor worker, says ‘I definitely support a ban of driven grouse shooting because of the obvious damage this so called fieldsport continues to cause to a wide variety of protected birds of prey on red grouse moorland. These remote heather regions located in the north of England are being managed in…
Peter Egan says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Actor Peter Egan says: ‘I support a ban of driven grouse shooting because I hate all hunting and shooting of wild animals. I’ve never seen a Hen Harrier, other than in photographs, they look like wonderful birds to me. A natural predator, they eat Red Grouse, Hen Harriers are literally being brutally wiped out…
Chris Williamson MP says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Chris Williamson MP (Labour, Derby North) says: ‘Grouse shooting is morally and environmentally unjustifiable and should therefore be banned. It is responsible for the indiscriminate persecution of wildlife, including protected birds of prey, and the mismanagement of our uplands exacerbates flooding in towns and cities.‘ To join Chris Williamson, please sign Gavin Gamble’s…
London: a city divided on the future of grouse shooting
Support for intensive grouse shooting, as measured by numbers of signatures on a pro-grouse shooting e-petition, is concentrated in the richer areas of central London, such as Chelsea and Fulham, and is very sparse across the rest of the capital. In contrast, opposition to driven grouse shooting is spread across the capital’s constituencies, with…
Wales: supporting a ban on driven grouse shooting
Voters in Wales are supporting a ban on driven grouse shooting according to the support for two e-petitions on the Westminster parliament website: one which calls for a ban on this fieldsport and the other which seeks to maintain the status quo. 39 out of 40 Welsh constituencies are showing more signatures for the ‘ban’…
Jeremy Deller says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Jeremy Deller, artist, says: ‘I support a ban of driven grouse shooting. I’ve never seen a Hen Harrier but I’d very much like to – why should wildlife crime continue in our National Parks and beautiful upland areas? And intensive moorland management damages peatlands which store carbon, reduce floods and provide clean water. Why…
We are 23,000 signatures ahead with 2 weeks to go
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The supporters of a ban on driven grouse shooting, are now 23,000 signatures ahead of the forces of conservatism who wish this unsustainable hobby of shooting birds for fun and profit to continue. We’ve pushed on by another 1400 signatures in the last week. But it’s not quite as simple as that, as there are…
Dominic Mitchell says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Dominic Mitchell, Managing Editor of Birdwatch magazine and BirdGuides.com, says: ‘The negative impacts of driven grouse shooting have become alarmingly clear in recent years, and the end is surely nigh for this archaic pastime of shooting birds for fun and profit. Britain is home to most of the world’s heather moorlands but this unique ecosystem…