Standing up for Nature
We are still in Big Match Fortnight – a period where your donation to the World Land Trust appeal to protect a habitat corridor for Indian Elephants will be doubled! But time is running out so this weekend would be a good time to make that donation – it’s a very good cause and a…
The ‘team for nature‘ team (@team4nature300 on Twitter) is worth keeping an eye on. They have a big social media presence but a very low real life profile. They have also been very helpful in promoting our e-petition on banning driven grouse shooting through Twitter and thunderclaps. I know a little about them – but…
I’ll be talking about grouse shooting and appearing on a panel at the Norwich Science Festival – on Friday 28 October. 4-5pm I’ll be talking about why we should ban driven grouse shooting and then in the evening, 7:30-9pm I’ll be on a panel, chaired by Martha Kearney (below) answering your questions. It all sounds…
It won’t come as a surprise to regular readers of this blog that the strongest support for our e-petition for banning driven grouse shooting came from rural constituencies. We’ve known this for ages!! Just looking at England, for example, rural constituencies give stronger support for our e-petition than do urban ones: And this difference remains…
Just as Defra did not submit written evidence to the inquiry into driven grouse shooting – nor did Natural England. The fact that NE have been spending our taxpayers’ money on a detailed study of ranging behaviour and mortality of Hen Harriers since 2002 has not led them to think that they might have anything…