What a fine looking male – Henry anyway! We’d been sussing out filming locations in the North York Moors one day last week and we needed a nice cup of coffee so, by chance, we visited the Milburn Arms Hotel where we did have a very enjoyable cup of coffee. OK, it wasn’t completely by…
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48,000 – put the guns down, walk away from the guns!
Today our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting reached 48,000 signatures. Thank you to all of you who have signed, asked your friends and relatives to sign, supported the promotion of the e-petition financially and helped in many other ways. There has been quite a surge in signatures from Scotland recently and a bit of…
June
It may have been a wet June but the sun was shining on this blog. With a little under 30,000 unique visitors and over 113,000 page views this blog had its second most successful month ever (in terms of those measurements). The most successful was April 2016.
FC England take the lead (out)
Forestry Commission England have done what they said they would do, and from the opening of the deer and boar culling season the vast majority of all such animals culled on FCE land will have been culled with non-toxic lead ammunition. The very small exceptions will be areas where the sporting rights have been retained…
No ammunition?
After Henry’s visit to the Game Fair last year the CLA admitted defeat and ended the CLA Game Fair. This year there are several game fairs on the go but the ‘UK Game Fair’ has fallen by the wayside, presumably in anticipation of the Brexit result. That’s a shame as I was going to…