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80,000 signatures and suspending parliament
80,000 signatures is a significant milestone that was passed last night. There are now 19,961 signatures needed to reach the 100,000 signatures threshold. The news that the Westminster Parliament will be suspended on 12 September means, I am pretty sure, that all petitions will close on that date. Which means that we have 14 days…
RSPB Bird Crime report for 2018 published
The excellent annual RSPB Bird Crime report is published for 2018. 2018 seems a long time ago now that we hear of raptor persecution incidents in what sometimes approaches real time. Having a review of the problem to hand is very valuable – particularly if it can be used to bring about significant action from…
Some information on brood meddling
Information recently received through Environmental Information requests – some areas are still to be answered in any detail. But this does show us the identity of the Scientific Advisory Group and formally discloses some relevant information on the brood meddling process. Interesting, I feel, that NE don’t know how much time they have spent on…
We have a rival petition
We have a rival e-petition in favour of grouse shooting (all types) which was set up over a week ago and yesterday passed 3000 signatures. It needs a bit of help from the Chelsea set to get a remotely respectable number of signatures and that help has not yet been forthcoming. When we see the…
78,620 signatures in two weeks – a great start!
I caught myself feeling a bit disappointed with how quickly the signatures for Chris Packham’s petition were amassing the other day – but it is just two weeks of existence and well over three quarters of the way to the hoped-for 100,000 signatures. That is a fantastic rate of progress – let’s not forget. Here…
Another conversation with BASC members
It was the Sunday morning after the Friday evening about which I have already written. And when I say it was the Sunday morning it most certainly was but it was closer to the coming breakfast than the past supper and I was just leaving the bar of a Buxton Hotel, after plotting the downfall…
Ending week 2
It may seem longer, but at 4:25pm or so today we will have completed two weeks of this petition. It would be nice to have reached 80,000 signatures by then but I guess we’ll still be a little short of 79,000. In 2016, when we reached 100,000 for a similar petition in c20 weeks, at…
Please scan this QR code and sign the petition – thanks!
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If you point the camera on your smart-phone at this QR code is will take you straight to the petition to ban driven grouse shooting – then you can read it and decide whether or not you’d like to sign it (please do). We’re on 77,600+ signatures and we’ve not yet completed two weeks. that’s…
Ban driven grouse shooting
Download this poster from here or from Chris Packham’s website, print it out and then display it somewhere, please. At work? In a shop window? At a local wildlife event? I’m sure you can find somewhere – please do. Time is short as there is likely to be a general election called soon-ish and then…