We’re still on Day 2 and the e-petition calling for a ban of driven grouse shooting is over a third of the way towards a Westminster Hall debate. Here’s a map of where those signatures come from; Here are constituencies with 100+ signatures already: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP (SNP), 209 signatures…
BLOG POSTS
Lots of signatures
Twenty-eight thousand signatures in just over 24 hours – Wow! I’m not entirely sure why this is going so strongly – except that there are obviously at least 28,500 very sensible people out there. If I were a politician I would have noticed this initial very strong start (in the holiday period, too) and begin…
Paul Leyland – Cistogaster globosa
Paul writes: If this was a bird, rather than a fly, I would expect to look out of my kitchen window and see half a dozen people with scopes and binoculars walking up and down the field path, all hoping to add to their Yorkshire List. As it is, flies are not so sought after….
This…
Please sign and share this new e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting. The petition was submitted by Chris Packham on behalf of Wild Justice on 4 July and got the requisite five signatures to go into the system on 5 July. Quite why it has been stuck in the system for nearly six…
Hen Harrier Day from Wild Justice
Wild Justice has produced three blogs, so far, on the Hen Harrier Day event on Sunday. Here they all are (more coming later): HHDay 2019 (1) HHDay 2019 (2) HHDay 2019 (3)
Hen Harriers are tops!
Comments Off on Hen Harriers are tops!
It’s just not cricket…
The Inglorious 12th
Intensive grouse shooting is in the news like never before: Natural England Chair, Tony Juniper, calls for vicarious liability for wildlife crimes (as did his predecessor of course – but this time it is at the beginning of his tenure and not at the end)(see Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times) Labour calls for review of…
Inglorious Debate by Gill Lewis
Gill Lewis is an author (see here and here) and spoke at yesterday’s Hen Harrier Day event (and see here). The Glorious Twelfth is the best day of the year. It just simply isn’t true to say Driven grouse shooting is underpinned by wildlife crime And that the intensive burning of the moors is damaging…
Hen Harrier Day 2019
Attendance: 1500+ What a day! More later…